Dean Snow's Projects

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 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 Dean Snow.

The Bacon Pond site is a kettle hole pond dating from the last glaciations of the region. The site was chosen for test excavations due to the presence of this feature. Excavators were also hopeful of reconstructing the changes in the environment over the past 12,000 years through the analysis of pollen cores. Excavations took place at the site between July 7 - July 20,1977, and from June 28 - August 3, 1978. Numerous shovel test pits and excavation squares were investigated and documented at...

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 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 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...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

The Fort Ann Quarry Site was sampled in order to provide the laboratory crew with a range of Fort Ann chert samples. These were later used to classify raw materials found at Harrisena and other sites in the Lake George Project area. Fort Ann chert occurs at several locations in the eastern part of the Lake George Project area and unfortunately, more than one of these are locally referred to as "the Fort Ann Quarry" (additional information on these sites can be found in the Fort Ann Quarry Site...

PROJECT Susan E. Bamann. University at Albany.

Fox Lair was discovered by Susan Bamann in 1989 while she was looking for the previously located Johnson site. The location of the Johnson site was incorrect in the New York State Museum files. Bamann found little or nothing where the Johnson site was supposedly located. It's clear that Fox Lair and Johnson are the same site. The site is located in the state of New York on a ridge near Otsquago Creek, Fort Plain, and the Mohawk River.

PROJECT University at Albany.

The Galick site was part of the Lake George project. The site was chosen for testing, because the Galick family had secured a large number of artifacts from portions of their farm lying near the narrow southern end of Lake Champlain. However, their collection came from a very large area and test pits on the property revealed no heavy artifact concentrations.

PROJECT University at Albany.

The Garrity site is located in the northwest of the South Bay district. The site was excavated in July of 1979. The fields of the site were divided into five sections. A preliminary survey indicated that the easternmost fields contained the greatest amount of cultural material. These fields were then systematically surveyed. They were called Cornfield 1 (Locus 1) and Cornfield 2 (Locus 2). The remaining area was divided into Zones A-D.

PROJECT Dean Snow. University at Albany.

The Halfway Creek site consists of four loci numbered one through four; all located in a 250 hectare square extending across 149 and across Halfway Creek. Investigation of the site was undertaken as a parallel investigation of the Goodman site. The sites were treated as a single set of eight loci, and later treated as separate sights. The Halfway Creek site was surveyed in the summer of 1978, and tested in the summer of 1979. It was tested by a group of graduate students under the general...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

At the time that the Harrisena Site was first discovered and tested it was usually called the Harris site. To avoid confusion with the other sites named for landowners named Harris, site ALB99 (NYSM #5076) is referred to as the Harrisena site; however, much of the paperwork might also refer to this site as "Harris". The site is located at the northern end of the central of the three portage routes linking the Hudson and Champlain drainages, which touches Lake George at the southern end of...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

Indian Castle is located in the town of Danube. Danube is in the New York county of Herkimer. This site occupies a large area on the south bank of the Mohawk River and is now contained within a National Landmark district. The village was first established in 1693 and the Mohawk community kept a small village here from 1755 to 1776. The village, which is known as Dekanohage was associated with the main upper Mohawk Castle that was located on Prospect Hill in the modern village of Fort Plain...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Amanda Sacks

The site of Jackson-Everson is located on the boundary between St. Johnsville and Palatine, Montgomery County, New York. The site was probably founded by Huron immigrants in 1657, when all the Mohawk villages were still located on the south side of the river. The village remained at the site through the relocation of Mohawk villages to the north side of the river. It was occupied through most of the A.D. 1666-1679 period, but was abandoned by the time Jesuit missionaries and Catholic converts...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

The Lake George Project was designed as a regional archaeological project covering an area defined by twelve continuous USGS quadrangles: Bolton Landing, Fort Ann, Glens Falls, Hartford, Hudson Falls, Lake George, Lake Luzerne, Putnam Mountain, Shelving Rock, The Glen, Warrensburg, and Whitehall. This nearly square area contains portions of the Hudson River, Lake George, and Lake Champlain. It also contains the portage routes linking these bodies of water. During the course of the Lake...

