JMAA #1 (1985, 116pp)

• President's Message, Dennis C. Curry
• "Authors Should Endeavor to Eschew Obfuscation" and Other Comments by the Editor, Roger W. Moeller
• A Cultural Synthesis of the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, Part I: "Culture Area" and Regional Sequence, Melburn D. Thurman
• Analysis of Grave Good Assemblages from the Strickler Site, A Contact Period Susquehannock Site in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Jay F. Custer
• Where Are the Indian Towns? Archeology, Ethnohistory, and Manifestations of Contact on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Thomas E. Davidson, Richard Hughes, and Joseph M. McNamara
• Seventeenth Century Apartheid: The Suppression and Containment of Indians in Tidewater Virginia, Martha A. McCartney
• Settling with the Indians, Karen Ordahl Kupperman
• Excavations on Locust Neck: The Search for the Historic Indian Settlement in the Choptank Indian Reservation, Joseph M. McNamara
• Archaeological Investigations at 7NC-E-42, A Contact Period Site in New Castle County, Delaware, Jay F. Custer and Scott C. Watson

• Theoretical and Practical Considerations in the Application of Flotation for Establishing, Evaluating, and Interpreting Meaningful Cultural Frameworks, Roger W. Moeller
• Toward a More Comparable Measure of Lithic Reduction Activity, Daniel Cassidy
• Analysis of Projectile Point Morphology, Use Wear, and Activity Areas at the Hawthorne Site (7NC-E-46), New Castle County, Delaware, Jay F. Custer and David C. Bachman
• Methodology for Analysis of Flintknapping Debitage from the Thunderbird Site, Robert Verrey
• Core Reconstruction and Community Patterning at the Fifty Site, Kurt W. Carr
• Inferences from Intra-site Lithic Distribution, Michael Stewart
• Lithic Analysis and Behavioral Change at the Cedar Dell Pond Site, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Norman Vardney Mackie, III
• The Pseudo-Contact Site of Northern Delaware: A Commentary on "Archaeological Investigations at 7NC-E-42, A Contact Period Site in New Castle County, Delaware," Melburn D. Thurman
• A Reply to Thurman, Jay F. Custer and Scott C. Watson
• Virginia "Apartheid" and US Indian Policy: A Comment on "Seventeenth Century Apartheid: The Suppression and Containment of Indians in Tidewater Virginia," Melburn D. Thurman
• McCartney's Response to Thurman, Martha McCartney

• Victor A. Carbone (1943-1986), William M. Gardner
• Rethinking Cultural Stability in Eastern North American Prehistory: Linguistic Evidence from Eastern Algonquian, Alvin H. Luckenbach, Wayne E. Clark, and Richard S. Levy
• Prehistoric Mortuary Complexes of the Delmarva Peninsula, Ronald A. Thomas
• Comparison of Ridge and Valley, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain Archaic Period Site Distribution: An Idealized Transect (Preliminary Model), William M. Gardner
• Making Cultural Ecology Work: An Example from Northern Delaware, Jay F. Custer and Scott C. Watson
• Estimation of Capacity in Aboriginal Conoidal Vessels, R. Alan Mounier
• Aeolian Burial of Woodland Sites on the Delaware Coastal Plain, H. Henry Ward and David C. Bachman
• Catharsis: Comments on Thurman's Coastal Plain Synthesis, R. Michael Stewart
• "A Funny Thing Happened to Archaeological Data Coming Back from Delaware:" Some Models for Middle Atlantic Archaeology, Melburn D. Thurman

