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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,...
Artifact Inventory, 625 Broadway Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
Artifact inventory for Phase III at 625 Broadway site, Albany, NY.
Artifact Inventory, Quackenbush Parking Garage Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2002)
Artifact inventory for Phase III at the Quackenbush Square site, Albany, NY.
Artifacts from Occupation 1 (Contact-1654), Brickmaker's House, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
Photos of selected artifacts collected from Occupation 1 contexts at the Brickmaker's House in the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY.
Artifacts from Occupation 2 (1654-1686), Brickmaker's House, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
Photos of selected artifacts collected from Occupation 2 contexts at the Brickmaker's House in the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY.
Beyond the North Gate: Archeology on the Outskirts of Colonial Albany. Archeological Data Retrieval, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility, Broadway, Albany, New York (2005)
Report of data recovery results from the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site in Albany, NY. The pdf report focuses on the detailed excavation of a rum distillery (c.1750s-1820s) and a brickmaker's house and brickyard (c.1630s-1680s). The report includes micro/macroscopic analyses of faunal and floral materials, pollen, parasites,and heavy metal contents. The report also provides deep historical context to rum production and early colonial settlement in Albany and the Northeast.
Brickmaker's House, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2002)
Photographs of the 17th-c. brickmaker's house portion of the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site.
Dutch Treats: Archaeological Evidence of the Dutch Trade with Seventeenth-Century Virginians (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Maryland’s Ancient [Seat] and Chief of Government: Papers in Honor of Henry M. Miller" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through the years, scholars have acknowledged that, aside from the English, no Europeans were more involved in the commercial and political affairs of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake than the Dutch. Dr. Henry Miller’s archaeological research in Historic St. Mary’s City has indicated...
Edward Byrd’s Mass-Production of EB Tobacco Pipes for Sale to New Netherland Natives and the 17th Century Delaware River (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Six tobacco pipes--Native, Dutch, and English--excavated at the site of the Printzhof on Tinicum Island, capital of New Sweden Colony in the 1650s, reflects a vibrant international market along the Delaware River. English exile Edward Byrd’s funnel-angled white clay EB pipes in that collection represent (1)...
"The Hollanders Have Built A Fortress With Four Bastions:" A Synopsis Of The Archaeological Investigations At The Site Of Fort Casimir/Nieuwer Amstel, City of New Castle, Delaware. (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Casimir was a 17th-century fortification defending the town of New Amstel, today’s New Castle, Delaware. Casimir was the center of power for the Dutch West India Company, and later, the City of Amsterdam on the South (Delaware) River. The fort changed hands four times – built by the Dutch in 1651,...
Leatherstocking Precontact Site 2
Leatherstocking Site 2 was discovered in the Town of Windsor, New York, east of the Susquehanna River. It is adjacent to the reputed location of the Onaquaga, a 17th and 18th-century Iroquoian village, and contains pit features and evidence of potential Native and American structures.
Leatherstocking Precontact Site 2 (2017)
A phase III report of the Leatherstocking Site 2 site discovered in the Town of Windsor, on the flood plain east of the Susquehanna River. It is adjacent to the reputed location of Onaquaga, a 17th-and 18th-century Iroquoian village, and contains pit features and evidence of potential Native / American structures.
Mapping Minisink: An Ambiguous Center in New Netherland (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the many meanings of Minisink, a Munsee region stretching from the Delaware Water Gap to Port Jervis, New York. Usually thought to mean "at the island," Minisink was a major Native center since at least the start of the Late Woodland Period and well into the mid-eighteenth century. The...
On the Outside Looking In: Four Centuries of Change at 625 Broadway, Archeology at the DEC Headquarters, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York. (2002)
Report of Phase III Data Recovery at the 625 Broadway Historic Archaeological Site. Includes all appendices and artifact inventory. Report broken out into 12 chapters covering various aspects of the site.
Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY
Phase III data recovery and subsequent investigations for Section 106 compliance in Albany, NY. The project focused on recovery of archaeological data from three colonial and early federal contexts. The first two were a brickyard and brickmaker's house from the 17th century. The house was built in the 1630s to lease to a brickmaker; it was burned and rebuilt in the 1650s and finally abandoned about 1686. The brickyard operated from about 1654 until the late 1680s. The third context was a rum...
Quamhemesicos (Van Schaick) Island: Archeological Evidence of European-Mahican Interactions at the Twilight of Dutch Colonialism in New York (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archeological excavations on the east side of Van Schaick Island near Albany, New York have revealed a circa 1650 Dutch trading outpost with contemporaneous, related Mahican occupation on the site. An assemblage of trade items and Mahican artifacts document brief but intense interactions near the end...
A Question of Identity: Lessons From the 1916 World Trade Center Shipwreck (2023)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1916, workmen excavating a tunnel for the New York City subway uncovered a ship’s badly charred keel along with several Dutch artifacts. The construction foreman, unable to fully excavate the wreck, managed to retrieve the exposed part of it and document its location. The foreman believed the wreck belonged to the Tijger, a 17th century Dutch fur trading ship captained by Adriaen...
Rockly Bay Research Project: Archaeology of a Naval Battle 2012 Field Season (2013)
In 1677, a French squadron attempted to wrestle control of Tobago from the Dutch West Indies Company. The crucial battle of Rockly Bay was one of the largest fought in the Caribbean in the 1600s. In the 1990s, Mr. Wes Hall of Mid-Atlantic Technologies, LLC, located shipwrecks tentatively associated with that battle. Based on archival data and the known positions of the ships in the battle line, it is likely that these are some of the Dutch ships. The University of Connecticut and the Institute...
Shared Bodies: Social Patterns in Rural East Jersey and the Formation of an African American Community (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Using early 19th-century membership records from the Church of Paramus, this study proposes that systems of indirect enslavement used by Dutch descended families in Bergen County, New Jersey, fulfilled their domestic, farm, and possibly construction labor requirements. The...
Site Photographs and Figures, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
Plan map of entire site and photographs of the rum distillery complex taken during a public information day in 2001.
Some Datable Artifacts from Remains of the Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh House of ca. 1650-1664 in Fort Orange (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Dutch West India Company constructed Fort Orange in 1624 on the west bank of the Hudson River about 150 miles north of Manhattan Island. In 1647 the Company began allowing private traders to build houses within the fort. Dutch deeds specified the locations of the private houses. Excavations revealed...
"Whereon ye Ould Foart Stood…:" Geophysical and archaeological investigations at the site of Fort Casimir, New Castle, Delaware (2013)
Fort Casimir, also known as Fort Trefaldighet, was a seventeenth-century fortification situated along the Delaware River. The fort changed hands four times in its short career – built by the Dutch in 1651, captured by the Swedes in 1654, retaken by the Dutch in 1655, and finally seized by the English in 1664. Serving as a focal point of early colonial settlement in the Delaware River valley, its precise location remains both elusive and intriguing to Delaware archeologists. The first attempt to...