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Volume 5, Issue 1
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Twin Tier Region of Northeastern PA and Southern NY.
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Endicott, NY
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except July, Aug., & Dec.
email:
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A LENAPE CHRONOLOGY
1000 CE: Origins of Lenape culture. Transformation from Middle to Late Woodland cultural tradition. This
is marked by the invention of the bow and arrow and developments of region-specific, intensive foraging
patterns.
1500-1550: Earliest contacts with Europeans; sporadic and minimal direct influence. However, this period
established the basis for the continental pelt trade and the development of the great Susquehannock and Five
Nations Iroquois confederacies.
1623: Susquehannock use routes through Lenape territory to vend pelts to Dutch on the Delaware River.
1638: Swedish colonization of the Delaware Valley has little direct impact on the Lenape. A number of
Swedish colonists have Lenape wives and bilingual children.
1640-1660: Gardening of maize provides a cash crop to be sold before leaving on winter hunting (Becker
1995? ETC.
Land sales and other economic activities provides the Lenape with access to European cloth and
other desired goods.
1650s: Five Nations aggression weakens the Susquehannock, who provide concessions to allies such as the
Lenape. Some Lenape moving west. Traditional bands summering upstream from ancient fishing stations.
1655-1660: New England farmers can sell maize at cheaper rates than Lenape, accelerating Lenape movement west to participate in the pelt trade. Mill dams interfere with fish runs.
1674-75: Five Nations destroys the Susquehannock confederacy, leaving the Lenape as de facto principals in
the pelt trade. Further migration takes place.
1681: Beginning of William Penn land purchases (1681-1701). Penn protects rights to summer fishing stations. Continuing flow of individual Lenape into the colonial population.
1733-35: Last of the Lenape fishing bands shift their summer stations to location along the Susquehanna
River or further west. A small number of Lenape remain at the headwaters of the Schuylkil River, in the
Tulpehocken area, and others live among the colonists.
A few Lenopi move from New Jersey into the Forks of Delaware in Pennsylvania, a formerly uninhabited mutual resource area north of Lenape territory.
1800: The last Lenape remaining in their homeland die in the early 1800s. The last colonists who had seen
Lenape living in traditional ways also are dying. This is the period of Quaker missionaries working among the
Seneca.
1830: The publication of Quaker missionary reports describing Seneca lifeways ca. 1800 leads to confusion
as to how the Lenape had lived. Historians ignorant of the fish-oriented Lenape foraging lifestyle describe
generic Indians as being village dwelling, maize planting horticulturalists, such as the Five Nations Iroquois.
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Elynor W. Depue
Beryl Cleary
S R AC M E M B E R S H I P D R I V E C O N T E S T !
From today until our next annual membership meeting at our Drumbeats Through
Time event on October 10, 2009, we are having a membership drive contest. SRAC
members can win huge prizes for referring new members to SRAC!
There will be three top winners in two categories: Most new members referred
and most membership dollars made.
How can YOU win?
1.) You need to be a member.
2.) In order for a referral to count for you in this contest, the new member must write
in that they were referred by you on their membership form.
3.) Download the form at http://www.sracenter.org/Join/MembershipForm.pdf, put
your name on them as the referrer and give them to your friends to join the contest
today!
4.) We will keep track of the new members and referrers in our database. We'll
announce the leaders at different intervals throughout the contest. The top three
winners for both categories will win prizes and will be announced at the annual
event in October!
Stay tuned for more information!
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Walter Newton and Ted Keir with 10 foot woolly mammoth tusk
uncovered at Spring Lake, near Wyalusing, PA
By analyzing starch residue in ancient grinding tools and tion of corn and the
charred remains in cooking pots, researchers now claim that
transition from
they have found evidence that corn was being domesticated "hunter/gatherer" to
as much as 8,700 years ago. Even more impressive is that an agricultural society
they have located a rock shelter in Mexico's Central Balsas has been a hot topic in
River Valley that actually yielded evidence of domesticated archaeology for a very
corn and squash.(Anthony Ranere, Dolores Piperno et al. The
long time.
Cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize
and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley,
Mexico. PNAS, March 24, 2009)
But wait a minute....ROCK SHELTER...AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY? These two terms are not commonly used together!
The people that used rock shelters are commonly referred to as the PaleoIndian/Early Archaic and agriculture is not
thought to have been part of their lifestyle. How this relates to the PaleoIndian/Early Archaic people who lived in our
region will also be an interesting thing to watch for. If anyone has any info on the use of starch analysis in the Northeast,
please send it to SRAC so that we can share it with our readers!
