Daniel Mazeau

CRSP Principal Investigator
518-408-1772

M.A., Anthropology, 2000, University at Buffalo
B.A. Anthropology, 1998, University at Albany

Prehistoric archaeology of Northeast U.S., lithic analysis, settlement patterns and landscape systems, socioeconomic anthropology, sociopolitical systems and structure, and coastal archaeology and adaptation.

Current CRSP Projects:

  • Data Recovery of the Engels Farm site, Colonie, New York. 
  • Data Recovery of the Papscanee Creek Site 3, East Greenbush, New York.
  • Archaeological Monitoring of the Rehabilitation of NYS Route 4, Hudson Falls, New York.

Current Research Projects:

  • Lithic resource exploitation and tool production in Southern New York (with Sean Higgins).
  • Pre-contact settlement patterns on Long Island, New York.
  • History of Long Island Archaeology.
  • Settlement patterns and lithic economy in the upper Hudson River Valley

Publications

2015

E. Landing, S. Westrop 2015, Late Cambrian (middle Furongian) Shallow-Marine Dysoxic Mudstone with Calcrete and Brachiopod–Olenid–Lotagnostus Faunas in Avalonian Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Geological Magazine 152, 973-992. 10.1017/S001675681400079X
E. Landing, VanAller Hernick, F. Mannolini, D. Potvin-Leduc, R. Cloutier 2015, Middle Devonian (Givetian) Sharks from Cairo, New York (USA): Evidence of Early Cosmopolitanism, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60, 183-200. 10.4202/app.2012.0101

2014

Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, J., Waters, C., Landing, E., 2014. Is the Fossil Record of Complex Animal Behaviour a Stratigraphical Analogue for the Anthropocene?, in: Waters, N., Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Ellis, M., Snelling, A. (Eds.), A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene. Geological Society of London, London, pp. 143-148.
E. Landing, S. Westrop, J. Adrain, T. Karin 2014, Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Stairsian Stage (upper Tremadocian) of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, Western United States, Memoirs of the Associaiton of Australasian Palaeontologists 45, 167–214.
E. Landing, G. Retallack 2014, Affinities and Architecture of Devonian Trunks of Prototaxites loganii, Mycologia , 1143-1158. 10.3852/13-390
E. Landing, G.J. Retallack 2014, Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks of Prototaxites loganii, Mycologia 106, 1143-1158. 10.3852/13-390
E. Landing, G.J. Retallack 2014, Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks Prototaxites loganii. Supplement., Mycology 106, . doi:10.3852/13-390

2013

G. Geyer, E. Landing, M. Brasier, S. Bowring 2013, Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: Context, Correlation, and Chronostratigraphy—Overcoming Deficiencies of the First Appearance Datum (FAD) Concept, Earth-Science Reviews 123, 133-172. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.03.008
E. Landing, M. Williams, M. Mohibullah 2013, First Middle Ordovician Ostracods from Western Avalonia: Paleogeographical and Paleoenvironmental Significance, Journal of Paleontology 87, 269-276. 10.1666/12-065R1.1
E. Landing, S. Westrop, S. Bowring 2013, Reconstructing the Avalonia Palaeocontinent in the Cambrian: A 519 Ma Caliche in South Wales and Transcontinental Middle Terreneuvian Sandstones, Geology Magazine 150, 1022-1046. 10.1017/S0016756813000228