PROJECT Dean Snow. University at Albany.

The Lane site is one of the six sites within the South Bay Archaeological District. It was chosen for test excavation because the Wheeler collection was found to contain many artifacts from this site and because it appeared to be an important component of the proposed archaeological district. The majority of the excavations were accomplished between July 1, 1979 and July 22, 1979. More fieldwork was carried out between October 7, 1979 and October 23, 1979. According to the artifact record,...

PROJECT University at Albany.

The Northwest Bay site excavations were undertaken as part of a larger effort to determine the significance of various archaeological sites for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places on behalf of the New York State Division of Historic Preservation. Through this process, the Northwest Bay site was determined to be ineligible for inclusion on the National Register. At the time, the area to be tested was owned by the State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation. ...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Amanda Sacks

The Oak Hill #1 site is located in Minden, Montgomery County, New York. It includes the village and the adjacent cemetery. This site is important for understanding Mohawk epidemics and population decline in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. Starting in the 1920s the site was dug by Douglas Ayers. In the 1930s, it was dug by John Saunders, Gilbert Hagerty, and Harry Schoff. In 1983, the site was more extensively excavated by a combined team from the University at Albany and the...

PROJECT Dean Snow. University at Albany.

This is a catalog guide for the Otstungo site, which was excavated as part of the Mohawk Valley Project. The guide contains necessary metadata in narrative form and instructions to users regarding the use of the catalog and other files associated with this one. Users should also access the pdf version of Mohawk Valley Archaeology: The Sites, which contains summary information on this site and others studied during the course of the Mohawk Valley Project.

PROJECT University at Albany.

The Rozell site consisted of 4 known loci, and the assemblage is entirely from surface collection. All recovered artifacts are of chert or stone. The Rozell site is part of the Metawee District and located on the Metawee flood plain.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Jacqueline Don

The Rumrill-Naylor site is located in the town of Root, Montgomery County. It was excavated in 1984 and the site was found to have been occupied from A.D. 1635-1646. It was thought to be the site of Van de Bogaert's "Canagere". This village had a variety of names including Oneugi8re and Andagaron. This site was discovered by Donald Rumrill in 1982. The best collection from this site is at the University at Albany. Students from the University at Albany, the State University College at Oneonta,...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Dean Snow

Archaeological crews under the direction of Dean R. Snow conducted various investigations at Saratoga Battlefield National Historical Park beginning in 1972 and ending in 1986. These reports relate to that work, which was undertaken via several contracts between the National Park Service and the Research Foundation of SUNY. All archaeological resources within the boundaries of the battlefield are protected. Nevertheless, documents that might lead looters to specific resources in the park are not...

PROJECT Dean Snow. University at Albany.

The Second Woods site was excavated as part of the Mohawk Valley Project. The site is located in the town of Minden, New York, and lies on a long ridge that runs westward from the village of Fort Plain. Second Woods is one of several sites clustered in the town of Minden, on the south side of the Mohawk River. It may have been one of the communities that came together later at Otstungo. Second Woods is one of the few excavated examples of small villages that preceded the nucleation and...

PROJECT University at Albany.

The South Bay Southeast site is part of the South Bay District. Amateur collectors had been collecting artifacts in the area for some time. The South Bay Southeast site was originally surveyed from July 22 to August 3, 1976. Due to the abundance of artifacts discovered in the area, part of the shoreline and peninsula of the South Bay District were intensively surveyed in October 1978. Two areas were then selected on the basis of this survey to be excavated further. The Garrity and Boat...

PROJECT University at Albany.

The South Bay Southwest site is part of the South Bay District. Amateur collectors had been collecting artifacts in the area for some time. Due to the abundance of artifacts previously discovered in the area, part of the shoreline and peninsula of the South Bay District were intensively surveyed in October 1978. A number of artifacts were recovered from the surface during the survey of the South Bay Southwest site on October 6 and 7, 1978.