The Corditaipe Site Revisited: An Ice Age Encampment of First Peoples in Eastern New York

Discovered in 1975, the Corditaipe archaeological site is an Ice Age encampment located in the upper Mohawk Valley, the homelands of the Oneida Nation. Since 2019, NYSM archaeologists and volunteers have been re-investigating the Corditaipe site to better understand its age and the nature of the Indigenous encampments. Here, NYSM Curator of Archaeology Dr. Jonathan Lothrop discusses recent fieldwork and initial insights on life in the Ice Age of eastern New York.