Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3023.07.101, Route 69 and Munger Hill Road, Town of Mexico, Oswego County, New York - J. Ross; V. A. Schmitt (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3314.34.121, Route 34 over the Erie Barge Canal, Town of Brutus and Cato, Cayuga County, New York - J. Ross; M.S. LoRusso (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Steoneware Jar by Paul Cushman - J. L. Scherer (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2008)
Keywords: history

Tickling the Ivories: The NYSM Piano Collection Symbolizes a Bygone Era - J. L. Scherer (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2008)
Keywords: history

Architectural Survey Report of PIN 7016.60.121, North State Street and Shady Avenue, Village of Lowville, Lewis County, New York - V. A. Schmitt (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2004.08.121, Route 51, Town of German Flatts, Herkimer County, New York - V. A. Schmitt (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

New and Significant Chromosome Numbers in Spiranthes - C. J. Sheviak (The Native Orchid Conference Journal, 2008)
Keywords: biology

A Tradition of Published Research - J. B. Skiba (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2008)
Keywords: history

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1043.52.101, Route 9 Spier Falls Road, Town of Moreau, Saratoga County, New York - Sobik, C.; M.S. LoRusso; C. B. Rieth (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2018.98.121, Route 28, Town of Newport, Herkimer County, New York - Sobik, C.; M.S. LoRusso; C. B. Rieth (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for PIN A031.01.701, Upper Castleton Landings Site, Town of Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for Upper Castleton Landing Site, Village of Castleton on Hudson, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey and Site Examination Report of 1740 to 1759 Fortified French Windmill, British Hut, Late Woodland and French Hut Site. - J. Sopko; A. Lynch; Sobik, S.; T. Thomas; L. J. Xinakes (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN A031.03.701, Wetland Mitigation Report, Town of East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN A031.03.701, Empire Rail Corridor, Alternate C, Town of East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Addendum to PIN 2018.60.121 Reconstruction of NY 28, Town of Forestport, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2004.08.121, Route 51, First Street to Village Boundary, Village of Illion, Town of German Flatts, Herkimer County, New York. - D. Staley; J. Ross; Moragne, S.; A. Lynch (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2018.60.121, NY 28, Town of Forestport, Oneida County, New York. - D. Staley (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 2057.46.121, Route 13 from Chapel to Elm Streets, Village of Canastota, Madison County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Baptist Site and Morgan Site, Route 51, Town of German Flatts, Herkimer County, New York - D. Staley; J. Ross (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Letter Report for PIN 2LA 1209, Route 12B, Town of Hamilton, Madison County, New York - D. Staley (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Life and Times of an Early Ford Dealer: Christian F. Weber of Albany, New York - G. Stein (The Model T Reconsidered: Proceedings from the World of the Model T Conference, 2008)
Keywords: history

Suffrage Wagon: Rolling for Women's Right to Vote - G. Stein (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2008)
Keywords: history

Domesticated Landscapes - Terrell, J. E.; J. P. Hart (Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, 2008)
Keywords: anthropology

Perch Lake's Enigmatic Mounds - Van Nest, J. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2008)
Keywords: anthropology

Earth's Oldest Liverworts--Metzgeriothallus sharonae sp. nov. from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) of Eastern New York - L. VanAller Hernick; E. Landing; Bartowski, K. E. (Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology, 2008)
Liverworts are generally regarded as rare elements in Palaeozoic floral assemblages. However, a focus on dark gray to black shales and siltstones in the Middle–Late Devonian Catskill Delta of eastern New York shows that liverworts are locally quite common as well-preserved, apparently parautochthonous specimens in thin, lenticular, dark gray–black shale and siltstone lenses. These lenses are either dysoxic–anoxic lacustrine or estuarine facies deposited under oxygen-stratified water masses or rapidly deposited flood plain deposits that were not oxidized after deposition. Carbonized remains of the upper Middle Devonian (Givetian) liverwort Metzgeriothallus sharonae sp. nov. are locally common in these lenses. Well-preserved thalli (gametophytes) are only evident by projecting polarized light on the shale and siltstone surfaces. An associated sporophyte capsule is the first evidence of a reproductive structure in a Devonian liverwort. Metzgeriothallus sharonae sp. nov. is the oldest known liverwort. The age of the new species helps recalibrate chloroplast DNA studies that have led to proposals of the timing of liverwort diversification by showing that the evolutionary separations of the Jungermanniopsida and Marchantiopsida and of the Metzgeriidae and Jungermanniidae [previously thought to be Late Devonian and Late Carboniferous, respectively] were no younger than late Middle Devonian.
Keywords: liverworts; taphonomy; preservation; Devonian; New York; Metzgeriothallus sharonae n. sp

Volcanic Tephra Bed Formation and Condensation Processes: A Review and Examination from Devonian Stratigraphic Sequences - C. A. Ver Straeten (Journal of Geology, 2008)
Keywords: geology

Larva of Abablemma (Noctuidae) with Notes on Algivory and Lichenivory in Macrolepidoptera - Wagner, D. L.; T. L. McCabe (Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2008)
Keywords: biology

Defining Public History: Is It Possible? Is It Necessary? - Weible, R. (Perspectives on History, 2008)
Keywords: history

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Screening Report for PIN 1248.14.121, Route 149, Martindale Road to Washington County Line, Town of Queensbury, Warren County, New York - Williams, J. (New York State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, 2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Screening Report for PIN 1248.14.121, Route 149, Martindale Road to Washington County Line, Town of Queensbury, Warren County, New York - Williams, J. (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2044.59.121, Route 30 and 29, Town of Mayfield, Fulton County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2044.59.121, Route 30 and 29, Town of Mayfield, Fulton County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (New York State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, 2008)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Before Albany An Archaeology of Native-Dutch Relations in the Capital Region 1600-1664 - J. A. Bradley (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology history

