Dr. Christina Rieth

State Archaeologist and Co-Director, Cultural Resource Survey Program
christina.rieth@nysed.gov
518-402-5975

My research focuses on the ways that prehistoric groups interacted with their local environment and the role that such interaction had on the settlement and subsistence strategies of New York’s Late Prehistoric (A.D. 700-1450) occupants. The relationship between humans and their natural and cultural environment is of importance in understanding pre-Contact diversity. The choices that we make concerning the types of resources that are used, the interactions that we form with neighboring groups in acquiring these resources, and how we modify the local landscape all influence the resulting behaviors and material culture. Field and collections based research form the basis for addressing these issues. 

Finally, I am interested in public archaeology and the ways that archaeologists make information about and incorporate the public into its study of the past. Through an active program of field and collections based research, I am interested in making information about the archaeological past accessible to all New Yorkers.

My Research Projects

Publications

2006

Rieth, C., 2006. Archaeology, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 236-244.
Rieth, C., 2006. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 875-876.
Rieth, C., 2006. Leslie A. White, in: Birx, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 2310-2311.
Rieth, C., 2006. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 1981.
Rieth, C., 2006. Salvage Archaeology, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 259-261.
Rieth, C., 2006. Upland Settlement and Subsistence in Eastern New York, in: Nash, C., Barber, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Uplands Archaeology in the East IX Conference. Archaeological Society of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, pp. 2-15.
C. Rieth, M. Boyle 2006, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1096.21.101, Route 50 over the Indian Kill, Town of Glenville, Schenectady County, New York.. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
C. Rieth, M.S. LoRusso, R. Dean 2006, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1006.97.101, Route 143, Town of Coeymans, Albany County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
C. Rieth, T. Thomas 2006, Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 2038.38, Route 46, Village of Oneida, Madison County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
C. Rieth, D. Mazeau 2006, Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Naimia Site, PIN 0054.05.124, Route 347 from the Northern State Parkway to Route 25A, Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York