THE KIRSHNER SITE (36Wm213)

A Preliminary Reassessment of a Multiple Monongahela Component Site
by
William C. Johnson, Jay Babich, and Natale Kirshner Shawl

Kirshner Site
From the Sewickley Creek -Youghiogheny River
Drainage Divide

Kirshner Site (36Wm213)
Located on the Glades Path
Sewickley Creek
Youghiogheny River
36Wm213
Glades Path
Drainage Divide

Kirshner Site Facing East

Feature 2
Detached Storage Structure
Inner House Ring

Feature 2
Detached Storage Structure
Inner House Ring

Stockade Trench and Stockade Post Molds
Cross-Sections
Outer House Ring

Feature 30 Stockade Trench
Outer House Ring

Stockade Post Holes
Chinked with Sandstone
Outer House Ring
Stockade Trench

House 7
Outer House Ring

House 4
Outer House Ring

Houses 4 and 5
Cross-Sectioned Post Molds
Outer House Ring

House 12
Outer House Ring

House 14
Outer House Ring

House 13
Cross-Sectioned Post Molds, Outer House Ring

House 13
Cross-Sectioned Post Molds
Outer House Ring
House 15
Cross-Sectioned Post Molds
Outer House Ring

House 15
Sectioned Post Molds - Outer House Ring
House 16
Sectioned Post Molds - Inner House Ring

Feature 13
Roof Support Post Hole and Cross-Section
House 1 - Outer House Ring

Feature 148
Cross-Sectioned Roof Support Post Hole
House 14 Outer House Ring

Feature 178
Cross-Sectioned Double Roof Support Post Holes
House 15 - Outer House Ring

Feature 178
Double Roof Support Post Holes
House 15 - Outer House Ring

Monongahela House Analog
Town Creek Site, North Carolina

Monongahela House Reconstruction

Feature 186
Possible Ceremonial Cache in Floor
House 15 - Outer House Ring

Feature 187
Pear-Shaped, Wall Trenched Storage Structure
Attached to House 15 – Outer House Ring

Burial 6 Accouterments:
Bone Bead Apron with Incised
Mussel Shell Pendant, Turtle
Humeri, and Redhorse
Maxilla and 2 Whelk
Columella Hair Tubes

Possible Burial Cache Contents
Associated with Burial 2 in Feature 10
Outer House Ring

Feature 35
Attached to House 8,
Inner House Ring

Feature 35
Attached to House 8,
Inner House Ring

Vessel 22 Vessel 3
S10 W60 Fea. 134
Outer House Ring

Vessel 5
Feature 27, Outer House Ring

V-20 V-8 V-56
V-19 V-33 V-15
V-20, Inner House Ring; Rest, Outer House Ring

V-57 V-16 V-27 V-9 V-29
V-48 V-45 V-17
V-45, Inner House Ring; V-16, Provunk.; Rest, Outer House Ring

Vessel 6 Para-Iroquoian Ware Vessel 1
S30W20 Fea. 161
Over Stockade – Outer House Ring Inner House Ring?

Small Triangular Arrow Points

Large Triangular Arrow Points

Mon-Yough Rouletted Pipe Bowl Fragments

Mon-Yough Cord-Impressed
Pipe Bowl

Mon-Yough Pipe Stem Fragments

Mon-Yough Pipe Stem
with Rouletted Zoomorphic Figure

Stone Vasiform Pipes
Outer House Ring

Bird and Small Mammal Bone Beads
Large Mammal Bone Beads

Tooth and Bone Pendants
Marine Shell Beads
and Pendants

THE END