Dr. Christina Rieth

State Archaeologist and Co-Director, Cultural Resource Survey Program
christina.rieth@nysed.gov
518-402-5975

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

2023

C. Rieth, S.A. Herr, S. van der Linde 2023, Archaeology as Service: Introduction, Advances in Archaeological Practice 11, . 10.1017/aap.2023.19

2022

C. Rieth, S. van der Linde, S. Herr 2022, Editorial, Advances in Archaeological Practice 10, 1-2. 10.1017/aap.2022.5

2020

C. Rieth, K. Carr, C. Bergman, B. Means, R. Moeller 2020, The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
C. Rieth, J. Birch, S. van der Linde, S. Herr, L. Gamble, D. Martin, J. Hendon, C. Santoro, C. Rodning, M. Hegmon 2020, Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications, American Antiquity 85, 624-626. 10.1017/aaq.2020.89
C. Rieth 2020, Social Complexity and Settlement in Eastern New York, Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 36, 1-15.

2019

C. Rieth, S. Rafferty 2019, An Analysis of the Late Woodland Ceramic Assemblage at the Pethick Site, New York, Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 35, 27-40.

2017

C. Rieth 2017, Review of "Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Survey and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program" edited by Kimball Banks and Jon A. Czaplicki, Anthropology Review Database , .

2016

C. Rieth, William Doelle, Pat Barker, David Cushman, Michael Heilen, Cynthia Herhahn 2016, Incorporating Archaeological Resources in Landscape-Level Planning and Management, Advances in Archaeological Practice 4, 118-131. 10.7183/2326-3768.4.2.118
C. Rieth 2016, Late Prehistoric Household Archaeology in Eastern New York, P@lethnology 8, 49-61.
C. Rieth 2016, The Vroman I Site (NYSM\# 10146 and 10148): A Transitional/Early Woodland Camp in the Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York, The Bulletin: Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association 130, 27-43.