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Dr. Christina Rieth

State Archaeologist and Co-Director, Cultural Resource Survey Program

christina.rieth@nysed.gov

518-402-5975

B.A. in Anthropology (1990, Hartwick College)
M.A. in Anthropology (1992, University at Albany, SUNY)
Ph.D. in Anthropology (1997, University at Albany, SUNY)

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

2010

Rieth, C.B., 2010. Cultural Resources Survey Report for PIN AX16.13.701, Documentation of pre-1929 Ferry Landing, Lake Champlain Bridge Project, Town of Crown Point, Essex County, New York. Albany, New York.

Rieth, C.B., 2010. Cultural Resources Historic Preservation Monitoring Report # 1 (August 2010), Crown Point Historic Site, Lake Champlain Bridge Project, Crown Point, New York. Albany, New York.

2009

Rieth, C.B., 2009. Early European Settlement in the Northeast, in: McManamon, F.P., Cordell, L.S., Lightfoot, K.G., Milner, G. (Eds.), Archaeology In America: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 25-28.

Rieth, C.B., 2009. Reanalyzing Scale in the Eastern Woodlands: The View from Eastern New York., in: Miroff, L., Knapp, T. (Eds.), Iroquoian Archaeology And Analytical Scale. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee, pp. 1-18.

Rieth, C.B., 2009. Schoharie Creek III Site, Town of Jefferson, Schoharie County, New York. Newsletter of the New York Archaeology Council 3.

Rieth, C.B., 2009. Letter Report Documenting Historic Significance of Pier Locations along Route 9P, City of Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York. Albany, New York.

Lynch, A., Rieth, C.B., Schmitt, V.A., Ross, J., 2009. Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3501.52.101, Sentinel Heights Road over Interstate 81, Town of Onondaga County, New York. Albany, New York.

Rieth, C.B., 2009. Cultural Resources Monitoring Plan for the Rosendale Culvert, Route 213, Town of Rosendale, Ulster County, New York. Albany, New York.

Lynch, A., Rieth, C.B., LoRusso, M.S., 2009. Cultural Resource Pre-Reconnaissance and Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3104.18.101/BIN 4045180, Route 298, Bear Street, City of Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. Albany, New York.

Sobik, C., Rieth, C.B., 2009. Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1236.21.101, Route 29 over Black Creek, Town of Salem, Washington County, New York. Albany, New York.