New York (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

PROJECT Uploaded by: McKenna McMahon

This project investigated problem areas associated with repair or in-kind replacement of exterior materials and addresses possible suitable substitute materials.

PROJECT University at Albany.

The 4E survey was two cultural resource management projects that were carried out during the planning stages of the Mohawk Valley Project in 1981. The two CRM projects were focused on the area along the Mohawk Barge Canal where canal engineers anticipated dumping dredging soil from the channel, which needed deepening to accommodate anticipated barge traffic. There were four areas surveyed, and they all were located in areas where the modern barge canal does not occupy the original Mohawk River...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Justin DiVirgilio

Phase III data recovery at various contexts ranging from a 17th-c. trader's hut to 19th-c. industrial and commercial contexts at 625 Broadway, Albany, NY, in advance of the construction of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation headquarters. Topics covered in the analysis include 17th-c. colonial trade and contact, production of wampum, evidence of a city-wide fire in 1797, a dump of painted pearlware from about 1797, analysis of the early 19th-c. Albany Female Academy,...

PROJECT Uploaded by: system user

This project includes documents related to the history and historical background of the Antiquities Act and its implementation during the century since its enactment. The Antiquities Act was signed into law in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The history of American conservation often is told in terms of legal milestones, and rightly so. An environmental activist working to expand a local park, a historic preservationist trying to save a cherished old building, a volunteer working on a...

PROJECT Brian Crane.

This project developed guidance on how to slow the growth in volume of materials requiring long-term curation and allow for future efficient management of collections of undetermined, little or no research potential. Guidance is given to relate collection management plans to associated project research designs. These guidelines should be distributed to DoD cultural resources subject matter experts and cultural resources managers for implementation. The best practices presented would be...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

The Aurora site was previously named the Harris site after the family name of the landowner. Shovel testing was carried out at this site from July 25, 1978 to Aug. 3, 1978. Crews returned and continued shovel testing the following summer from July 25, 1979 to July 30, 1979. Shovel test pits were excavated throughout the test area which encompasses the two separate swampy areas on the Harris farm. A single artifact was uncovered by the SUNY at Albany 1978 summer investigation. This bovid...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

This site was chosen for testing and excavation as a result of preliminary survey work conducted in the area by SUNY at Albany in 1974 that suggested there were a series of small camps in the area during the Archaic and later periods. The site was initially investigated on July 23, 1975. Investigations conducted between July 6, 1979 and July 23, 1979 were intended to test the hypothesis that Archaic and later period camps existed in this area and to determine the sizes of the site loci and the...

PROJECT University at Albany.

The Boat Launching Site is located on the west side of South Bay and north of Route 22 and the New York State Boat Launch. The site includes the area from the northern tip of the peninsula south to Route 22, and from the knoll western descent east to the water. The site was excavated July 9 and 10, 1979.

PROJECT Dean Snow.

The Bray (Battle Hill) site is associated with The Lake George Project. The Bray Site (ALB 143) is located on the lower slopes of Battle Hill. The site is a prehistoric cultural resource and was discovered by Edward Krause. The excavations here took place from July 9th until 1st of August 1979. The site was named after the landowner who was Dana S. Bray. Out of the 243 sites that were given a provisional site number with the ALB prefix only 54 sites that were tested and produced artifacts...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Dean Snow

The project contains files relating to the excavation of the site called Caughnawaga, a Mohawk site near Fonda, New York. The site was site was excavated over the course of the years from 1948 to 1956 by the Van Epps-Hartley Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association. Floor plans resulting from these excavations were assemble electronically as part of the Mohawk Valley Project (1982-1995). Artifacts from the excavations remain with the chapter.

PROJECT Dean Snow. University at Albany. The Pennsylvania State University.

Cayadutta is a Mohawk Iroquois site that was partially excavated as part of the Mohawk Valley Project (1982-1995). Cayadutta was investigated in 1988 and 1999. Documents include a catalog guide, a catalog, floor plans, and a report from the 1929 Follette excavations.

PROJECT University at Albany.

The Clark sites exist in the Mettawee Archaeological District on the slope of a bluff overlooking an old channel of the Mettawee River. The four defined loci are listed as Clark 1-4. Clark 1 is the major site, and the other three are minor in comparison. The excavations on the sites took place in the summer of 1977.

