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

2007

A. Gore, M.S. LoRusso 2007, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7143.31.121, Route 11/East Main Street, Village of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York.. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
A. Gore, S. Moragne, R. Morgan 2007, Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 7143.31.121, Route 11/E. Main Street, Village of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York.. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
A. Gore 2007, Phase I and II Archaeological Survey on NYSM \# 11760, Fort La Presentation, City of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York.. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York

2006

A. Gore, V. Schmitt 2006, Addendum Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Towns of Beekmantown and Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
A. Gore 2006, Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Veder and Elliot Site, Town of Lysander, Onondaga County, New York.. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
A. Gore 2006, Phase II Cultural Resource Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Lombard, Culver Hill, Pinsonnault, East Beekman Community, and Howe Site, Towns of Plattsburgh and Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York.. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York

2005

A. Gore, V. Schmitt 2005, Addendum Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Town of Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
A. Gore, V. Schmitt 2005, Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7049.16.122, Route 812 over the Oswegatchie River, St. Lawrence County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
A. Gore 2005, Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7780.04.102, Wetland Mitigation Along Route 72, Town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York

2004

A. Gore, V. Schmitt 2004, Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Route 374-Haynes Road, Towns of Plattsburgh and Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York