Spring 2014 Meeting of the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC)
Buffer The New York Archaeological Council met in Oneonta, New York on Friday, April 11, 2014. The business meeting was followed by a presentation on the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) by NYAC’s guest, Patrick Garrow, President of RPA. This report summarizes some of the highlights of the meeting: Report on the Robert E. Funk […]
Hydrofracking, Regulation, and Archaeology
Wednesday morning I turned on Albany, New York’s WNYT news and saw the actor Mark Ruffalo speaking in an interview about Tuesday’s protest against New York State’s permitting of hydrofracking in upstate New York. Ruffalo, who lives in upstate New York, offered the opinion that hydrofracking will either be “banned” or “heavily, heavily, heavily, heavily […]
The New York Archaeological Council
On Saturday, October 1, I attended the fall meeting of the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC), held at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua, New York. The New York Archaeological Council formed in 1972 as an organization of professional archaeologists whose main mission was to advocate for the identification, conservation, and wise use of archaeological […]
Funk Foundation Presence at the Spring Archaeology Meetings in New York
The Robert E. Funk Memorial Archaeology Foundation made presentations to the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC) and the New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA) at their joint meeting in Johnstown, New York, April 15-17, 2011. Edward V. Curtin, Jonathan Lothrop, and Wayne Lenig, all members of the Funk Foundation’s Governing Council, attended the meetings (Wayne […]
Remembering Gordon DeAngelo on Avocational Archaeology
I reported earlier that on April 16, 2011, the New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA) remembered the late Gordon DeAngelo through an afternoon of presentations on Gordon’s life and contributions to archaeology. I remember Gordon from my first meeting with him in 1978, when he was the DOT liaison for archaeology in the Syracuse regional […]
The New York State Spring 2011 Archaeology Meetings
Over 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 public. For […]