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Howes-Arkles Site, Town of Thompson, Sullivan County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7019.15.121, Route 190, Town of Altona, Clinton County, New York - J. S. Cardinal; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for The Howes-Arkles Site, PIN 9067.17.121, Route 17 over the Neversink River, Town of Thompson, Sullivan County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Renaissance in New York Mineralogy - S. C. Chamberlain (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Welcome to the New York State issue of Rocks & Minerals. New York has a long and significant history in mineralogy and paleontology and today is undergoing something of a renaissance in both collecting and mineralogical research, as described below.
Keywords: Mineralogy; New York

The Rochester Mineralogical Symposium: A World-Class Event - S. C. Chamberlain (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Every April a major international event for mineral collectors occurs in New York State—the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium (RMS). The symposium is an activity of the Rochester Academy of Science, one of the oldest such organizations in the United States (http://www.rasny.org). RMS’s mission is to provide an annual, multifaceted event for the exchange of information about specimen mineralogy in all its various aspects. Participants typically include a mix of curators, academics, students, and collectors at all levels of expertise.
Keywords: Mineralogy; New York; Rochester

Zr and Hf Diffusion in Rutile - Cherniak, D. J.; Manchester, J.; Watson, E. B. (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2007)
Chemical diffusion of Zr and Hf under anhydrous conditions has been measured in synthetic and natural rutile. The sources of diffusant used were hafnon or zircon powders or a hafnon–rutile mixture. Experiments were run in crimped Pt capsules in air, or in sealed silica glass capsules with solid buffers (to buffer at NNO or QFM). Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS) was used to measure Zr and Hf diffusion profiles. From these measurements, the following Arrhenius relations were obtained: For Zr diffusion parallel to c, over the temperature range 750–1100 °C DZr¦c = 9.8 × 10− 15 exp(− 170 ± 30 kJ mol− 1/RT) m2 s− 1 For Hf diffusion parallel to c, over the temperature range 800–1000 °C DHf¦c = 9.1 × 10− 15 exp(− 169 ± 36 kJ mol− 1/RT) m2 s− 1 For Hf diffusion normal to c, over the temperature range 750–1050 °C DHf⊥c = 2.5 × 10− 12 exp(− 227 ± 62 kJ mol− 1/RT) m2 s− 1   Diffusivities for experiments buffered at QFM and NNO are similar to those run in air. Diffusivities in synthetic and natural rutile are likewise similar, indicating that these findings can be applied directly in determining Zr diffusivities in rutile in natural systems. These data indicate that rutile should be moderately retentive of Zr chemical signatures, with Zr diffusivities within an order of magnitude of those for Pb in rutile over most geologic conditions. When applied in evaluation of the relative robustness of the recently developed Zr-in-rutile geothermometer [T. Zack, R. Moraes, A. Kronz, Temperature dependence of Zr in rutile: empirical calibration of a rutile thermometer, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 148 (2004) 471–488., E.B. Watson, D.A. Wark, J.B. Thomas, Crystallization thermometers for zircon and rutile, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 151 (2006) 413–433.], these findings suggest that Zr concentrations in rutile will be somewhat more likely to be affected by later thermal disturbance than the geothermometer based on Zr concentrations in titanite [L. Hayden, E.B.Watson, D.A. Wark, A thermobarometer for sphene, Abstract, 16th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference (2006).], and much less resistant to diffusional alteration subsequent to crystallization than the Ti-in-zircon geothermometer [E.B. Watson, D.A. Wark, J.B. Thomas, Crystallization thermometers for zircon and rutile, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 151 (2006) 413–433., E.B.Watson, T.M.Harrison, Zircon thermometer reveals minimum melting conditions on earliest Earth, Science 308 (2005) 841–844.].
Keywords: diffusion; geothermometry; hafnium; Rutherford Backscattering spectrometry; rutile; zirconium

A New Platanthera (Orchidaceae) from Yosemite National Park, California - Colwell, A.E.L.; C. J. Sheviak; Moore, P.E. (Madrono, 2007)
A new species, Platanthera yosemitensis Colwell, Sheviak and P. Moore, from Mariposa County, California, is described and illustrated. Endemic to wet montane meadows between the main stem and the South Fork of the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, it is distinct from Platanthera stricta Lindl., P. sparsiflora (S. Wats.) Schlecter, and P. purpurascens (Rydb.) Sheviak & W. F. Jennings based on vegetative habit, floral morphology, color, and fragrance and pollination mechanics.
Keywords: California; Orchidaceae; Platanthera; Sierra Nevada; Yosemite National Park

