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Francis Goes to West Point: Information From Answers.com The last time I was there, it had been renamed "Buffalo Soldiers Field" where the football is played, after the African American soldiers in the American Army in the West (probably not after the Bob Marley song of the same name, but, who knows?) My favorite was the African American mounted bicycles which the Army tried cross-country back in the early 20th century as a feasibility study. The US Army turned 231 years old this week on Wednesday. New dress blues were announced also for September that go back to its origins apparently. I was standing once in a snow squall across from it on the east side of the Hudson River and two Grumman F-14 "Tomcats" from the Navy buzzed the Army-Navy football game, which was quite a sight to see. (1992?) Last time I dug test holes there, with Panamerican Consultants, we had to climb up Bull Hill, near Camp Buckner, overlooking the 10th Mountain's camp on a nice lake. New communications gear needed a road up there believe me! An "Orient Fishtail" projectile point was found in one of the tests, in two pieces. It is a Late Archaic Transitional point usually, as this one was, made of quartz, that frankly, defies creditable reproduction by a modern person almost to describe it. Thinly worked quartz in a graceful lanceolate blade "merging into a flaring 'fishtail' stem" on the end. I was once part of a volunteer excavation of a great number (for them) nearby the "type site" the Stony Brook Site, that was excavated by a former New York State Archaeologist (he also worked in many sites on Martha's Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts, once part with New York of the Duke of York's holdings, along with Pemaquid, Maine. William Ritchie and New York, published an "Archaeology of Martha's Vineyard" a number of sites, which we used (out of print) as a text in our fieldschool in Long Island archaeology.) At the "Fischetti Site" in West Meadow, near Old Field, NY we found maybe 50 or 60 of them under some aboriginal pottery, on-top of what may have been a "sweat lodge" and perhaps part of the method of preparing the quartz for "knapping". Stratigraphy is very hard to establish on many places on Long Island because of it being entirely glacial outwash, which given the opportunity (no green cover) will move around by water and wind into other places, nearby we found a plain shell below one meter in depth for example, not far from onshore winds and storms from Long Island Sound. What is interesting about finding one in West Point Military Academy grounds is the question of dating them. They were associated with the earliest known "burials complex" out in Orient, New York, at the end of the northern "fluke" of the "fish-shaped" island, where today the ferries leave for the casinos in Connecticut and for the Federal animal disease research laboratory on Plum Island, where its said the Americans and the British had their first skirmish in the American Revolutionary War. The Orient "points" were associated with a burial complex that included steatite (a type of soapstone) cooking bowls, thought to have come from Connecticut across the Long Island Sound in further archaeological research there. In "a Typology and Nomenclature for New York Projectile Points" (revised 1971) by William A. Ritchie, once the aforementioned author and State Archaeologist, it states that the "Orient complex radiocarbon dated between 1044 B.C. +- 300 years...and 763 B.C. +- 220 years." More recently, Professor Dean Snow, a well known archaeologist at Penn State, in State College, PA, found and dated some deposits with "fishtail" shaped projectile points in the Delaware Water Gap to around 500 B.C. "between" New York and New Jersey. I also found one on the RCA David Saronoff Research Center front yard near Princeton, NJ in a gas pipe trench. I worked with one of his students last year on a survey of about 1000 acres of two proposed house development sites, one near Harriman, NY (one a railway tycoon, a more recent one "United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons" who've donated the nearby property for the former Columbia University Business School now left and will probably become in part a park, also said to have donated the land for the sites of the large shopping stores "magnet" there) near Cromwell Lake, and the other, near Woodbury, NY, between Bull Hill on the West Point Military Academy and the National Register, Quaker Meetinghouse, an area bisected by the New York State Thruway.