A Very Definite Past Meets an Unfortunately Possible Future: Review of The Great Warming by Brian Fagan
Send to KindleBufferIn the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, certain recent, widely-reported comments remind me that I have put off for too long a review of a very important book by Brian Fagan on the last period of global warming, AD 800-1300. For example, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo notes the increasing frequency and severity [...]
Relax with Some Summer Reading
Send to KindleWhile conducting a Phase 1 archaeological survey on the hottest day of the year in the Town of Schodack, in New York’s Hudson Valley, my thoughts drifted occasionally away from the heat and insects to books I have enjoyed. Imagine you are there in the woods on a hot day in July. It’s [...]
Forest Burning and Clearing by Hudson Valley Indians 1000 Years Ago
Send to KindleBuffer(This is the second in a series of posts about the environmental context of human ecosystems and archaeological sites, ca. AD 800-1700). In describing and interpreting the results of her investigation of the Goldkrest Site near Albany, New York, archaeologist Lucianne Lavin (2004) referred to the radiocarbon dating of burned soil patches with [...]
Did Climate Change Affect the Hudson Valley, AD 800-1300?
Send to KindleBuffer(This is the first in series of posts about the environmental context of human ecosystems and archaeological sites, ca. AD 800-1700). Following the lead of geologists, paleontologists, and climatologists, in recent years archaeologists have been paying more attention to the Medieval Warm Period. Ancient histories and proxy climate records such as tree rings, [...]
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
