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

2006

C. Rieth, J. Ross, S. Higgins, V. Schmitt 2006, Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 3501.42.121, Bartell Road over I-81, Town of Cicero, Onondaga County, New York. . Presented at the ,, Albany, New York
Rieth, C., 2006. Archaeology, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 236-244.
Rieth, C., 2006. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 875-876.
Rieth, C., 2006. Leslie A. White, in: Birx, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 2310-2311.
Rieth, C., 2006. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 1981.
Rieth, C., 2006. Salvage Archaeology, in: Birx, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 259-261.
Rieth, C., 2006. Upland Settlement and Subsistence in Eastern New York, in: Nash, C., Barber, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Uplands Archaeology in the East IX Conference. Archaeological Society of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, pp. 2-15.

2005

Rieth, C., 2005. John Big Tree, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, pp. 177.
Rieth, C., 2005. Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, pp. 832.
Rieth, C., 2005. Upland Settlement and Subsistence in New York, in: Nash, C., Barber, M. (Eds.), Uplands Archaeology in the East: Symposia VIII and IX. Archaeological Society of Virginia, Special Publication 38-7, Richmond, Virginia, pp. 3-12.