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Ben Borko
Ann Carrigan
Marilyn Weber
Beryl Cleary
Janet Andrus
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RECENT EVENTS
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S R AC
The start of 2009 has been wonderful for SRAC and its membership! We continue to provide the community with many
fun learning opportunities, and the crowds at our events keep growing. The pictures on these two pages are just some
of the special moments weve captured.
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Contact Us!
Our Headquarters
Mail:
SRAC
PO Box 12
Sayre, PA 18840
Phone:
607607-727727-3111
Email:
info@SRACenter.org
SRAC was honored to be the lead story in the New York State Archaeology (NYSAA)
Winter 2009 Newsletter. The article can be read online by visiting the NYSAA website at
nysaaweb.bfn.org/publications.shtml.
Our Center
Location:
345 Broad St.
Waverly, NY
Phone:
607607-565565-7960
Website:
SRACenter.org
Online Giftshop:
SRACenter.org/store
Online Membership:
SRACenter.org/join
SRAC Blog:
SRACenter.blogspot.com
Online Donations:
SRACenter.org/donations
Mobile Website:
SRACenter.org/mobile
Several of our members are members of the Tri-Cities Chapter of the NYSAA as well.
NYSAA functions are:
to vigorously promote research into the lifestyles of the early inhabitants of New York
State with an emphasis toward cultural preservation, to participate in excavations when
necessary to preserve threatened historic and pre-historic habitats, to interpret
excavated cultures in a shared environment by lecture or publication in one of many
scholarly journals, and to promote that environment by hosting an annual conference in
one of the 15 communities within which NYSAA chapters are located and by publishing
"The Bulletin" which is the annual journal of NYSAA.
S R AC S P O N S O R S H I P B OA R D
Be on the lookout for a new addition to the exterior of
the SRAC building at 345 Broad Street in Waverly,
NY. SRAC has decided to offer a sponsorship board
to organization sponsors in our banner program that
will honor them by placing their organization banner
on our sponsor board for different lengths of time
based on their level of sponsorship.
The SRAC Sponsorship board area will be on the
upper space of the Center at 345 Broad Street,
Waverly, NY that faces eastward.Please contact
SRAC executive director, Deb Twigg at (607)7273111 for more information.
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Special thanks to
John Margetanski
for taking event
photos for SRAC!
Stanley Vanderlaan
Arnolds Excavating
Sandy Campbell
Stan Vanderlaan
Ed Nizalowski
Arnolds Excavating
Beryl Cleary
Elynor Depue
Harley Mayo
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PLEASE CONSIDER SPONSORING THE SRAC JOURNAL WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTUION AT ONE OF
THE LEVELS LISTED BELOW.
Many of you are familiar with our quarterly journal, and the quality and volume of educational information we try to bring to the community throughout the year. In fact our range of readership includes high school students to retired persons as well as professional scientists and local universities. The journal has grown into a well read and respected publication; and we hope that it will continue to grow
and be a resource of educational and entertaining material for years to come. Obviously, with this continued growth not only in content
and pages but distribution, there are added costs associated. For this reason, we have decided to offer sponsorship by local individuals, families, and businesses who want to help us in our efforts. We currently publish and distribute 1,000 copies each quarter ~ that's
currently 4,000 copies each year, with our coverage mainly in Bradford County PA and Tioga and Chemung Counties in NY, but we
have readership that reaches far beyond these boundaries as well.
How Can You Become a Sponsor?
1.) Choose your level of sponsorship and how many issues you would like to sponsor below. If you
would like to sponsor multiple quarterly journals (4 per year) or even a whole year, just multiply the
sponsorship level.
2.) Tell us what you would like us to print
3.) Include your check along with this completed form.
Thank you for being an active supporter of this worthy cause!
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF SPONSORSHIP LEVELS WITH FORMATS AND APPROXIMATE SIZES.
Platinum $500.00 Our top level of sponsorship! With your donation of $500 you will be facilitating 1,000
copies of one quarterly journal. Your donation will be recognized with a full half-page gray-scale or black and
white ad that can measure up to 7 1/2 wide by 5 tall. (Sorry, but we can accept only one Platinum sponsor
per issue; however, you can reserve for future issues.) Please email artwork and text you wish included to
sfogel@hughes.net.
Gold
$100.00
Silver
$50.00
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Friend
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SRAC
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Gift Shop and Exhibit Hall Open:
Tuesday through Friday 1:00 - 5:00pm
Saturday 11:00 - 4:00pm
Call 607-565-7960 during business
hours for more info.
345 Broad Street, Waverly NY
T H E S R AC B OA R D O F D I R E C T O R S
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Janet Andrus
Ted Keir
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Mark Madill
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