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

2012

C. Rieth 2012, Settlement and Subsistence at a Middle Woodland Camp in Eastern New York, North American Archaeologist 33, 81-105. 10.2190/NA.33.1.e
C. Rieth 2012, Cultural Resources Data Recovery Report of the Schoharie Creek II Site (NYSM \# 10383): A Multi-Component Site in the Village of Central Bridge, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York, New York State Museum Cultural Resource Survey Program Series The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2012, Cultural Resources Data Recovery Report of the Schoharie Creek II Site (NYSM \# 10383): A Multi-Component Site in the Village of Central Bridge, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York, New York State Museum Cultural Resource Survey Program Series The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2012, Cultural Resources Screening Report for PIN 1335.18, Route 40 over the Hoosick River, Rensselaer County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2012, Historic Preservation Monitoring Report \# 18 for the Lake Champlain Bridge Project, Crown Point, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York

2011

C. Rieth 2011, Review of Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management: Visions for the Future., Anthropology Review Database , .
C. Rieth, J. Hart 2011, Current Research in New York State Archaeology: A.D. 700-1300, New York State Museum Record The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
C. Rieth, J. Hart 2011, Current Research in New York State Archaeology: A.D. 700-1300, New York State Museum Record The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
Hart, J., 2011. The Death of Owasco—Redux, in: Rieth, C., Hart, J. (Eds.), Current Research in New York State Archaeology: A.D. 700-1300. The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York, pp. 95-108.
Hart, J., Anderson, L., Feranec, R., 2011. Additional Evidence for cal. Seventh-Century A.D. Maize Consumption at the Kipp Island Site, New York, in: Rieth, C., Hart, J. (Eds.), Current Research in New York State Archaeology: A.D. 700-1300. The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York, pp. 27-40.