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Excavations at the site of an 18th century rural residence in Queens County, New York, have yielded information about changing patterns of land use—from agricultural, to suburban, to industrial—in the New York metropolitan region. Comparison of quantitative data about some classes of specimens from this site with similar information from the Clinton Avenue site in Kingston, New York, and the Van Campen site (28SX245) in Wallpack Center, New Jersey, has permitted the tentative formulation of hypotheses about “diffusional lag” and “culture areas” in this part of the northeastern United States.
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Salwen, B., Bridges, S.T. & Rothschild, N.A. The utility of small samples from historic sites: Onderdonk, Clinton Avenue, and Van Campen. Hist Arch 15, 79–94 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03374015
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