Understanding Chert in the Mid-Hudson Valley: A Note on a Recent Workshop and Field Trip
Buffer On November 1, 2014 a group of archaeologists and geologists participated in a workshop on chert at the New York State Museum, and then left in a caravan of cars, trucks and vans for a field trip to chert-bearing sites located in Greene and Ulster Counties. This is the second of a projected […]
Recent Investigation Shows Effects of Ancient Native American Forest Clearing
Kindle(This is the third in a series of posts about the environmental context of human ecosystems and archaeological sites in eastern North America, ca. AD 800-1700). Last summer I wrote about ancient forest clearing practices of American Indians in the Eastern Woodlands region, particularly in reference to the Mohawk and Hudson valleys of New York […]