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

2004

C. Rieth 2004, Cultural Resources Survey Program Workscope Specification for New York State Department of Transportation Projects. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2004, Research Design for 2004 NYSM/University at Albany, SUNY Field School Excavations at the Pethick Site, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2004, Protection for Archaeological Remains on State Land. Suffolk County Archaeological Association Newsletter 30, 1-2
C. Rieth 2004, Research Permits from State-owned Land. Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Newsletter March, 5-6

2003

C. Rieth 2003, New York State Museum Activities, New York Archaeological Council Newsletter Fall, 11-13.
C. Rieth 2003, Research Permits and Archaeological Collections from State-Owned Land, New York Archaeological Council Newsletter Fall, 3.
C. Rieth 2003, Research Permits and Archaeological Excavation on State Land, Fort George Advice, Newsletter of the Fort George Historical Association Fall, 8-9.
C. Rieth, D. Staley, A. Lain 2003, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey and Site Examination Report for the OGS Cemetery Site, Greene County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York

2002

C. Rieth, J. Hart 2002, Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 1300, New York State Museum Bulletin The University of the State of New York, Albany, NY
C. Rieth 2002, Review of the Iroquoian Ceramic Industry and Its Influence by Penelope Rogers and Antoinette Rast-Eicher, Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 25, 27-29.