• Introduction: New Perspectives on the Eastern Terminal Archaic, John A. Cavallo
• Intrusive "Types" or Shared Lithic Reduction Sequence: Functional Variation at the Archaic-Woodland Interface in the Lower Great Lakes, Joseph E. Granger
• Two Terminal Archaic Cultures of S.E. Virginia and N.E. North Carolina, Floyd Painter
• Late Archaic Cultural Dynamics in the Central Middle Atlantic Region, Jay F. Custer
• Perkiomen Points: A Functional Analysis of a Terminal Archaic Point Type in the Middle Atlantic Region, James Truncer
• Stemmed Points: A Challenge for Archaeological Theory, Stuart J. Feidel
• A Summary of Lenape Socio-Political Organization and Settlement Pattern at the Time of European Contact: The Evidence for Collecting Bands, Marshall J. Becker
• A Rose by Any Other Name: Questions on Mockley Chronology, Frederic W. Gleach
• Application of Blood Residue Analysis Techniques in the Middle Atlantic Region, Jay F. Custer, John Ilgenfritz, and Keith R. Doms
• Fish and Shellfish Use in the Woodland Period on the Virginia Coast, Thomas R. Whyte
• A Note on Stargazer Remains (Genus Astroscopus) from Prehistoric Archaeological Sites on the Atlantic Coast of the United States, Thomas R. Whyte

• Collection Management and Animal Preparation Standards for Vertebrate Collections, Frank J. Dirrigl, Jr.
• Human-Wildlife Competition and Prehistoric Subsistence: The Case of the Eastern United States, Thomas W. Neumann
• A Possible Wister Mug or What is a Wister?, Andrew Stanzeski
• The Simbila, Peru, Paddle-and-Anvil Pottery Manufacturing Technology and Prehistoric Pottery Production in the Eastern United States, Mark A. McConaughy, Allison Heaps de Peña, and James B. Richardson, III
• European-Indian Trade Relations: An Introduction, Herbert C. Kraft
• Evidence of Contact and Trade in the Middle Atlantic Region and with the Minisink Indians of the Upper Delaware River Valley, Herbert C. Kraft
• New Evidence on the Contact Period of Northeastern New Jersey and Southeastern New York, Edward J. Lenik
• The Contact Period in Virginia, Howard A. MacCord, Sr.
• "Strangely Decreast by the Hand of God:" A Documentary Appearance-Disappearance Model for Munsee Demography, 1630-1801, Robert S. Grumet
• A Personal Note, Jay F. Custer
• Mea Culpa: A Reply to Custer and Others, Roger W. Moeller
• Book Reviews

• The Potential of Wood and Charcoal as Environmental and Cultural Indicators in Middle Atlantic Archaeological Sites, Lucinda McWeeney
• The Potential of X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Prehistoric Ceramics in the Middle Atlantic Region: An Analysis of the Clay Mineralogy, Firing Temperature, and Clay Source of Sherds from Virginia, Michael J. Klein
• Guidelines for Standardizing Projectile Point Typology in the Middle Atlantic Region, June Evans and Jay F. Custer
• X-Ray Flourescence Analysis of Jaspers from the Woodward Site (36CH374), the Kasowski Site (36CH161), and Selected Eastern United States Jasper Quarries, Christopher Stevenson, Maria Klimkiewicz, and Barry E. Scheetz
• A Middle Woodland Bipolar Pebble Technology in the Lower Chesapeake Area of Tidewater Virginia, Clarence R. Geier
• Crane Point: An Early Archaic Site in Maryland, Darrin Lowery and Jay F. Custer
• Book Reviews

• A Middle Archaic Sampler: Introduction, Michael Stewart
• The Middle Archaic in New York, Robert E. Funk
• Delaware Valley Middle Archaic, Michael Stewart and John Cavallo
• The Middle Archaic in the Upper Ohio Valley, Verna L. Cowin
• Early to Middle Archaic Period Occupations in Western Maryland: A Preliminary Model, Robert D. Wall
• Archaic Occupations at the Indian Creek V Site (18PR94), Prince Georges County, Maryland, Charles H. LeeDecker and Cheryl A. Holt
• The Bifurcate Tradition in the South Atlantic Region, David G. Anderson
• A New Interpretation of Late Woodland Features, Roger W. Moeller
• Contemporaneity of Late Archaic Piedmont Projectile Point Forms: The Woodward Site (36-CH-374), Chester County, Pennsylvania, David J. Rue and Christopher A. Bergman
• Understanding the Historic Pottery Manufacturing Industry in Rockbridge County, Virginia: Archaeological Excavations at Firebaugh Pottery (44RB290), Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel
• The Owasco Culture: An Update, Charles L. Lucy
• Book Reviews

