Sea Level Rise and Archaeological Sites: The Case of Jamestown, Virginia
Send to KindleBuffer Earlier this week National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” had a story on the threat of on-going and accelerating sea-level rise to the archaeological site of the early 17th century English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. The big question addressed pro and con in the story is whether archaeologists should fully (or at [...]
The 2013 New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA) Annual Meeting
Send to KindleBuffer On April 26-28, 2013 NYSAA held its annual meeting in Watertown, New York, in conjunction with the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC) April 26 spring meeting. The NYSAA meeting was well-attended and had one of the largest programs in years, with two sessions running concurrently through much of the meeting. The keynote [...]
Way Down Below the Ocean…Rising Sea-Level and the Atlantean Realms of the Post-Glacial World
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 story on evidence of sea level change in the North Sea and adjacent estuaries and shores. In this article, we [...]
The Trailside Site: A Middle Archaic Period Site in Queensbury, New York
Send to KindleBuffer The Trailside site was discovered and excavated by Curtin Archaeological prior to construction of a pump station in the mid-2000s near Route 9 in Queensbury. The name Trailside comes in part from the site’s location next to a dirt trail off of U. S. Route 9, which winds through Queensbury and the [...]
Early to Middle Archaic: Glimpses of Early Ways of Life in Greene County, New York
Send to KindleBuffer 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 eastern Greene County, New York, have drawn the attention of archaeologists. Archaeological sites are abundant here, as are important sources of material for prehistoric stone [...]
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 approximate timing of technological change in many regions, but as a year 10,000 BP is arbitrary. In northern New York cultures using lanceolate projectile [...]
The Old Ones
Send to KindleBufferRecently I remembered being an archaeology student, and how the words that archaeologists use for periods, cultures, or traditions often sounded familiar yet unfamiliar: names like the Archaic and the Woodland, Laurentian and Point Peninsula. These are words which sound strange in some ways to everyone who doesn’t deal with them routinely: words [...]
William A. Ritchie, Robert E. Funk, and the Archaic Period in New York State Archaeology
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 population growth, human migration, and interactions between different societies as the environment changed and innovations were made in technology and subsistence. Archaic societies were hunters-gatherers, although the ways [...]
…and Back Again: A Viking Family Returns from Vinland
Send to KindleBufferWhile looking into the subject of Vikings in the New World, I came across a magazine article on an often untold part of the Vinland story, comprising an afterword about what happened next. The Vikings of the Vinland sagas are said to have stayed at most about three years and then returned home. [...]
Vikings in the New World: A New Phase of Investigation
Send to KindleBufferIt seems to me that there are several phases in the reporting and investigation of Viking sojourns in North America. The first phase (in the 19th and early 20th centuries) focused on interpreting the Icelandic sagas involving Leif Ericson and others. These accounts led to speculation concerning where along the east coast Leif [...]
FieldnotesFieldnotes- Sea Level Rise and Archaeological Sites: The Case of Jamestown, Virginia
- The 2013 New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA) Annual Meeting
- Way Down Below the Ocean…Rising Sea-Level and the Atlantean Realms of the Post-Glacial World
- The Trailside Site: A Middle Archaic Period Site in Queensbury, New York
- Early to Middle Archaic: Glimpses of Early Ways of Life in Greene County, New York
- Paleoindian to Archaic in Saratoga County, New York
- The Old Ones
- William A. Ritchie, Robert E. Funk, and the Archaic Period in New York State Archaeology
- …and Back Again: A Viking Family Returns from Vinland
- Vikings in the New World: A New Phase of Investigation
