Discovery of Early California Sites Fascinates Students of the Past
Send to KindleOver the last few days, data on discoveries made in California’s Channel Islands by teams led by archaeologists Jon Erlandson and Torben Rick have been brought to wide circulation among...
View ArticleLooking Down the Ice-Free Corridor: Another Side of the First Americans Story
Send to KindleBufferThere are two sides to the story of the early peopling of North America, Stuart Fiedel has reminded me in a couple of recent emails. Stuart’s detailed criticism of the data and...
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 2013 New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA) Annual Meeting
Send to KindleBuffer On April 26-28, 2013 NYSAA held its annual meeting in Watertown, New York, in conjunction with the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC) April 26 spring meeting. The NYSAA...
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...
View ArticlePapers on the Paleoindian and Archaic Periods Presented at the 2014 NYSAA...
KindleBuffer On Friday, April 11 I traveled down I-88 to the Spring, 2014 meetings of the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC) and the New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA). I am always...
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