• Lithic Resource Utilization in Western Maryland Prehistory, Robert D. Wall
• The Distribution and Function of Prehistoric Sites Within the Lower Bay Hundred District, Talbot County, Maryland, Darrin Lowery
• The Microlithic Compound Tool Industry in the Middle Atlantic Region, Thomas W. Neumann and Christopher R. Polglase
• Native American Land Use Patterns of New Jersey, Peter Pagoulatos
• The Functional Uses of Argillite, Peter Pagoulatos
• Cultural Continuity and Change in the Middle and Late Woodland Periods in the Upper James Estuary, Prince George County, Virginia, William C. Johnson and D. Scott Speedy
• Changes in Time: A Seriation Chronology for Southern Maryland Projectile Points, Stuart A. Reeve
• How the Data Come Together: Refitting in Lithic Analysis, Christopher A. Bergman and John F. Doershuk
• Book Reviews

• Current Initiatives in Archaeological Education: Introduction, Louise E. Akerson
• The Transition from Volunteer to Para-Professional: The Fairfax County Heritage Resources Certification and Training Program for Amateur Archaeologists, Kay R. McCarron
• Sharing Archaeology with the Public: A Case Study from Delaware, Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Instructing the Educators: Teacher Training Seminars in Archaeology at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Michael Strutt
• Do You See What I'm Saying? Teaching Deaf Students Archaeology at Mount Vernon, Esther C. White
• Education Versus Recreation: Learning about Archaeology through Educational Programs at Colonial Williamsburg, Patricia M. Samford
• Publishing in Local History Journals, James G. Gibb
• Stratigraphy and Sequence in the South Branch of the Upper Potomac, Moorefield and Petersburg, West Virginia, Robert D. Wall
• Dutch Pots in Maryland Middens: Or, What Light from Yonder Pot Breaks?, James G. Gibb and Wesley J. Balla
• Contact Ethnography in the Middle Atlantic Region, Howard MacCord
• Small Sites Not Forgotten: Investigations of a Temporary Manufacturing Station in Maryland, Michael D. Petraglia
• Piscataway, Doeg, and the Potomac Creek Complex, Lawrence E. Moore
• Soil Dynamics and the Sinking of Artifacts: Procedures for Identifying Components in Non-Stratified Sites, Thomas W. Neumann
• Archaic Society, Barry C. Kent
• Book Reviews

• Alluvial Site Geoarcheology of the Middle Delaware Valley: A Fluvial Systems Paradigm Joseph Schuldenrein
• John Wittholf Memorium
• The Structure and Antiquity of Prehistoric Jasper Quarries in the Reading Prong, Pennsylvania, James Hatch
• Lithostratigraphic Models and the Geographic Distribution of Prehistoric Chert Quarries Within the Cambro-Ordovician Lithologies of the Great Valley Sequence, Sussex County, New Jersey, Philip LaPorta
• Archaeological Implications of Animal Behavior and Ecology, John A. Cavallo
• Prehistoric Settlement in the Uplands of the Upper Delaware Valley: Recent Surveys and Testing in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Bradford Botwick and Robert D. Wall
• The Lower Black's Eddy Site and Prehistoric Settlement Systems in the Middle Delaware Valley, James A. Robertson and Robert C. Kingsley
• Archaic Settlement in the Lower Delaware Valley, Jonathan C. Lothrop and Brad Koldehoff
• For Crying Out Loud!: News About Teardrops, R. Alan Mounier, John Martin
• Defining Early Woodland in the Delaware Valley: The View from the Williamson site, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Chris Hummer
• A Young Archaeologist's Summary Guide to the Deeply Stratified Sandts Eddy Site, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Christopher Bergman, John Doershuk, and Joseph Schuldenrein
• Microwear Analysis of Late and Terminal Archaic Projectile Points From the Padula Site (36NM15), Pennsylvania, Larry R. Kimball
• Mitigation Alternatives for Some Sites in the Delaware River Valley, James D. Bloemker
• The Challenges with Excavating the Sandts Eddy Site (36NM12): Comments on Deep Site Excavation, Research Goals, Excavation Strategies, and Methodologies in Cultural Resources Management, Deborah Vrabel Osborne
• The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Delaware Valley: Comments, Michael Stewart
• Book Reviews

