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 [...]
Walking in October Light: A Memory of Learning about the Archaic Period
Send to KindleBuffer(This is the third in a series of posts on the Archaic period in New York State) This month as I drive down narrow country roads on my way to work, the sunlight shines at low angles through the tree canopies ahead, reminding me of an earlier time when I walked through October [...]
Before the Battle of Wilton: Native American Campsites near the Great Northern Trail
Send to KindleBuffer(This is the fourth in a series on history and archaeology in upstate New York communities) The investigation of 708 Route 9 Precontact Sites 1-4 was conducted before construction in order to recover important archaeological information. Not all of the sites were equally productive of new information, but Site 1 yielded data that [...]
Fieldnotes Says Hello to 2012
Send to KindleOver the past year, our archaeological surveys taken us to communities across eastern New York such as Queensbury, Clifton Park, Halfmoon, Malta, Saratoga Springs, Wilton, Ballston and Ballston Spa, Mechanicville, Albany, Bethlehem, Niskayuna, Johnstown, Argyle, Coxsackie, Colonie, Cohoes, and Cobleskill. In our spare moments we try to bring you our thoughts and an [...]
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 [...]
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- 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
