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African Burial Ground
An update in the African-American Archaeology Newsletter, about this site near Five Points in New York City; a second article on some of the laboratory work is also in this issue, you'll have to scroll down some to find it.
     Under City Hall Park article in Archaeology magazine.

Five Points
Archaeological investigations in downtown Manhattan reveal that the infamous 19th century slum of Five Points was neither as frightening, nor as slum-like, as Dickens and others portrayed it.

Goat Island
Three sites in northern Dutchess County, excavations focus on Goat Island Rockshelter, with Archaic and Woodland period occupations; excavations by Elizabeth Chilton, in an article for the Hudson Valley Regional Review.

Grouse Bluff
A small Archaic period campsite excavated by Bard College; an article in the Hudson Valley Regional Review

Lott House
An interactive dig of the 1720 Brooklyn farmstead, from Archaeology Online.

Thomas Luckey site
SUNY at Binghamton conducts field school-based research at this Late Woodland occupation in New York state.

The Martin Site
Archaic and Woodland occupations of upstate New York. Journal of World Anthropology.

Old Fort Niagara
A historic fort site at the mouth of the Niagara River; military occupations started here in 1679.
     Old Fort Niagara: On-Line Archaeology From Elizabeth Pena at the University of Buffalo, panoramas, photographs, and a wealth of information about the fort.

Pelham
From Blake Bell, the Village Historian of historic Pelham, an indepth look at the history of this small town, including ghosts and legends.

Plus Site
An early fall site used by the Cayuga Indians of the Iroquois Confederacy, archaeological investigations by SUNY at Binghamton.

West Point Foundry
From Michigan Technological University, a field school at one of four factories established in 1817 by President James Madison to manufacture heavy artillery.

Research Institutions

SUNY at Binghamton Public Archaeology Facility
CRM research in New York state.

University of Buffalo
Demography, iconography, technology, complex societies; North and Middle America, Northern and Eastern Europe, and the Pacific.

City University of New York New York
MA, PhD. Historical Ecology, Global Change research; urban New York to rural Iceland, with particular strengths in Mesoamerica, Ecuador, South Asia, Near East, Europe, and North America.

Columbia University New York
MA, MPhil, PhD.

Columbia University (Art History & Archaeology) New York
MA, PhD

Cornell University Ithaca
MA, PhD  Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Mesoamerica, Oceania, Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean

Cornell University (History of Art) Ithaca
PhD

New York University (Anthro) New York
MA, PhD Anthropological Archaeology

New York State Anthropological Survey
From the New York State Museum, conducts anthropological and archaeological research throughout the state and the northeastern U.S.

New York University (Institute of Fine Arts) New York
MA, PhD Classical art and archaeology, and combined Near Eastern Studies

State University of New York, Albany Albany
MA, PhD, Historical and Mesoamerican

State University of New York, Binghamton Binghamton
MA, PhD.

SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo
MA, PhD, demographic growth and decline, the meaning of art and iconographic images, the organization of technology and production systems, cultural constructions of the past, and the origins and evolution of complex societies

SUNY at Buffalo-Classics Buffalo Buffalo
MA, PhD

Syracuse University Syracuse
MA, PhD.

Current Researchers

Abel, Timothy J. and David N. Fuerst
A Synthesis of the Prehistory of the St. Lawrence River Headwates Region, New York and Ontario, abstract of a paper delivered at the 1996 Eastern States Archaeological Federation.

Kent G. Lightfoot and Robert M. Cerrato
Prehistoric Shellfish Exploitation in Coastal New York, Sungic Midden site on Shelter Island; article abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Maria Liston
University of Waterloo, skeletal biologist and archaeologist, Crete, and British and colonial soldiers at Fort William Henry, in New York.

Nan A. Rothschild
Barnard College at Columbia, prehistoric, historic, and ethno-archaeology; in and around New York City and on the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico.

Stuart D. Scott and others
Reorientation of Historical Maps of Old Fort Niagara Using Computer-Assisted Cartography,   Old Fort Niagara (established 1726) in Youngstown, New York, article abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Cultural History

Iroquois Indian Museum
Maintains an active role in preserving the history and archeology of the Schoharie Mohawk, and conducts an annual field school with SUNY Cobleskill.

New York Archaeological Council
Association for professional archaeologists in the state.

New York State Archaeological Association
Amateur society for the state of New York.

General Information

Hudson River Maritime Museum
Dedicated to the preservation of the maritime history of the Hudson River

Hudson Valley Regional Review
A special online issue on the prehistoric history and archaeology of the Mid-Hudson Region.

Archaeology at About.com

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