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NEWS:.
.:4/16/2008: The 2008 New York State Archaeology Season poster has been printed and is available. Check out the design ...read more
.:1/09/2008: The new PAF photo archive is up and running. Head over to our CAP site and check out photos of some of our projects and community programs. All...read more
.:12/07/2006: The Herrick Hollow mini-site is up and running. Follow the link to learn about Archaeology on the Divide, the prehistory of the uplands...read more
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CURRENT PROJECTS:.
.:Hale Eddy: PAF returns to the Hale Eddy area this fall to complete the examination of several...
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Research Themes |
1. Archaeology under Asphalt: case studies in urban archaeology focusing
on social stratification of neighborhoods, class, status, and wealth.
Although it was a challenge to argue the validity of searching under
asphalt for buried, intact remains of historic (and prehistoric) resources.
Our researchers have been able to successfully experiment with using
social concepts rather than purely economic ones to interpret these
sites.
1995 Excavations at the Rainbow Bridge site near Niagara Falls
To learn more about this archaeological site, click here.
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2. Archaeology in the Country: case studies involving the historic
archaeology of rural farmsteads, rural hamlets, early pioneer settlements,
and the consumer practices, decision-making,and social relations
of diverse classes of farmers, skilled craftsmen, tenant farmers,
and single women in the country.This program focuses on the "invisible"
people in the country, those not included in written histories,
but who contributed significantly to the growth and development
of nineteenth century rural America.
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3. Owasco Studies Program: archaeology of Late Woodland Owasco villages
and associated sites (A.D. 700-1400), the first prehistoric farmers
in the Northeast, their community patterns, social organnizations,
division of labor, and the artifact studies that allow us to access
these topics (e.g., lithic stone tool analysis, pottery analysis,
spatial analysis of dwellings, hearths and pits, and paleobotanical
analysis of the plant foods cultivated and collected.
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4. Hunter-Gatherer Studies Program: archaeology of sites, mostly
pre-100 B.C., that relate to the seasonally nomadic hunters and
gatherers of the temperate riverine Northeast. In particular, this
program focuses on whole settlement systems, and integrates non-habitation,
non-subsistence oriented sites into the wholepicture of hunter-gatherer
mobility and settlement. Much of the research resulted from large
regional DOT surveys, as well as large upland surveys for the Tennessee
Gas Pipeline.
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