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

2019

R. Feranec, J. Hart 2019, Fish and maize: Bayesian mixing models of fourteenth- through seventeenth-century AD ancestral Wendat diets, Ontario, Canada, Scientific Reports 9, 16658. 10.1038/s41598-019-53076-7
Larisa DeSantis, Jonathan Crites, R. Feranec, Kena Fox-Dobbs, Aisling Farrell, John Harris, Gary Takeuchi, Thure Cerling 2019, Causes and Consequences of Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions as Revealed from Rancho La Brea Mammals, Current Biology 29, 2488-2495. 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.059

2018

Sarah Heins-Ledogar, R. Feranec, Jessica Zuhlke 2018, Isotopic evidence for broad diet including anadromous fish during the mid-Holocene in northeastern North America, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19, 505-512. 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.029
Wysocki, M., Feranec, R., 2018. Analyzing the Tooth Development of Sabertooth Carnivores: Implications Regarding the Ecology and Evolution of Smilodon fatalis, in: Werdelin, L., McDonald, H., Shaw, C. (Eds.), Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 139-152.
Kozlowski, A., Bird, B., Lowell, T., Smith, C., Feranec, R., Graham, B., 2018. Minimum Age of the Mapleton, Tully, and Labrador Hollow Moraines Indicates Correlation with the Port Huron Phase in Central New York State, in: , Quaternary Glaciation of the Great Lakes Region: Process, Landforms, Sediments, and Chronology. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 191–216.
Feranec, R., Kozlowski, A., 2018. Onset Age of Deglaciation Following the Last Glacial Maximum in New York State Based on Radiocarbon Ages of Mammalian Megafauna, in: Kehew, A., Curry, B. (Eds.), Quaternary Glaciation of the Great Lakes Region: Process, Landforms, Sediments, and Chronology. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. .

2017

R. Feranec, A. Kozlowski 2017, Ice Age Mammals Colonize New York: A STEM Lab Derived from Collections-Based Research at the New York State Museum, New York State Museum Education Leaflet New York State Education Department, Albany, New York
L.C. Eastham, R. Feranec, D. Begun 2017, Trace Element Analysis Provides Insight into the Diets of Early Late Miocene Ungulates from the Rudab\ anya II Locality (Hungary), Geologica Acta 15, 231-243. 10.1344/GeologicaActa2017.15.3.6
R. Feranec, D. Pagnac 2017, Hypsodonty, horses, and the spread of C4 grasses during the middle Miocene in southern California, Evolutionary Ecology Research 18, 201–223.
R. Feranec, A. Kozlowski 2017, Ice Age Mammals Colonize New York: A STEM Lab Derived from Collections-Based Research at the New York State Museum, New York State Museum Education Leaflet New York State Education Department, Albany, New York