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Raymond Dale and James Holloway Site, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York - B. R. Dale (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for the Roger's Island and #3 Bridge Sites, Town of Fort Edward, Washington County, New York - B. R. Dale (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Structurally Controlled Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoir Facies: An Overview: Reply - Davies, G. R.; L. B. Smith Jr. (AAPG Bulletin, 2007)
Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomite (HTD) reservoir facies and associated productive leached limestones are major hydrocarbon producers in North America and are receiving increased exploration attention globally. They include multiple trends in the Ordovician (locally, Silurian and Devonian) of the Michigan, Appalachian, and other basins of eastern Canada and the United States, and in the Devonian and Mississippian of the Western Canada sedimentary basin. They also occur in Jurassic hosts along rifted Atlantic margins, in the Jurassic–Cretaceous of the Arabian Gulf region and elsewhere. Hydrothermal dolomitization is defined as dolomitization occurring under burial conditions, commonly at shallow depths, by fluids (typically very saline) with temperature and pressure (T and P) higher than the ambient T and P of the host formation. The latter commonly is limestone. Proof of a hydrothermal origin for HTD reservoir facies requires integration of burial-thermal history plots, fluid-inclusion temperature data, and constraints on timing of emplacement. Hydrothermal dolomite reservoir facies are part of a spectrum of hydrothermal mineral deposits that include sedimentary-exhalative lead-zinc ore bodies and HTD-hosted Mississippi Valley–type sulfide deposits. All three hydrothermal deposits show a strong structural control by extensional and/or strike-slip (wrench) faults, with fluid flow typically focused at transtensional and dilational structural sites and in the hanging wall. Transtensional sags above negative flower structures on wrench faults are favored drilling sites for HTD reservoir facies. Saddle dolomite in both replacive and void-filling modes is characteristic of HTD facies. For many reservoirs, matrix-replacive dolomite and saddle dolomite appear to have formed near-contemporaneously and from the same fluid and temperature conditions. The original host facies exerts a major influence on the lateral extent of dolomitization, resultant textures, pore type, and pore volume. Breccias, zebra fabrics, shear microfractures, and other rock characteristics record short-term shear stress and pore-fluid-pressure transients, particularly proximal to active faults. High-temperature hydrothermal pulses may alter kerogen in host limestones, a process designated “forced maturation.” Basement highs, underlying sandstone (and/or carbonate?) aquifers (probably overpressured), and overlying and internal shale seals and aquitards also may constrain or influence HTD emplacement. Although many questions and uncertainties remain, particularly in terms of Mg and brine source and mass balance, recognition and active exploration of the HTD play continues to expand. Increasing use of three-dimensional seismic imagery and seismic anomaly mapping, combined with horizontal drilling oblique to linear trends defined by structural sags, helps to reduce risk.
Keywords: hydrothermal dolomite; reservoir facies; structural control

Excavations at Fort Edward - N. L. Davis (Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Newsletter, 2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Excavations at Fort Edward - N. L. Davis (Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter, 2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1130.52.101, Route 22, Town of Fort Ann and Granville, Washington County, New York. - R. Dean; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Persistent Depositional Sequences and Bioevents in the Eifelian (Early Middle Devonian) of Eastern Laurentia: North American Evidence of the Kacak Events? - DeSantis, M.K.; Brett, R.T.; C. A. Ver Straeten (Devonian Events and Correlations, 2007)
The late Eifelian–earliest Givetian interval (Middle Devonian) represents a time of significant faunal turnover in the eastern Laurentia and globally. A synthesis of biostratigraphic, K-bentonite and sequence stratigraphic data indicates that physical and biotic events in the Appalachian foreland basin sections in New York are coeval with the predominantly carbonate platform sections of southern Ontario and Ohio. The upper Eifelian (australis to ensensis conodont zones) Marcellus Subgroup in New York comprises two large-scale (3rd-order) composite depositional sequences dominated by black shale, which are here assigned to the Union Springs and Oatka Creek Formations. The succession includes portions of three distinctive benthic faunas or ecological–evolutionary sub-units (EESUs): ‘Onondaga’, ‘Stony Hollow’ and ‘Hamilton’. In the northern Appalachian Basin in New York, the boundaries of these bioevents show evidence of abrupt, widespread extinctions, immigration and ecological restructuring. In the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario and from central to northern Ohio, the same sequence stratigraphic pattern and bioevents are recognized in coeval, carbonate-dominated facies. The correlations underscore a relatively simple pattern of two major sequences and four subsequences that can be recognized throughout much of eastern Laurentia. Moreover, the biotic changes appear to be synchronous across the foreland basin and adjacent cratonic platform. However, the degree of change differs substantially, being less pronounced in carbonatedominated mid-continent sections. Finally, we make the case that the two major faunal changes align with regional sequence stratigraphic patterns as well as with the global Kačák bioevents.
Keywords: earliest Givetian; eastern Laurentia; faunal turnover; late Eifelian; Middle Devonian

Notes on Two Noded Pipes from West Virginia - P. B. Drooker (West Virginia Archeologist [for 2002], 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Strange Creatures from the Archaeology Collection - P. B. Drooker; G. R. Hamell (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Determining Landscape Use of Holocene Mammals Using Strontium Isotopes - R. S. Feranec; Hadly, E.A.; Paytan, A. (Oecologia, 2007)
The use of the landscape by animals is predicted to be a function of their body size. However, empirical data relating these two variables from an array of body sizes within a single mammalian community are scarce. We tested this prediction by assessing landscape use of mammals by analyzing strontium (Sr) isotope signatures found in mammalian hard tissues representing a 3,000-year record. We examined: (1) the Sr-determined landscape area of small (∼100 g), medium (∼1,500 g) and large (∼100,000 g) mammals, and; (2) whether the area used by these mammals varied during periods of environmental change. Strontium isotope values were obtained from 46 specimens from the Holocene paleontological deposits of Lamar Cave and Waterfall Locality in Wyoming, USA, as well as from 13 modern ungulate specimens from the same area. Our data indicate that medium- and large-sized species use larger percentages of the landscape than do species of small body size. The isotope values for specimens from each of the paleontological sites are similar across all stratigraphic levels, suggesting no change in home range over the last 3,000 years, even though climate is known to have fluctuated at these sites over this time period. Further, our study verifies that the fossil localities represent the local community. Where bedrock geology is appropriate, the use of strontium isotope analyses provides a valuable tool for discerning landscape use by vertebrate communities, an important though generally difficult aspect of an ancient species niche to identify.
Keywords: landscape use; mammals; strontium (Sr) isotope