PROJECT Benjamin Heckman. Bradley Russell. Matthew Kirk.

A Phase III Data Recovery Excavation was conducted at the Clinton and Lark Historic Archeological Site (A00140.004690) by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. in July of 2020. The goal of the Project was to identify intact archeological deposits and features to excavate and record, as part of the mitigation effort. The Project entailed mechanical stripping of 156.6 m2 (1626 ft2, or 0.37 acres) as well as excavation and documentation of identified cultural features. Five features were...

PROJECT Megan Tooker.

This project highlights two objectives: (1) to research and develop new job descriptions for architectural historian, cultural resources manager (CRM), and historic preservationist technician/specialist, and (2) to review the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) current job classifications for architectural historians, historic preservationists, and CRMs and then present a plan to improve the hiring process for those positions by recommending changes and additions to job classifications.

PROJECT Chad Blackwell.

This project created a guide that collects existing standards, guidance, and best practices on cultural resources interpretation and public outreach and examples of interpretation and public outreach projects. This project developed an evaluation rubric for comparing effectiveness of diverse project types and used that data to develop a source book of best examples and guidance to help DoD components and installations to develop their own creative cultural resources interpretation and public...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Justin DiVirgilio

From 2003 to 2005, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. conducted a series of archeological investigations in advance of the construction of a parking facility in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood of Albany, New York. The archeological examination, required by Section 14.09 of the New York State Historic Preservation Act, focused on two urban residential lots on Sheridan Avenue, occupied about 1840-1920. For most of the 19th century, the neighborhood was occupied by Irish immigrants and...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Justin DiVirgilio

Hartgen conducted a Phase III data retrieval for the construction of a 600-car parking garage by the State University Construction Fund. The data retrieval focused on a city block along Albany's colonial waterfront. Archaeologists analyzed the remains of several late 18th to mid 19th-century residences and businesses built over landfill along the Hudson River. Beneath this were evidence of colonial land reclamation consisting of timber bulkheads and ricking, as well as the stockade which...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

Department of Defense archaeological collections generally have not been curated to the standards required by 36 CFR Part 79. This report, based on a study in the eastern United States, identified potential partners, evaluated their capabilities to manage DoD archaeological collections, and collected baseline administrative information associated with such a project.

PROJECT Tina Reames.

This project provides guidelines intended to facilitate the planning of rehabilitation projects that will result in improved energy efficiency in historic buildings operated by the Department of Defense (DoD) and help the DoD meet historic preservation and energy savings design goals.

PROJECT Uploaded by: William Engelbrecht

This project contains data from 17 seasons of excavation from the Eaton Site in West Seneca, NY just south of the city of Buffalo. It is a multi-component site that was occupied intermittently from late Paleo-Indian times through the early 19th century when it contained a cabin on what was then the Buffalo Creek Reservation. The bulk of material recovered from the site is from an Iroquoian village dating to the mid-sixteenth century. The major portions of three longhouses and a palisade...

PROJECT William Starna. Dean Snow. The Pennsylvania State University. University at Albany.

The Elwood site is a Mohawk Iroquois site that was excavated in 1982. This was the first site excavated during the 1982-1995 Mohawk Valley Project. Files include a catalog guide, catalog, the 1985 site report, feature forms, and floor plan forms. The site was occupied between 1450 and 1500 CE.

PROJECT Dean Snow. University at Albany. The Pennsylvania State University.

England's Woods is a site that was test excavated as part of the Mohawk Valley Project in 1987. It is a historic period Mohawk Iroquois site.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Francis McManamon

This project includes a variety of products related to the archeological activities carried out by or required by Federal agencies. The agencies include land managing agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management or the National Park Service. Other agencies carry out or fund development activities, such as the Federal Highway Administration or the Bureau of Reclamation. Some agencies focus on regulatory activities, such as licenses issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. All of...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

The Metawee District lists this site as being owning by Foote, Mitchinson, & Crachi in 1979 when excavations occurred. The Foote site is located close to water, near an oxbow lake, and thus has river characteristics an steep banks due to the oxbow. The SE corner of the site was surveyed in a systematic fashion and the remaining quadrants were sampled with shovel test pits. The site produced 47 cataloged objects and provided evidence that prehistoric woodland groups were utilizing the woodland...