• It's the Law, That's Why: The Effects of OSHA and Other Regulations on Archaeology, Louise E. Akerson
• It's Level D!! Now What Do We Do? In the Field and in the Lab, Dealing with a Hazmat Site, Sharla C. Azizi
• OSHA Regulations and the Excavation of the Deeply Stratified Sandts Eddy Site (36NM12), C.A. Bergman and J.F. Doershuk
• Beware: This Project Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: OSHA Regulations in Cultural Resources Management, Janet L. Friedman and Kenneth E. Fischer
• Approaches to Health and Safety Issues on Urban Archaeological Sites, John M. Rutherford


"Archaeology at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park," edited by Paul Inashima

• An Archaeology of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: Past and Present, Paul A. Shackel
• A Consideration of Archaeological Research as a Tool for Pursuit of Goals in the Vail Agenda: The Virginius Island Project, John T. Eddins
• Applications of Autocad in the Archaeological Arena: A Case Study at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, John W. Ravenhorst
• Four Walls, Two Timbers, and a Flood: Investigation of Lewis Wernwag's Nineteenth-Century Sawmill in an Industrial Community, Anna C. Borden
• Safe Haven from the Flood: A Subterranean Outbuilding at the Wernwag House Site, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Susannah Dean
• Where For Art Thou Machine Shop? An Investigation on Industrial Virginius Island, Mia T. Parsons
• Nineteenth Century Subsistence Strategies at Harpers Ferry: A Synthesis of Faunal Analyses from Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Gwyneth Duncan
• Using the Automated National Catalogue System in a National Park Service Archeological Lab, Cari C. YoungRavenhorst


Contributed Articles

• Studying the Modern Period: Expanding the Perspective of Historical Archaeology, Lawrence E. Moore
• The Structure and Dynamics of the Prehistoric Ecological System in the Eastern Woodlands: Ecological Reality Versus Cultural Myths, Thomas W. Neumann
• Contact Ethnography in the Middle Atlantic Region, Part II, Howard A. MacCord, Sr.
• A Comment on "Dutch Pots in Maryland Middens," Julia A. King, Henry M. Miller, and Mary C. Beaudry
• Bylaws of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, Incorporated
• Book Reviews

• General Editor's Comments, Roger W. Moeller
• Introduction, Edward V. Curtin
• Household and Community: The Development of Iroquois Agricultural Village Life, Susan C. Prezzano
• Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in Late Woodland Upper New York State, Robert J. Hasenstab
• A Comparison of Mohawk and Onondaga Projectile Point Assemblages, Robert D. Kuhn
• Orbital Pitting: Diet or Cooking Utensil?, Lorraine P. Saunders
• The Petroglyphs Speak: Rock Art and Iroquois Origins, James B. Richardson III and James L. Swauger
• Problem Orientation for St. Lawrence Iroquoian Archaeological Research, James F. Pendergast
• Some Thoughts on Late Woodland Ecology, Roger W. Moeller
• Late Woodland Archaeology in the Middle Connecticut Valley: Ceramic Complexity and Cultural Dynamics, Elizabeth S. Chilton
• Effigy Faces in Lenape Archaeology, Herbert Kraft
• Terminal Late Woodland/Early Contact Period Settlement Patterns in the Mid-Hudson Valley, Joseph E. Diamond
• The Goldkrest Site: An Undisturbed, Multi-component Woodland Site in the Heart of Mahikan Territory, Lucianne Lavin, Marina E. Mozzi, J. William Bouchard, and Karen Hartgen
• A Short History of Cuyper Island, Towns of East Greenbush and Schodack, New York, and its Relation to Dutch and Mahican Culture Contact, Paul Huey
• Four Years of Archaeological Research on Rogers Island, An Encampment of the French and Indian War, David R. Starbuck
• Current Research and Future Directions in Archaeology at the Bureau of Historic Sites, Charles L. Fisher and Paul R. Huey
• Otsiningo: From Prehistory to the Present, Dolores Elliott

