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Did Climate Change Affect the Hudson Valley, AD 800-1300?
Send to KindleBuffer(This is the first in series of posts about the environmental context of human ecosystems and archaeological sites, ca. AD 800-1700). Following the lead of geologists,...
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Recent Investigation Shows Effects of Ancient Native American Forest Clearing
Send to Kindle(This is the third in a series of posts about the environmental context of human ecosystems and archaeological sites in eastern North America, ca. AD 800-1700). Last summer I wrote about...
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August Reading for Archaeologists-Adventurous Fiction for People with Heads...
Send to KindleIt’s July. You’re on an archaeological survey in the uplands west of the Hudson River, south of the Mohawk. It’s hot and humid. You peer through the haze. You have your doubts that...
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The Missing 2000 Years: The Continuing Mystery of the Earliest Archaic in the...
Send to KindleEd Curtin of Curtin Archaeological Consulting Inc. and the Van Epps-Hartley Chapter, NYSAA will be giving a talk Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:30 at the Mulberry House Senior Center,...
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Shaping the Forest with Fire-A Very Old Native American Practice
Send to Kindle(This is the fifth in a series of posts about the environmental context of human ecosystems and archaeological sites in eastern North America, ca. AD 800-1700). A press release last year...
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New Archaeological Discoveries in the Town of Wilton, Saratoga County, New York
Send to KindleBuffer(This is the third in a series on history and archaeology in upstate New York communities) Until recently, archaeologists combing archives for information on ancient Indian sites in...
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A Very Definite Past Meets an Unfortunately Possible Future: Review of The...
Send to KindleBufferIn the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, certain recent, widely-reported comments remind me that I have put off for too long a review of a very important book by Brian Fagan on the last...
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William A. Ritchie, Robert E. Funk, and the Archaic Period in New York State...
Send to KindleBufferThe Archaic period, 3,000-10,000 years before present (BP) saw human adaptation to temperate, eastern woodlands environments after the Ice Age, and no doubt also witnessed...
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Paleoindian to Archaic in Saratoga County, New York
Send to KindleBuffer Archaeologists cite 10,000 radiocarbon years Before Present (BP) as the end of the Paleoindian period and the beginning of the Archaic. This reflects a certain reality in the...
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Early to Middle Archaic: Glimpses of Early Ways of Life in Greene County, New...
Send to KindleBuffer Flint Mine Hill Since the days in the 1920s when the New York State Museum’s Arthur Parker (1924) excavated at Coxsackie’s Flint Mine Hill, the flats, ridges, and stream-sides of...
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Way Down Below the Ocean…Rising Sea-Level and the Atlantean Realms of the...
Send to KindleBuffer Sea level has been rising since the glaciers of the last ice age began to melt about 18,000 years ago. In a December 2012 National Geographic article, Laura Spinney brought us a...
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