Ecological Generalization During Adaptive Radiation: Evidence from Neogene Mammals - R. S. Feranec (Evolutionary Ecology Research, 2007)
Question: How does the evolution of a key adaptation affect niche breadth during an adaptive radiation? Organisms: Cenozoic horse and camel species, as well as Pleistocene ungulates. Predictions: Niche breadth theoretically could increase, decrease or remain the same as attainment of a key adaptation facilitates a niche shift. Simpson predicted a decrease in niche breadth (ecological specialization) when key adaptations lead to adaptive radiations. I test Simpson’s prediction by examining ecological response to attainment of high-crowned teeth (hypsodonty). The evolution of hyposdonty represents a key adaptation involved in many ungulate adaptive radiations. Methods: To test whether hypsodont ungulates have potentially wider or narrower niche breadth in respect to their non-hypsodont, pre-adaptive radiation ancestors, I analysed δ13C values in the tooth enamel of Pleistocene ungulates as a proxy for dietary breadth. For Cenozoic horses and camels, I measured the total number of biogeographic provinces and the total number of fossil localities in which individual taxa were found to assess breadth of habitat use. I considered these two parameters (dietary breadth and habitat breadth) as two major niche axes from which I qualitatively estimated niche breadth. I also compared taxon survival between low-crowned and high-crowned taxa, reasoning that if high-crowned taxa had less broad niches, their probability of extinction should be higher and their temporal duration shorter. Results: The δ13C values of herbivores from the Pleistocene of Florida revealed that high-crowned taxa fed on a diet of both C3 and C4 forage, while low-crowned taxa confined their feeding to C3 plants. In the Cenozoic horse and camel clades, there was no statistically significant difference between high-crowned and low-crowned taxa in the number of biogeographic provinces or localities occupied. Nor were there significant differences between high-crowned and low-crowned taxa in the duration of time a particular species survived. Conclusions: Simpson’s prediction that key adaptations that lead to adaptive radiation also result in decreased niche breadth is not supported in the case of the evolution of hypsodonty by the ungulates. Instead, the attainment of hypsodonty in these taxa broadened niche space along one of the studied axes (dietary variety) and had no discernible effect on the other (habitat occupancy).
Keywords: adaptive radiation; Diet; habitat; hypsodonty; key adaptation; Mammal; niche breadth; Ungulata

Radiocarbon Dates from the Pleistocene Fossil Deposits of Samwell Cave, Shasta County, California, USA - R. S. Feranec; Hadly, E.A.; Blois, J.L.; Barnosky, A.D.; Paytan, A. (Radiocarbon, 2007)
Dates obtained from the collagen of 5 mammals from the fossil deposits of Samwel Cave, Shasta County, California, USA, show emplacement during the last glacial maximum. These dates support the assignment of the fauna to the late Pleistocene. The Samwel Cave deposits currently do not appear to be stratified.
Keywords: California; late Pleistocene; mammals

Stable Carbon Isotope Values Reveal Evidence of Resource Partitioning Among Ungulates from Modern C3-dominated Ecosystems in North America - R. S. Feranec (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2007)
Resource use and niche partitioning has rarely been shown in ancient C3-dominated environments through analysis of stable isotope values, even though before 7 million years ago worldwide environments were predominantly composed of C3 plant taxa. This study explores whether the analysis of stable carbon isotopes from ungulate tissues can accurately identify resource use and niche partitioning in a modern C3-dominated ecosystem in North America, in order to lay the groundwork for application to more ancient ecosystems. δ13C values were obtained from the scat, collagen, and tooth enamel from populations of Antilocapra americana, Bison bison, Cervus elaphus, Odocoileus hemionus, and Ovis canadensis in Yellowstone National Park, and used to trace isotopic uptake and incorporation from the diet into herbivore hard tissues. Significant differences were observed among taxa in δ13C values from all three of the sample materials. Scrutinizing the carbon isotope values further showed that elk and mule deer had the widest range in isotopic values, implying the widest range of resource use. Similarities among taxa in the δ13C of scat concur with other studies that attribute the similarities to winter habitat use. Because (1) significant differences were observed in the δ13C values of scat, collagen and ultimately tooth enamel and (2) the isotopic inputs of carbon are relatively well understood, and (3) carbon isotope values can be obtained from non-altered fossil material, this methodology appears practicable for objectively examining ecological relationships, such as resource use and niche partitioning, among taxa in ancient C3-dominated ecosystems of North America and elsewhere, and suggests the technique will be valuable in investigating resource use and niche partitioning among taxa prior to the C4 global carbon shift.
Keywords: C3-ecosystems; Carbon-13; Diet; Modern; Ruminantia; Yellowstone National Park

Beneath the City: An Archaeological Perspective of Albany - C. L. Fisher (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Privies and Parasites: The Archaeology of Health Conditions in Albany, New York - C. L. Fisher; Reinhard, K.J.; Kirk, M.; DiVirgilio, J. (Historical Archaeology, 2007)
Large numbers of parasites were identified in archaeological samples collected from privies and other features in excavations in Albany, New York. This information provides the largest database available for the study of parasite infections in historical period American cities. The greatest numbers of parasites were in contexts related to the expansion of the city in the late-18th century. Parasites remained, but their quantities decreased in the 19th century during another period of rapid population growth. The city was able to control parasite infection during this period through several means, including new techniques of privy construction, new water supply systems, and medical treatments. Use of medical treatments against parasites varied among residents of the city and was evident in the archaeological record.
Keywords: parasite infections; privies; U.S. cities

