Interesting Paper on Ancient Irish Sea-Faring Presented at the NYSAA Meeting
Send to KindleOn April 16, 2010, during the annual meeting of the New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA), Denis Foley presented a paper on medieval Irish sea-faring that I found very interesting, since I recently had done some reading on the subject of North Atlantic exploration. During the middle of the just-passed, long, cold, snowy [...]
11th Annual Algonquian Peoples Seminar
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Papers on the Archaic Period Presented at the 2011 NYSAA Annual Meeting
Send to KindleOn Saturday morning, April 16, several of the papers presented at the annual meeting of the New York State Archaeological Association focused on the Archaic period in eastern New York State. Adam Luscier led the session off with a paper on the Dunes Site, which was excavated in advance of construction of the [...]
The New York State Spring 2011 Archaeology Meetings
Send to KindleOver the weekend of April 15-17, Kerry Nelson and I attended the joint meeting of the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC) and the New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA), along with about 150 friends and colleagues. For NYAC, it was the spring meeting, and there was a program on educational outreach to the [...]
In Appreciation of Lewis R. Binford
Send to KindleSoon after Al Dekin convinced me to study Lamoka and Dustin points for my master’s thesis project, I realized that I was treading where the great archaeologist Lewis Binford had gone before. My research took me to the same collections that Binford had seen in the Great Lakes Range in the Museum of [...]