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

2015

C. Rieth 2015, The Vroman I Site (NYSM \# 10146 and 10148) and The Vroman II Site (NYSM \# 10147) for PIN 9125.05.121 Routes 30/30A Intersection and Vroman Corners Intersection Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York, Cultural Resource Survey Program Series The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2015, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1089.90.101, Archaeological Survey Report for Route 30, Town of Lexington, Greene County, New York. . Presented at the ,New York State Museum, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2015, Review of ’Social Archaeologist of Trade and Exchange: Exploring Relationships Among People, Places, and Things’, edited by Alexander Bauer and Anna Agbe-Davies, Anthropology Review Database , .
C. Rieth 2015, The Vroman I Site (NYSM \# 10146 and 10148) and The Vroman II Site (NYSM \# 10147) for PIN 9125.05.121 Routes 30/30A Intersection and Vroman Corners Intersection Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York, Cultural Resource Survey Program Series The University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2015, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1013.11, Route 42 over the Schoharie Creek, Town of Lexington, Greene County, New York. . Presented at the ,New York State Museum, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2015, Cultural Resources Site Examination of the Schoharie Creek III Site, Route 7/30A, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
A. Kozlowski, C. Rieth, J. Van Nest, D. Mazeau, J. Dubuque, A. Lynch, S. Moragne 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. . Presented at the ,New York State Museum, Albany, New York
C. Rieth, J. Dubuque 2015, Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for DEC Tonawanda WMA Koepsel Road, Town of Newstead, Erie County and Foote Road, Town of Royalton, Niagara County, New York. . Presented at the ,New York State Museum, Albany, New York

2014

C. Rieth, T. Thomas, M. Pickands, V. Schmitt 2014, Documentation of Historic Signage along Veterans Memorial Highway, Whiteface Mountain, Town of Wilmington, Essex County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
C. Rieth 2014, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 1013.11, Town of Lexington, Schoharie County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York