Mohawk Valley Project

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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,...

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...