Variability in assays used for detection of lentiviral infection in bobcats (Lynx rufus), pumas (Puma concolor), and ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) - Franklin, S.P.; Troyer, J.L.; TerWee, J.A.; Lyern, L.M.; R. W. Kays; Riley, S.P.D.; Boyce, W.M.; Crooks, K.R.; Vanderwoude, S. (Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2007)
Although lentiviruses similar to feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are known to infect numerous felid species, the relative utility of assays used for detecting lentiviral infection has not been compared for many of these hosts. We tested bobcats (Lynx rufus), pumas (Felis concolor), and ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) for exposure to lentivirus using five different assays: puma lentivirus (PLV), African lion lentivirus (LLV), and domestic cat FIV-based immunoblots, a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit, and nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Puma lentivirus immunoblots identified more seropositive individuals than the other antibody-detection assays. The commercial ELISA provided a fair ability to recognize seropositive samples when compared with PLV immunoblot for screening bobcats and ocelots, but not pumas. Polymerase chain reaction identified fewer positive samples than PLV immunoblot for all three species. Immunoblot results were equivalent whether the sample tested was serum, plasma, or whole blood. The results from this study and previous investigations suggest that the PLV immunoblot has the greatest ability to detect reactive samples when screening wild felids of North America and is unlikely to produce false positive results. However, the commercial ELISA kit may provide an adequate alternative for screening of some species and is more easily adapted to field conditions.
Keywords: Bobcat; ELISA; FIV; immunoblot; lentivirus; ocelot; PCR; puma

Addendum Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Town of Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York. - A. Gore (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7088.31.121, Route 58 over Fish Creek, Town of Macomb and Morristown, St. Lawrence County, New York - A. Gore; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7143.31.121, Route 11/East Main Street, Village of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York. - A. Gore; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 7143.31.121, Route 11/E. Main Street, Village of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York. - A. Gore; Moragne, S.; Morgan, R. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Phase I and II Archaeological Survey on NYSM # 11760, Fort La Presentation, City of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York. - A. Gore (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Iroquois and the World's Rim: Speculations on Color, Culture, and Contact - G. R. Hamell (Archaeology of the Iroquois: Selected Readings & Research Sources, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Wampum: Lost Treasure - G. R. Hamell (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

The Death of Owasco - J. P. Hart; H. J. Brumbach (Archaeology of the Iroquois: Selected Readings & Research Sources, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Extending the Phytolith Evidence for Early Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) and Squash (Cucurbita sp.) in Central New York - J. P. Hart; H. J. Brumbach; Lusteck, R. (American Antiquity, 2007)
The timing of the adoptions of maize and squash across eastern North America has been a topic of long-standing interest among archaeologists and paleoethnobotanists. The use of flotation for macrobotanical remains beginning in the 1960s and 1970s coupled with the application of accelerator mass spectrometry dating beginning in the 1980s has led to substantial revisions of knowledge about the history of these crops in the region. A complementary source of evidence for the crops histories in the eastern North America comes from opal phytoliths. Analysis of phytolith assemblages recovered from charred food residues has shown that maize and squash were being used in central New York well before the macrobotanical record indicates. In combination with previously analyzed samples, 16 additional residue assemblages help to clarify the history of maize and squash in central New York. The results indicate that maize and squash were being used in New York by 2270 B.P and 2945 B.P, respectively.
Keywords: AMS dating; cucurbit; Cucurbita pepo; maize; phytolith cooking residues; Zea mays ssp. maize

The Freshwater Reservoir and Radiocarbon Dates on Charred Cooking Residues: Old Apparent Ages or a Single Outlier? Comment on Fischer and Heinemeier (2003) - J. P. Hart; Lovis, W. A. (Radiocarbon, 2007)
Fischer and Heinemeier (2003) present a hypothesis that the freshwater reservoir effect produces old apparent ages for radiocarbon dates run on charred cooking residues in regions where fossil carbon is present in groundwater. The hypothesis is based in part on their analysis of dates on charred cooking residues from 3 inland archaeological sites in Denmark in relation to contextual dates from those sites on other materials. A critical assessment of the dates from these sites suggests that rather than a pattern of old apparent dates, there is a single outlying date—not sufficient evidence on which to build a case for the freshwater reservoir effect.
Keywords: AMS dating; Charred cooking residues; Fresh water reservoir effect

A Multi-Regional Analysis of AMS and Radiometric Dates from Carbonized Food Residues - J. P. Hart; Lovis, W. A. (Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2007)
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) is increasingly employed to date encrusted carbonized food residues on prehistoric pottery sherds, particularly in regions where other datable material is absent or scarce, or where such materials lack good association with objects of chronological interest. The accuracy of AMS dating of residues has recently been questioned in Europe and North America, with skepticism directly or indirectly attributed to the presence of carbonate rich bedrock, a freshwater carbonate reservoir resulting from association with such bedrock, or the cooking of aquatic resources such as mollusk or fish engaged in the uptake of older carbonates. It is argued that carbonized food residues from such contexts or resources are expected to display older apparent ages than dates on other materials. We evaluate this proposition through hypotheses assessing the accuracy and internal consistency of a broad range of data from the northeastern and midwestern United States. We statistically assess dates from 25 site components where either both dates on residue and context dates on other materials have been obtained. Of the 70 dates on residue tested, only 5.7 percent are considered inconsistent with their respective context dates. We also test for consistency 46 dates on residues from 14 site components lacking context dates. Of these, only 4.5 percent are considered internally inconsistent with expectations at the site or regional level. At present, we conclude that AMS dating of residues provides results consistent with those of other datable materials.
Keywords: AMS dating; cooking residues; Fresh water reservoir effect

