The Early Archaic Period is little understood in the far Northeast(New York and New England). For many decades the one certain diagnostic Early Archaic style have been the various bifurcate base types. However, early side notched, which may or may not be related to or influenced by Coe's Hardaway Side Notched and Hardaway-Dlaton are found in the Northeast, as are early corner notched(Kirk Corner Notch). Although this is known to be the case, the fact remains that in the far Northeast, the Paleo Period is in fact better understood then the Earliest Archaic Period.
In the Southeast, the Early Archaic is much better understood, thanks in large part to Coe's work establishing an Early Archaic point sequence in North Carolina.
Coe's description of the Hardaway-Dalton:
http://www.coe-foundation.org/conten...ay_dalton.html
Coe's description of Hardaway Side Notch:
http://www.coe-foundation.org/conten...e_notched.html
From the Maryland typology page:
http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/Mar...denotched.html
In the Northeast, the use of the type name Hardaway Side Notch for certain early side notch forms found there is controversial. This is discussed by Daniel Forrest in an article in the Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut entitled "Beyond Presence and Absence: Establishing Diversity in Connecticut's Early Holocene Archaeological Record":
Excerpt:
"Atlantic Slope Tradition sites share a common bifacial chipped-stone technology. Points associated
with the earliest unambiguous manifestation of this tradition in the Northeast include Hardaway, Palmer,
and Kirk comer-notched forms initially defined in the Carolinas (Coe 1964). Northeastern examples may
be contemporaneous with their southern namesakes, placing them between 9600 and 8500 BP (Funk 1996:
13). Securely dated examples are scarce, however, and many researchers have expressed reservations about
equating these isolated tools with the well-defined types to the south (Snow 1980: 163-166; Moeller 1984).
Dated, or not, Hardaway, Kirk, and Palmer points are exceedingly rare in New England and adjacent
areas. A handful have been recovered from the Richmond Hill and Johnsen No.3 sites in New York
(Funk 1996), and several sites in the Robbins Swamp Basin in northwestern Connecticut (Nicholas 1988:
272-273). Slightly younger Piedmont Tradition sites are more common and more easily characterized.
Sites dating between 8600 and 7800 BP typically contain relatively numerous expedient stone tools,"
It is apparent that not all researchers working in the northeast are comfortable using Coe's type name Hardaway Side Notch for early side notches in the Northeast. Nonetheless, the type name is often used. In the revised edition of his 2008 New England typology, the late Jeff Boudreau of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society created an entry for Hardaway Side Notch in which he illustrated the 15 examples from New England that he was aware of to that point in time. They are extremely rare in New England. The example shown closest to Coe's Hardaway Side Notch would easily pass as just that if found in North Carlolina. Other examples shown were more remindful, more in the nature of hints, by virtue of deeply concave bases, re curved into delicate ears slightly upturned, of Hardaway Side Notch. Not difficult to see why some do prefer Hardaway-Like or simply Early Side Notch until a formal name is erected for this early Northeastern style. Whether or not influenced by the Hardaway tradition further south, these points are the origin of the side notch tradition in the Northeast.
In the Southeast, the Early Archaic is much better understood, thanks in large part to Coe's work establishing an Early Archaic point sequence in North Carolina.
Coe's description of the Hardaway-Dalton:
http://www.coe-foundation.org/conten...ay_dalton.html
Coe's description of Hardaway Side Notch:
http://www.coe-foundation.org/conten...e_notched.html
From the Maryland typology page:
http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/Mar...denotched.html
In the Northeast, the use of the type name Hardaway Side Notch for certain early side notch forms found there is controversial. This is discussed by Daniel Forrest in an article in the Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut entitled "Beyond Presence and Absence: Establishing Diversity in Connecticut's Early Holocene Archaeological Record":
Excerpt:
"Atlantic Slope Tradition sites share a common bifacial chipped-stone technology. Points associated
with the earliest unambiguous manifestation of this tradition in the Northeast include Hardaway, Palmer,
and Kirk comer-notched forms initially defined in the Carolinas (Coe 1964). Northeastern examples may
be contemporaneous with their southern namesakes, placing them between 9600 and 8500 BP (Funk 1996:
13). Securely dated examples are scarce, however, and many researchers have expressed reservations about
equating these isolated tools with the well-defined types to the south (Snow 1980: 163-166; Moeller 1984).
Dated, or not, Hardaway, Kirk, and Palmer points are exceedingly rare in New England and adjacent
areas. A handful have been recovered from the Richmond Hill and Johnsen No.3 sites in New York
(Funk 1996), and several sites in the Robbins Swamp Basin in northwestern Connecticut (Nicholas 1988:
272-273). Slightly younger Piedmont Tradition sites are more common and more easily characterized.
Sites dating between 8600 and 7800 BP typically contain relatively numerous expedient stone tools,"
It is apparent that not all researchers working in the northeast are comfortable using Coe's type name Hardaway Side Notch for early side notches in the Northeast. Nonetheless, the type name is often used. In the revised edition of his 2008 New England typology, the late Jeff Boudreau of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society created an entry for Hardaway Side Notch in which he illustrated the 15 examples from New England that he was aware of to that point in time. They are extremely rare in New England. The example shown closest to Coe's Hardaway Side Notch would easily pass as just that if found in North Carlolina. Other examples shown were more remindful, more in the nature of hints, by virtue of deeply concave bases, re curved into delicate ears slightly upturned, of Hardaway Side Notch. Not difficult to see why some do prefer Hardaway-Like or simply Early Side Notch until a formal name is erected for this early Northeastern style. Whether or not influenced by the Hardaway tradition further south, these points are the origin of the side notch tradition in the Northeast.
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