Dr. Charles Ver Straeten

Curator of Sedimentary Rocks
charles.verstraeten@nysed.gov
518-486-2004

My focus is on Devonian Period Sedimentation and Stratigraphy, including sea level history, mountain building and sedimentation, paleoecology, and Devonian volcanic ash layers. In addition, I also study the deposition and preservation of volcanic ash layers in shallow seas and lakes through time.

Publications

2021

P. Drooker 2021, Sources and Significance of Pipestone Artifacts from Fort Ancient Sites, Midcontinenetal Journal of Archaeology 46, 17–52..

2017

P. Drooker 2017, Fabric Fragments from Pine Island, Alabama: Indicator of an Evolving Male Costume Item, Southeastern Archaeology 36, 75-84. 10.1080/0734578X.2016.1247633
Drooker, P., 2017. The Fabric of Power: Textiles in Mississippian Politics and Ritual, in: Waselkov, G., Smith, M. (Eds.), Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, pp. 16-40.

2012

P. Drooker 2012, European Trade Goods at the Ripley Site: Implications for Interaction Networks and Chronology, Northeast Anthropology 77-78, 89-138.

2011

P. Drooker, V. Steponaitis, S. Swanson, G. Wheeler 2011, The Provenance and Use of Etowah Palettes, American Antiquity 76, 81-106. 10.7183/0002-7316.76.1.81
P. Drooker 2011, Using Replication-Related Techniques to Examine the Significance of Fabrics in Mississippian Society, Ethnoarchaeology 3, 163-186. 10.1179/eth.2011.3.2.163

2010

P. Drooker, J. Hart 2010, Soldiers, Cities, and Landscapes: Papers in Honor of Charles L. Fisher, New York State Museum Bulletin The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
Bradley, J., Younge, M.H., Kozlowski, A., 2010. The Sundler Sites: Reconstructing the Late Pleistocene Landscape and its People in the Capital Region of New York, in: Drooker, P., Hart, J. (Eds.), Soldiers, Cities, and Landscapes: Papers in Honor of Charles L. Fisher. The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York, pp. 213-224.
Orser, C., 2010. Foreword, in: Drooker, P., Hart, J. (Eds.), Soldiers, Cities, and Landscapes: Papers in Honor of Charles L. Fisher. The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York, pp. xiii-xiv.
Pickands, M., 2010. A Local Industry Reflects a Local Community—The Watts Blacksmith Shop, in: Drooker, P., Hart, J. (Eds.), Soldiers, Cities, and Landscapes: Papers in Honor of Charles L. Fisher. The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York, pp. 281-293.