• Guest Editor's Introduction, Brooke S. Blades
• A Comments on Lithic Raw Material Analyses: Examples from the Old and New Worlds, J.M. Adovasio
• Later Stone Age Site Use Patterns at Lukenya Hill, Kenya, Sibel Barut Kusimba
• Lithic Economy in the Absence of Stone, Angela E. Close
• Middle and Upper Paleolithic Raw Material Transfers in Western and Central Europe: Assessing the Pace of Change, Jehanne Féblot-Augustins
• Neutron Activation Analysis of Late Cretaceous Cherts from Secondary Deposits near Bergerac (Dordogne, France), Brooke Blades, Michael Glascock, and Jean-Pierre Chadelle
• The Williamson Site: An Interpretation of the Lithic Technology Employed at a Paleoindian/Early Archaic Site in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Phillip J. Hill
• Thoughts on Stone Tool Shape and Inferred Function, William Andrefsky, Jr.
• Spatial Analysis of John Smith's Map of Virginia, Martin Gallivan
• Managing the Public's Cultural Resources: From Presentation to Participation, Douglas S. Frink
• Book Reviews

• Thoughts on the Origin of Ceramic Use and Variation, Michael Stewart
• The Nature of Prehistoric Activities on Kettle Creek, An Upland Tributary of the West Branch of the Susquehanna, Michael Petraglia, Dennis Knepper, and John Rissetto
• Archaeological Past and Present: Field Methodologies from 1930s Relief Excavations in Somerset County, Pennsylvania and Its Relevance to Modern Archaeological Interpretations, Bernard K. Means
• Early Holocene Climatic Warming and the Energetics of Culture Change: The Ecology of Early - Middle Archaic Transitions in Georgia and South Carolina, Thomas W. Neumann
• Examination of Shepard and Potomac Creek Wares at a Montgomery Complex Site (44LD521), J. Sanderson Stevens
• Deciphering Site Occupational History at the Graham-White Site (44RN21), Thomas Klatka and Michael Klein
• Assessing Climatic Influences on Human Affairs: Wetlands and the Maximum Holocene Warming in the Northeast, George P. Nicholas
• Unraveling the Mystery of Zoned Decorated Pottery: Implications for Middle Woodland Society in the Middle Atlantic Region, Michael Stewart
• Book Reviews

• Introduction, Richard F. Veit
• Bead Color Symbolism Among Post-Contact Delaware and Munsee Groups, Lynn Marie Pietak
• Selective Change and Cultural Continuity Among the Munsee on the Colonial Frontier, Lenore Santone
• The Indian Town of Playwicki, Michael Stewart
• Lithic Replication: Prehistoric Tool Technologies in the Historic Period, Bipolar Replication of Linear/Blade-like Flakes from Playwicki Farm, Douglas Picadio
• Thermal Alteration Technology in a Historic Native American Village: Implications and Explanations from Playwicki, Joseph V. Moore
• Archaeology at the Printzhof (36De3): The Only Documented Early 17th Century Swedish Colonial Site in the Delaware Valley, Marshall Joseph Becker
• “A Unique and Valuable Historical and Indian Collection:” Charles Conrad Abbott Explores a 17th-Century Dutch Trading Post in the Delaware Valley, Richard Veit and Charles A. Bello
• Murder Mysteries and Modern Archaeology: Early Experiments in Manufacturing Delftware at Burlington, New Jersey, Brenda Springsted
• 17th Century Quaker Lifestyles: Philadelphia's Merchant Elite at the Front and Dock Streets Site, John P. McCarthy
• The “Invisible” Indians of Central Delaware, Ned Heite and Cara Lee Blume