A New History of Maize-Bean-Squash Agriculture in the Northeast - J. P. Hart (Seeking Our Past: An Introduction to North American Archaeology, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Paleodietary Implications from Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis of Experimental Cooking Residues - J. P. Hart; Lovis, W. A.; Schulenberg, J. K.; Urquhart, G. R. (Journal of Archaeological Science, 2007)
The regional timing of maize introduction in eastern North America is a long-standing topic of archaeological interest. Most recently, Morton and Schwarcz [2004. Paleodietary implications from stable isotopic analysis of residues on prehistoric Ontario ceramics. Journal of Archaeological Science 31, 503–517] investigated the timing of maize introduction in Ontario through isotope analysis of charred cooking residues adhering to the interior of prehistoric ceramic containers. They interpret their results to suggest maize was incorporated into diets after A.D. 600. We assess their approach and conclusions with stable carbon isotope assays on three sets of experimental cooking residues, evaluating the variable combustion of carbon fractions, contributions of fats and carbohydrates, and the contribution of total carbon. We also undertake multiple resource modeling of two part food mixes with green maize and maize flour. Our results suggest that systematic under representation of maize can result depending on residue composition and that some prior knowledge of C3 plant and animal contents is necessary to interpret stable carbon isotope values on cooking residues. We question the independent use of stable carbon isotope analysis of charred cooking residues as a viable technique for extracting paleodietary information.
Keywords: Prehistoric cooking residues; Carbon isotopes; Prehistoric cooking techniques

Phytolith Evidence for Early Maize (Zea mays) in the Northern Finger Lakes Region of New York - J. P. Hart; Thompson, R. G.; H. J. Brumbach (Archaeology of the Iroquois: Selected Readings & Research Sources, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Ellenville, New York, A Classic Locality - M. Hawkins (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
The origins of the mines in the Ellenville area, like so many of the mines of early America, have been lost in the fog of time. Local legends have the mines variously attributed to the Dutch, the Spanish (remnants of Ponce de Leon’s party searching for the fountain of youth), American Indians, or aliens in UFOs seeking to extract energy from the quartz crystals deep within the Shawangunk Mountains. Today, all that remains of the famous Ellenville mines are a few tailings piles, collapsed mine shafts, and broken-down building foundations, but during the glory years of the nineteenth century these mines produced the world-class specimens of quartz and chalcopyrite that reside in museums and private collections around the globe.
Keywords: Ellenville; minerals; New York

History of the Mineral Collections at the New York State Museum - M. Hawkins (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
The New York State Museum has been a vital part of the history of geology, paleontology, and mineralogy in America and the world.
Keywords: mineralogy collection; New York State Museum

Using Patterns in Track Plate Footprints to Identify Individual Fishers - Herzog, C.J.; R. W. Kays; Ray, J.C.; Gompper, M.E.; Zielinski, W.J.; Higgins, R.; Tymeson, M. (Journal of Wildlife Management, 2007)
Abstract: If individuals can be identified from patterns in their footprints, noninvasive survey methods can be used to estimate abundance. Track plates capture fine detail in the footprints of fishers (Martes pennanti), recording rows of dots corresponding to tiny papillae on the animal's metacarpal pad. We show that the pattern of these dots can be used to identify individual fishers, similar to human fingerprints. A probabilistic model of uniqueness based on variation in spacing between 1,400 pairs of dots that we measured in prints of 14 different fisher feet suggests the probability of encountering a similar pattern in the print of a different foot by chance alone is ≤ 0.35n, where n = the number of dot pairs examined. This predicts a 0.00003 probability that a match made using 10 pairs of dots is false. Dot spacing from footprints made by the same foot was remarkably consistent (sN = 0.02 mm, n = 24 dot pairs). Combined, these results suggest dot patterns in fisher footprints were unique to individuals and were consistently reproduced on track plates. Empirical tests of matching accuracy were best with good-quality prints, highlighting the need for experience judging when prints are usable. We applied print matching to fisher detections collected on track plates deployed at 500-m intervals along 10 3.5-km transects in the Adirondack region of New York, USA. Of 62 fisher detections, 85% had ≥ 1 footprint of suitable quality to compare with other high-quality prints. We found that most detections from a transect were from the same individual fisher suggesting nonindependence of detections. Thus, data from traditional track-plate deployments over small time periods cannot be used as a measure of abundance, but new study designs using print matching could obtain robust noninvasive, mark—recapture density estimates.
Keywords: census; fingerprint; fisher; footprint; identification; Martes pennanti; track plate

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2056.81.101, Intersection of NYS Route 8 and Route 30, Village of Speculator, Towns of Arietta and Lake Pleasant, Hamilton County, New York - S. Higgins; C. B. Rieth; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1940.97.101, Baldwin Corners Road over the Champlain Canal, Town of Kingsbury, Washington County, New York - S. Higgins; M.S. LoRusso; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2044.61.121, Log City Road, Town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York - S. Higgins; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8004.02.101, Route 6 and Bear Mountain Parkway, Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York - S. Higgins; C. B. Rieth; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Dreissena polymorpha and Conchophthirus acuminatus: What Can We Learn from Host-Commensal Relationships? - Karatayev, A. Y.; Burlakova, L. E.; D. P. Molloy; Mastitsky, S. E. (Journal of Shellfish Research, 2007)
Host specificity, extremely high prevalence and infection intensity, and easy sampling make the mantle-cavity ciliate Conchophthirus acuminatus a very convenient model to address numerous fundamental questions relating to symbiosis and commensalism. The acquisition of food by the ciliate as a result of Dreissena filtration activity is probably the basis of the symbiosis, with additional benefits to C. acuminatus being shelter, provision of oxygen, and dispersal. The number of C. acuminatus in a Dreissena population depends on the mussel's size-frequency distribution as there is a direct correlation between Dreissena size and infection intensity. Lack of a correlation between host density and commensal infection intensity may indicate that D. polymorpha and C. acuminatus have a different environmental optimum. Zebra mussels of a given length in each population may have their own carrying capacity of C. acuminatus infection intensity. Upon reaching this carrying capacity, a symbiont population may have density-dependent feedback mechanisms, which slow its reproduction rate within a host and/or increase its emigration from the mussel to maintain an optimal density within its host. Massive emergence of ciliates into open water may be synchronized with a mass occurrence of recently settled Dreissena juveniles to maximize the infection.
Keywords: commensal; Conchophthirus acuminatus; dispersal mechanisms; host specificity; Zebra mussel

