Field Techs Needed for Albany NY Work Beginning 8/13
Curtin Archaeological Consulting, Inc. is seeking local field technicians for the week of 8/13 for a project in Albany, New York. There is some potential for additional work beyond next week. Starting pay is $11 per hour. Please email resumes or, if you’ve recently sent a resume, a note about your availability to kerry-at-curtinarchaeology.com
Archaeology Layoffs Are Looming Again
Earlier this year the New York State Education Department was poised to lay off five New York State Museum Scientists including the State Archaeologist and the Curators of Archaeology and Historical Archaeology. These layoffs are imminent again following today’s failure by the members of the Public Employees Federation (PEF) to ratify the contract that PEF […]
2011 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference
Kindle The 2011 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference is set for September 17, 2011 at the Michigan State University campus. Click here for all conference information. Go Spartans! MSU Anthropology MSU Campus Archaeology Program
11th Annual Algonquian Peoples Seminar
Kindle New York State Museum Cultural Education Center, Empire State Plaza Madison Avenue, Albany, New York
Papers on the Archaic Period Presented at the 2011 NYSAA Annual Meeting
On 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 Luther Forest […]
Iroquois Museum to host Early Technology Day April 30
Kindle Are you tired of being inside yet? Put on your warm clothes and waterproof boots and come join us! The Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, NY announces the 2nd Annual Early Technology Day on Saturday April 30 from 10 am to 4 pm. Please join us for flint knapping demonstrations, atl-atl shoot with […]
Pompeii Now Just a Short Train Ride Away
Buffer A new exhibition entitled “Pompeii The Exhibit: Life and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius” opens today at Discovery Times Square in New York.
New Guidance from ACHP on Wind Farms
Buffer http://www.achp.gov/news_windfarmproject.html
Ancient Remains of Child found in Alaska
Buffer A recent article in Science magazine reports the discovery of the cremated remains of a ~3 year old child found in a pit within a residential structure dated to approximately 11,500 calendar years ago. These are the oldest human remains found to date in the North American Arctic or Subarctic regions. This New York […]
Waiting for the thaw
Buffer Can’t wait to get back out there and find some more of these!
Fieldnotes » Fieldnotes- A Hudson Valley Writer on the Ancient Custom of Christmas
- An Inside View of an Archaeological Project: The Adam Shafer Site in Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York
- When It’s Not about Turkey and Football: Review of The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving by Larry Spotted Crow Mann
- Understanding Chert in the Mid-Hudson Valley: A Note on a Recent Workshop and Field Trip
- Archaeological Memoir: Sharing Our Histories on Social Media
- The Vampire Skeleton: A Scary Seneca Iroquois Story
- Review of Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson
- Reconstructing Frontenac Island’s History
- Frontenac, Island of History
- Glimpses of Archaic Societies