Contributed Papers

• Aeolian Soil Deposition at the Gum Branch Site (7S-E-83C), Sussex County, Delaware, Jay Custer
• Lithic Utilization Patterns in the Blue Ridge of Virginia: Site Types and Site Boxes, Michael B. Barber and George A. Tolley
• Book Reviews

• Dedication, Joe Baker
• Foreword: Cultural Resource Management; the Need for Translation, Brent D. Glass
• Where We Find Ourselves: An Introduction to the Pennsylvania CRM Symposium Papers, Joe Baker
• Pennsylvania Geoarcheology and Cultural Resource Management: An Assessment of Achievements and Shortcomings, Joseph Schuldenrein
• The Sandts Eddy Project: Exceptional Perhaps, But it Needn't be Relegated to an Exception, C. A. Bergman and J. F. Doershuk
• The Intent of the Law: A Success Story? Clemson Island Studies and Compliance Archaeology, Michael Stewart
• Archaeological Survey and the Environmental Impact Statement, Patricia E. Miller
• Farmsteads and Furnaces, Coal and Canals: An Overview of Section 106 Historical Archaeology in Pennsylvania, Scott D. Heberling
• Compliance Archaeology in Pennsylvania: The Long and the Short of It, Daniel G. Roberts
• Some Comments on Section 106 Archaeology,J. M. Adovasio
• Section 106/Government Based Archaeology: Contributions, Consultation, and Compromise, David Pollack
• Some Comments on Cultural Resource Management Archaeology in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere, James W. Hatch
• Have We Saved the Past? Do We Have a Future? The State of Archaeology in Pennsylvania - 2000 The Beginning of the Millennium, Kurt W. Carr


CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

• Prey Selection and Prehistoric Settlement in the Susquehanna Valley: A Test of Protein Residue Analysis, Robert M. Jacoby
• The Late Woodland Period in the Environs of Saltville: A Case for Petty Chiefdom Development, Michael B. Barber and Eugene B. Barfield
• A Discussion of Recent "Pre-Clovis" Investigations, Kurt W. Carr
• Heat Treatment and Characterization of Pennsylvania's Stony Ridge Chert, Gregory Katz
• Mapping a Future for the Past: Further Insights into Depression-era Archaeological Excavations in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Bernard K. Means
• Book Reviews

• The Coffin Maker's Craft: Treatment of the Dead in Rural Eighteenth-Century Delaware, Charles LeeDecker
• Late Woodland Ceramics and Native Populations of the Upper Potomac Valley, Robert D. Wall
• Accokeek Creek: Chronology, the Potomac Creek Complex, and Piscataway Origins, Richard J. Dent and Christine A. Jirikowic
• Two Native Potters 'Speak' About Punctates: Harding Flats Data and the Clemsons Island Concept, Christopher T. Espenshade
• Small Sites on the Appalachian Mountain Slopes: Changes in Altitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Michael B. Barber
• Size Doesn't Matter: Upland Sites, Redundant Data or Redundant Questions?, Josh Duncan
• Circular Reasoning: Ring-Shaped Village Settlements in Late Prehistoric Southwestern Pennsylvania and Beyond, Bernard K. Means
• Genealogy as an Auxiliary Science of Archaeology, Edward F. Heite
• The Early - Late Archaic Unflaked Stone Tool Industry from the Hobo Hill Site (44FX1517): Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation, Thomas W. Neumann and Mary L. Spink
• Book Reviews

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