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

D. Mazeau, M.S. LoRusso 2007, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1941.08.121, East Street Bridge, Fort Edward, Washington County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
D. Mazeau 2007, Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 0054.05.124, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York.. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York

2006

Hutson, S., Magnoni, A., Mazeau, D., Stanton, T., 2006. The Archaeology of Urban Households at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico, in: Mathews, J.P., Morrison, B.A. (Eds.), The Northern Lowlands: New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatan Peninsula. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, pp. 77-99.
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
D. Mazeau, V. Schmitt 2006, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2134.27.121, NY Rte 5, Between Higinbotham Brook and Oneida Creek, City of Oneida, Madison County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York

2005

D. Mazeau, M.S. LoRusso 2005, Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 1940.98.101, Ryder Road Detour, Village and Town of Whitehall, Washington County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
D. Mazeau 2005, DEC Ridge Environmental Center, Village of Ridge, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
B. Dahlin, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, D. Hixson, S. Hudson, A. Mangnoni, E. Mansell, D. Mazeau 2005, Reconstructing Agricultural Self-Sufficiency at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico, Ancient Mesoamerica 16, 229-247. 10.1017/S0956536105050212

2004

D. Mazeau 2004, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3287.15.121, NYS Route 370, From the Village of Cato to the Village of Meridian, Town of Cato, Cayuga County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
D. Mazeau, B. Dale, M. Boyle 2004, Rt.2 Bridge Replacement Over the Lil’ Hoosick, Town of Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York