Timing and Local Perturbations to the Carbon Pool in the Lower Mississippian Madison Limestone, Montana and Wyoming - Katz, D. A.; Buoniconti, M. R.; Montanez, I. P.; Swart, P. K.; Eberli, G. P.; L. B. Smith Jr.; , (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2007)
Keywords: geology

An Appointment with Death - R. W. Kays (BBC Wildlife, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Bats: Gone with the Wind? - R. W. Kays (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: biology

CSI: Adirondacks Biologists Use Crime Scene Techniques to Study Fishers - R. W. Kays (Legacy, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Skulls Tell Their Stories - R. W. Kays (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Glacifluvial Landforms of Erosion - A. E. Kehew; Lord, M. L.; A. L. Kozlowski (Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Tunnel Channels of the Saginaw Lobe, Michigan, USA - A. E. Kehew; A. L. Kozlowski (Applied Quaternary Research in the Central Part of Glaciated Terrain, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Mound 34: The Context for the Early Evidence of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex at Cahokia - Kelly, J.E.; Brown, J.A.; Hamlin, J.M.; Kelly, L.S.; Kozuch, L.; Parker, K.; Van Nest, J. (Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Iconography, and Meaning, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Comparative Phylogeography and Genetic Structure of Vanuatu Birds: Control Region Variation in a Rail, a Dove, and a Passerine - J. J. Kirchman; Franklin, J. D. (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2007)
Keywords: biology paleontology

New Species of Extinct Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Archaeological Sites in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia - J. J. Kirchman; D. W. Steadman (Pacific Science, 2007)
Keywords: biology paleontology

Searching for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker - J. J. Kirchman (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Searching Old Ground with New Methods - A. L. Kozlowski (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology geology

Early Orthoceratoid Cephalopods from the Argentine Precordillera (Lower--Middle Ordovician) - Kroeger, B.; Beresi, M.S.; E. Landing (Journal of Paleontology, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia--Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill Formation, Eastern New York - Kroger, B.; E. Landing (Journal of Paleontology, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

America's First Science Parks - E. Landing (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: geology history paleontology

Cambrian of East Laurentia: Field Workshop in Eastern New York and Western Vermont - E. Landing; Franzi, D. A.; Hagadorn, J. W.; Westrop, S. R.; Kroger, B.; Dawson, J. C. (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Dedication to S. W. Ford - E. Landing (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

East Laurentia 2007-A Pre-meeting Statement - E. Landing (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia: S.W. Ford Memorial Volume - E. Landing (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia-Geologic Setting and Controls on Deposition along the New York Promontory Region - E. Landing (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Fabulous Fossils-300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites: An Introduction - E. Landing (Fabulous Fossils: 300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Global Standard Names for the Lowermost Cambrian Series and Stage - E. Landing; Peng, S.; Babcock, L.E.; G. Geyer; Moczydlowska-Vidal, M. (Episodes, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Reply: 'Distinguishing Eustatic and Epeirogenic Controls on Lower-Middle Cambrian Boundary Successions in West Gondwana (Morocco and Iberia),' by Ed Landing, Gerd Geyer, and Wolfram Heldmaier, Published in Sedimentology (2006) - E. Landing; G. Geyer (Sedimentology, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Terminal Cambrian and Lowest Ordovician Succession of Mexican West Gondwana: Biotas and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Tinu Formation - E. Landing; Westrop, S.R.; Keppe, J.D. (Geological Magazine, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

The Empire State and the "Perculiar Institution" - J. A. Lemak (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: history

The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology - J. A. Lemak (The Public Historian, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology history

Cultural Resource Survey Report Archaeological and Architectural Reconnaissance of PIN 7111.20.121, Route 12E, Town of Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York - M. Lenardi; V. A. Schmitt; Pellerin, J. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Survey Report for PIN 7143.29.121, Route 11, Village of Mannsville, Jefferson County, New York - M. Lenardi; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Beth Wellman (1946-2007) - M.S. LoRusso (The Bulletin: Journal of the New York Archaeological Association, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

An Historic American Engineering Record Level III Documentation of the Clay Hill Road Bridge Spanning Champlain Barge Canal, PIN 1940.87.121, Clay Hill Road/Champlain Barge Canal, Village for Fort Ann, Washington County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Historic Context Study for PIN 7115.07.101, NY Route 3 Corridor, Adirondack Park, Clinton, Franklin, Essex, and St. Lawrence Counties, New York - M.S. LoRusso; Pellerin, J.; Morgan, R. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Historic Setting Analysis for PIN 3287.17.101, NY 370/Onondaga Lake Parkway, Village of Liverpool, Onondaga County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Minerals from New York State: Pegmatites - M. V. Lupulescu (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8754.76.121, Ravensdale Parkway over Sawmill Bridge, Westchester County, New York - A. Lynch; M.S. LoRusso; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Addendum Survey for PIN 0054.05.121, NYS Route 347 from the Northern State Parkway to NYS Route 25A, Village of Hauppauge, Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York. - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Site Examination Report of the OWP South Site, SCO Site, Naima Site, Creek Site, Country Club Site, and KoC Site, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 0054.05.121, Addendum Survey for PIN 0054.05.121, Route 347 from the Northern State Parkway to NYS Route 25A, Village of Hauppauge, Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1941.08.121, East Street Bridge, Fort Edward, Washington County, New York - D. E. Mazeau; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 0054.05.124, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Fabulous Fossils: 300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites - Mikulic, D.G.; E. Landing; Kluessendorf, J. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Discovery of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (Andrusov 1897) in Western Europe - D. P. Molloy; bij de Vaate, A.; Wilke, T.; L. Giamberini (Biological Invasions, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 6010.14 SR 54 over Eggleston Creek, Town of Barrington, Yates County, New York - Moragne, S.; Morgan, R.; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Estate Landscapes and the Cult of the Ruin: A Lesson of Spatial Transformation in Rural Ireland - Orser, C.E. (Estate Landscapes: Design, Improvement and Power in the Post-Medieval Landscape, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

