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Dr. Julieann Van Nest

Geoarchaeologist

julieann.vannest@nysed.gov

518-474-5814

GISc, Certificate in Geographical Information Systems, 2009, University of North Dakota
Ph.D., Geology (Quaternary Studies), 1997, University of Iowa
M.S., Geology (Quaternary Studies), 1987, University of Iowa
B.S., Geology, 1983, University of North Dakota
B.A., Anthropology, 1983, University of North Dakota

My research centers around some of the interdisciplinary aspects of Quaternary Geology and Archaeology, with special emphases on landscape archaeology and comparative studies of the earthen architecture of North American mounds and enclosures. My guiding philosophy is that every place tells an interesting story, and every archaeological site study deserves a geoarchaeological perspective to generate important primary archaeological data about the fundamental nature of sites, and to minimize the loss of contextual information from sites being destroyed.

My Research Projects

Publications

2019

Higgins, S., Herzing, L., Lynch, A., Merwin, D.E., Morse, S., Van Nest, J., 2019. Addendum Phase 1B Survey and Phase 2 Site Examination of the Yale Lock Factory Site, PIN 2805.95.121, New York State Route 28 Culvert Extension and Repair, Village of Newport, Herkimer County, New York, Cultural Resource Survey Program. New York State Museum, Albany, New York.

2015

Van Nest, J., 2015. Geoarchaeological Assessment for a Proposed Culvert Replacement near Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York (PIN 9806.80.101), NYS Route 206 Culvert # C920157. New York State Museum, Albany, New York.

Rieth, C.B., Mazeau, D.E., Moragne, S., Lynch, A., Dubuque, J., Van Nest, J., Kozlowski, A.L., 2015. Cultural Resources Survey Report of PIN 1721.51.121, Tier IA Testing at the Engel Farm Precontact Site (NYSM # 12583), Exit 3 and 4 Reconstruction Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York. New York State Museum, Albany, New York.

Brown, H., Lynch, A., Van Nest, J., 2015. Cultural Resources Survey of the DEC-Nutten Hook Preserve, Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, New York. New York State Museum, Albany, New York.

2014

Van Nest, J., 2014. Holocene Mississippi River Floods and Geoarchaeological Site Formation Processes in the Sny Bottom, Western Illinois, USA. Quaternary International 342, 114-138. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.031

Van Nest, J., 2014. Geoarchaeological Reconnaissance of a Proposed Pavilion and other Improvements at the Nutten Hook Preserve, Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, New York.. Albany, New York.

2008

Van Nest, J., 2008. Perch Lake's Enigmatic Mounds. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 14-15.

2007

Kelly, J.E., Brown, J.A., Hamlin, J.M., Kelly, L.S., Kozuch, L., Parker, K., Van Nest, J., 2007. Mound 34: The Context for the Early Evidence of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex at Cahokia, in: King, A. (Ed.), Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Iconography, And Meaning. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, pp. 57-87.

2006

Van Nest, J., 2006. Rediscovering This Earth: Some Ethnogeological Aspects of the Illinois Valley Hopewell Mounds, in: Charles, D.K., Buikstra, J.E. (Eds.), Recreating Hopewell. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 402-426.

2004

Charles, D.K., Van Nest, J., Buikstra, J.E., 2004. From the Earth: Minerals and Meaning in the Hopewellian World, in: Boivin, N., Owoc, M.A. (Eds.), Soils, Stones And Symbols: Archaeological And Anthropological Perspectives On The Mineral World. University College London Press, London, pp. 43-70.