The Missing 2000 Years: The Continuing Mystery of the Earliest Archaic in the...
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,...
View ArticleAn Early Archaic Radiocarbon Date from Wilton, New York
Send to Kindle(This is the second in a series of posts on the Archaic period in New York State) Last week the radiocarbon dating firm Beta-Analytic, Inc. provided a radiocarbon date for an...
View ArticleNew Archaeological Discoveries in the Town of Wilton, Saratoga County, New York
Send to KindleBuffer(This is the third in a series on history and archaeology in upstate New York communities) Until recently, archaeologists combing archives for information on ancient Indian sites in...
View ArticleBefore the Battle of Wilton: Native American Campsites near the Great...
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...
View ArticleWilliam A. Ritchie, Robert E. Funk, and the Archaic Period in New York State...
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...
View ArticlePaleoindian 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...
View ArticleEarly to Middle Archaic: Glimpses of Early Ways of Life in Greene County, New...
Send to KindleBuffer Flint Mine Hill 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...
View ArticleWay Down Below the Ocean…Rising Sea-Level and the Atlantean Realms of the...
Send to KindleBuffer Sea level has been rising since the glaciers of the last ice age began to melt about 18,000 years ago. In a December 2012 National Geographic article, Laura Spinney brought us a...
View ArticleThe Archaic Period Archaeological Sites at Brewerton, New York
Send to KindleBuffer Fort Brewerton historic marker. Photo credit: Kerry Nelson Exploring archaeological sites at Brewerton, New York, the famous archaeologist William A. Ritchie (1946:1) found it...
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