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Water rights is a social issue of growing importance. Recently, the United Nations declared access to clean drinking water to be a basic human right. Yet financial groups are predicting that water is the next major commodity, to be bought... more
A series of 50 AMS dates on charred cooking residues removed from the interiors of pottery sherds is reviewed. The sherds were recovered from many of the key sites and components used by Ritchie and Funk to create the Woodland Stage of... more
A basic premise of archaeology is that the more frequently two human populations interacted with one another the more similar was their material culture. A corollary of this is that the closer two human populations are to one another... more
A slide show on the archaeological evidence of prehistoric Native Americans in New York City and northern New Jersey (with a focus on Inwood, northern Manhattan), from more than 6,000 years ago until the 1600s.
Periods and typologies are artificial boxes that archaeologists use to classify cultures and the artifacts that they used. Consequently, there is a need to re-evaluate old paradigms as new data become available, particularly when these... more
Durham boats were a vital part of eastern North American inland transportation during the 18th and 19th centuries, but are underrepresented in the archaeological record. The discovery of a 19th-century shipwreck in Oneida Lake, New York,... more
Arthur C. Parker (1881–1955) is well known amongst American archaeologists as former New York State Archaeologist, former director of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences (now Rochester Museum and Science Center), first president of... more
ABSTRACT The Ripley Site (NYSM 2490) is an Erie Nation earthwork site located in Chautauqua County, New York on the bluffs above southeastern Lake Erie. The site is also known as Dewey’s Knoll and this location has been the center of... more
The Early Holocene period remains the least understood segment of lower Great Lakes prehistory. This paper provides a descriptive and synthetic catalog of curated Early and Middle Archaic projectile points from the Niagara Frontier of... more
Arthur Caswell Parker was one of the first of his kind as an indigenous archaeologist. As a Seneca scientist with roots on the Cattaraugus territory where his grandparents lived, he had a foot in two worlds that may have aided with... more
In spring 2010, an archaeological reconnaissance survey was conducted in the Village of Constantia, Oswego County New York near the north shore of Oneida Lake. The survey was for an ostensibly low-effect NY State Department of... more
(MA Thesis) This paper provides an landscape analysis of nineteenth century Genesee County, New York. The following discussion employs the concepts of Central Place Theory and Power of Place to examine the Euro-American construction of... more
The research in this dissertation focuses on how the substantial growth of archaeological research over the years has affected museum collections. Due to the increased rates of collection, museums have become repositories of an... more
Owasco is a culture-historic taxon originally defined by Arthur C. Parker and later refined by William A. Ritchie in the first half of the twentieth century. This taxon was at the heart of a debate on northern Iroquoian origins in the... more
There are a several documented cases of Late Archaic camps occurring on or adjacent to glacial kames and drumlins in New York State. Recent investigations have resulted in the identification of multiple short-term Late Archaic... more
Cultural resources management, archaeology, and public interpretation of the Rhodes Site in southern New York. The site consisted of the buried remnants of a mid-19th century domestic household with historical association to the Delaware... more
Native Americans developed agronomic practices throughout the Western Hemisphere adapted to regional climate, edaphic conditions, and the extent of dependence on agriculture for subsistence. These included the mounding or "corn hill"... more
This paper examines a bedrock mortar feature discovered in an Elk County, Pennsylvania rock shelter. Mortar features are remnants of food processing activity associated with the grinding of nuts and corn. It is proposed here that many of... more
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer program that allows a user to blend quantitative research methods and cartographic resources to analyze data, run queries, build research models and illustrate spatial information across... more
"The adoptions of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the American Midwest remain critical lines of inquiry as the articles in this volume of Midwest Archaeologial Conference Inc. Occasional Papers amply... more
The earliest widespread pottery in northeastern North America is known as Vinette 1, a designation made by Ritchie and MacNeish (1949) over 60 years ago. While variation exists within this type (Taché 2005), external and internal... more
"The Early Holocene period remains the least understood segment of lower Great Lakes prehistory. This paper provides a descriptive and synthetic catalog of curated Early and Middle Archaic projectile points from the Niagara Frontier of... more
The Early Holocene period remains the least understood segment of lower Great Lakes prehistory. This paper provides a descriptive and synthetic catalog of curated Early and Middle Archaic projectile points from the Niagara Frontier of... more
This poster presents a new classification system for early pottery in New York based on Native American color symbolism and standardized fabric attributes. This typology replaces the existing and problematic descriptive system currently... more
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