La promisa de una arqueologia del munto moderno en America del Sur, con especial referencia a Argentina - Orser, C. E. (Revista de Arqueologia Historica Argentina y Latinoamericana, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Screening Survey for Bronx Parkway at Kazimiroff Boulevard and Gun Hill Road, Bronx County, New York. - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey for Culvert Project along Route 7, Riceville, Montgomery County, New York. - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey for Route 12, Village of Lowville, Herkimer County, New York - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey for Route 46, Signal Pole Foundation Locations, City of Rome, Herkimer County, New York - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey of Meadowbrook State Parkway/Southern State Parkway, Suffolk County, New York. - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1188.33.121, NY 67 over Hoosick River, Hamlet of Eagle Bridge, Towns of Hoosick and White Creek, Washington County, New York - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1807.55.102, Route 155 Turning Lane at Shaker High School, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York. - M. Pickands (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 1804.42.122, CR 914V, Glenridge Road, Town of Glenville, Schenectady County, New York - M. Pickands; , (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Historical Archaeology at the New York State Museum - M. Pickands; V. A. Schmitt; C. B. Rieth (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Archaeometric analysis of lithic outcrops from Eastern New York - Rafferty, S.; Wood, C.; C. B. Rieth (North American Archaeologist, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Pair of Lice Lost or Parasites Regained: The Evolutionary History of Anthropoid Primate Lice - Reed, D.L.; Light, J.E.; Allen, J.M.; J. J. Kirchman (BMC Biology, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Archaeological Monitoring, Treatment, and Data Recovery Plan for the Erie Canal and Rexford Aqueduct Site (NYSM 10878), Route 146, Town of Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3804.81.321, Emergency Culvert Replacement, Route 48, Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, New York - C. B. Rieth; Moragne, S.; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN AX1710701, NYS Route 28 (C963068), Town of Franklin, Delaware County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Erie Canal and Rexford Aqueduct Site, Town of Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Letter Report for PIN 2056.81.101, Route 8, Town of Arietta, Hamilton County, New York--Addendum - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1116.43.121/BIN 1-00673-0, Route 9N, Village of Hadley, Saratoga County, New York. - C. B. Rieth; M.S. LoRusso; J. F. Pasquini; H. Brown (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 5804.56.121, Route 20, Town of Ripley, Chautauqua County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9067.10.101, Route 17 (Exit 115), Town of Mamakating, Sullivan County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN AX1710701, NYS Route 28, Culvert Flood Damage (C963067), Town of Franklin, Delaware County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN AX1710701, NYS Route 41 (C920110), Town of Afton, Chenango County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Route 28, Town of Nineveh, Chenango County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Public Archaeology and Education in Research and Compliance Projects: An Introduction - C. B. Rieth (Northeast Anthropology, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Report on the Activities of the State Archaeologist's Office 2006-2007. - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Teaching Our Teachers: A Case Study in Public Archaeology - C. B. Rieth; Primeau, K. (Northeast Anthropology, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

A Trace Element Analysis of Ceramics from the Pethick Site, Schoharie County, New York - C. B. Rieth; Rafferty, S.; Saputo, D (North American Archaeologist, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Gazetteer of Major New York State Mineral Localities - Robinson, G.W.; S. C. Chamberlain (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Keywords: geology

The Gems of New York State - Robinson, G.W.; S. C. Chamberlain (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for the 1887 Fire Site, the Menzo-Wheeler Site, Old Stone Shop Site, and the Carlisle Fox Site, Route 12E Three Mile Bay, Town of Lyme, Jefferson County, New York (PIN 7111.19.101). - J. Ross (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Wurlitzer 125 Band Organ Reunited with 1915 Herschell-Spillman in Albany, NY - J. L. Scherer (Carousel News & Trader, 2007)
Keywords: history

First Record of Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum) in the Tidal Hudson River - Schmidt, R. E.; R. S. Morse; B. R. Weatherwax (Northeast Naturalist, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1043.51.101, Intersection of Route 9/67 and Stonebreak Road, Town of Malta, Saratoga County, New York - Sobik, C.; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2018.95.101, Route 28 through Blue Mountain Lake, Town of Indian Lake, Hamilton County, New York - Sobik, C.; S. Higgins; M.S. LoRusso; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Route 9, PIN 1043.59.101, Town of Malta, New York. - Sobik, C. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1806.49.101, Route 8 Culvert Replacement, Town of Horicon, Warren County, New York - J. Sopko; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN A03103701, Empire Rail Corridor, Port of Rensselaer Southern Connector Road with Route 9J, Town of East Greenbush and Staats Island Road, Town of Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of PIN 1932.76.121, Route 9J Multi-Use Path, Village of Castleton-on-Hudson, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Addendum to PIN 2038.29.121, Route 365 from Interstate 90 to Spring Road, Town of Verona, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Circling Back - D. Staley (Shadowlands: Legacies from the Alaska Native Past, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2011.07.101, Route 168 over Otsquago Creek Tributary, Town of Stark, Herkimer County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2011.08.101, Route 168 over Otsquago Creek, Town of Stark, Herkimer County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2037.17.121, Route 31 over the Sconondoa Creek, Town of Vernon, Oneida County, New York. - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2038.30.101, Route 365 over Mud Creek, Town of Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York. - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2125.15.121, Route 30A over the CSX Railroad, Village of Fonda, