Winter work in
Coxsackie, New
York.
Crew works on
large block
excavation in
Coxsackie, New
York.



Edward V. Curtin (President, Chief Archaeologist) received anthropology Masters and
Ph. D. degrees from Binghamton University. He has been working in the field of cultural
resource archaeology for over 30 years, has served as a review archaeologist at the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and has served as both
principal investigator in the cultural resources survey program and supervisor of the
archaeological collections inventory of the New York State Museum. He currently sits
on the Board of Directors of the New York Archaeological Council, and chairs the
Governing Council of the Robert E. Funk Memorial Archaeology Foundation. His main
areas of interest are New York State prehistory, the colonial period, 19th century
domestic sites, and cultural resource and historic preservation policy.
Kerry L. Nelson (Vice President, Senior Archaeologist) received a B. A. in
anthropology from Skidmore College and an M. A. in Public History from the University
at Albany. She has been working in the field of cultural resource management since
1995. Her areas of interest include northeastern prehistoric archaeology, lithic
analysis, prehistoric settlement patterns, historical and archaeological collections
management and curation, historical archaeology, public history, and American history
from contact through the twentieth century.
Andrew Farry (Historical Archaeologist, GIS Coordinator) earned a Masters degree in
anthropology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan
State University. He has worked in cultural resource archaeology since 2002, prior to
which he served as a crew chief in numerous field school excavations of British military
sites in upstate New York, including Rogers Island, Fort William Henry and Fort George.
His main areas of interest include the historical archaeology of New York, colonial
military archaeology, GIS applications and ceramic analyses.