Native American Archaeology | The New York State Museum
Current research is aimed at increasing our understandings of the earliest Native American occupants of New York, between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago; the histories of various …
Native American Archaeology - New York State Museum
Available for research and exhibit loan, these collections document the sweep of Native American prehistory across the New York region. Chronologically, the collections include artifacts from …
Native American Archaeology
West Athens Hill is well known as one of the oldest prehistoric archaeological sites in New York, dating to circa 12,500 years ago, and documents one of the earliest encampments of Native …
Native American Archaeology
Put another way, when did Native Americans first people the region that we now call New York? These questions are difficult to answer because there are no radiocarbon-dated sites of these …
New York Projectile Points | The New York State Museum
Before the mid-1900s, early archaeologists relied on relative dating to estimate the antiquity of Native American artifacts or prehistoric sites. By this approach, archaeologists used …
Research and Collections of Arthur C. Parker
Arthur C. Parker was the first full-time archaeologist at the New York State Museum from 1906 until 1925. Born on the Cattaraugus Seneca Reservation, he was initially hired as an …
Native American Archaeology
New York State Museum archaeologists have identified archaeological remains associated with a small Early Archaic camp dating to approximately 8,000 B.C. along the shore of Lake George …
pdrooker | The New York State Museum
As much as 95 percent of Native American material culture – houses, clothing, containers, hunting and fishing implements – was fashioned from organic materials such as wood, bark, plant …
Field Trip to the NYSM: The Oldest Artifacts in New York
Join Curator of Archaeology, Jonathan Lothrop, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the archaeology and artifacts of West Athens Hill and learn how early Native Americans survived …
The New York Paleoindian Database Project (NYPID)
As part of ongoing research on Native American adaptations during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in New York, the NYSM has renewed its commitment to the statewide …