Skip to main content

David Staley

CRSP Principal Investigator
518-473-5026

M.A., Anthropology, 1990, Washington State University
B.A., Anthropology, 1981, University of New Mexico

Lithic analysis, historic archaeology, 19th-century farmsteads, transportation and industry, mortuary analysis, Contact-period material culture, Upland Aleutian Sites, and St. Lawrence Island subsistence diggers.

Current CRSP Projects:

  • Data Recovery of 1026-1028 Lincoln Ave. Utica, New York.
  • Site Examination of John Olive’s Blacksmith Shop Site, Springfield Center, New York.
  • Archaeological Monitoring of the Utica North-South Arterial Reconstruction Project, Utica, New York.

Current Research Projects:

  • Lithic resource exploitation at the Goodyear Site, Springfield, New York.
  • Industrial Archaeology at the Adirondack Iron and Steel Company’s Upper Works, Essex County, New York.
  • History and Archaeology of the Thayer Homestead, Springfield, New York.
  • Roadside Garbology: Archaeological Lessons from Adopt-A-Highway Clean-Up Data.

Publications

2025

G. Geyer, E. Landing 2025, Lower Cambrian (Stage 3–4) of NW Africa: West Gondwanan bio- and lithostratigraphy of Stage 4 in the Moroccan Atlas ranges, with evaluation of global Stage 4, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften , . 10.1127/zdgg/2025/0478
E. Landing, S. Westrop 2025, Revision of Middle Cambrian trilobites and agnostids from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, reveals a Guzhangian faunal interval in the Avalonian cover sequence, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences , . 10.1139/cjes-2025-0020
G. Geyer, E. Landing, S.R. Westrop, M.D. Schmitz 2025, U-Pb volcanic zircon dates from New Brunswick constrain the Middle Cambrian Drumian Stage and trans-Avalonian green–black boundary, Geological Magazine 162, e25. 10.1017/S0016756825100137
E. Landing 2025, Comment: Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland by J.J. Álvaro and A. Mills, Sedimentology (71, 1245–1269), Sedimentology , . 10.1111/sed.13253
E. Landing, T.P. Farrell, H.R. Cothren, F.A. Sundberg, M.D. Schmitz, C.M. Dehler, K.E. Karlstrom, L.J. Crossey, J.W. Hagadorn 2025, Revising the late Cambrian time scale and the duration of the SPICE event using a novel Bayesian age modeling approach, Geological Society of America Bulletin , . 10.1130/B37919.1
E. Landing, S. Westrop 2025, Middle Cambrian (Drumian) trilobites and agnostid arthropods from the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian New Brunswick: bracketing the green–black facies boundary, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 62, 962-1001. 10.1139/cjes-2024-0154
E. Landing 2025, The Bakken Model: Deposition of Organic-Rich Mudstones and Petroleum Source Rocks as Shallow-Marine Facies Through the Phanerozoic , Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13, 895. 10.3390/jmse13050895
E. Landing, J.M. Malinky, G. Geyer, N. Oliver 2025, Hyoliths from the Manuels River Formation, middle Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian, upper Wuliuan–Drumian) of Avalonian southeastern Newfoundland, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften , . 10.1127/zdgg/2025/0470
E. Landing, J.D. Adrian, J. Westrop, T.S. Karim, S.R. Losso, R.Y. Ng, A.B. Bradley, F. Perez-Peris 2025, Trilobite biostratigraphy of the upper Skullrockian Stage (Lower Ordovician; lower Tremadocian) on the northern Laurentian margin, western United States, Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 57, 397–432.

2024

E. Landing, D. Keppie, J. Keppie 2024, A tectonic solution for the Early Cambrian palaeogeographic enigma, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 542, 167-177. 10.1144/SP542-2022-355