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 [...]
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 [...]
The Missing 2000 Years: The Continuing Mystery of the Earliest Archaic in the Hudson Valley
Send to KindleEd Curtin of Curtin Archaeological Consulting Inc. and the Van Epps-Hartley Chapter, NYSAA will be giving a talk Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:30 at the Mulberry House Senior Center, 62-70 West Main Street, Middletown, New York. The talk, entitled: “The Missing 2000 Years: The Continuing Mystery of the Earliest Archaic in the [...]
A Trip to the New York State Museum, December 2, 2010
Send to KindleUpon occasion, my work takes me to the New York State Museum to consult with scientists or to use the archaeological collections. I made one such trip on December 2, 2010 in order to study the artifacts from the Vosburg site, an Archaic period (3,000-10,000 years old) site located in Guilderland, New York. [...]
“If I have seen farther…” Why State Archaeologists, Archaeology Curators, and State Museums Are Important
Send to Kindle “If I have seen farther” Isaac Newton said, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” And so he acknowledged his debt to those on whose work his great achievements were based. The prominent American sociologist, Robert K. Merton, delving deeper into Newton’s aphorism, found that the Romans, too, knew about [...]
Funk Foundation Presence at the Spring Archaeology Meetings in New York
Send to KindleThe 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Robert E. Funk Memorial Archaeology Foundation
Send to KindleBufferRobert E. Funk was the New York State Archaeologist from 1971-1993. He made significant contributions to the archaeology of several regions, but most substantially to the understanding of the prehistoric and early contact periods in the Hudson, Mohawk, and Susquehanna valleys. In the 1960s, Bob also initiated Cultural Resource Management archaeology at the [...]
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
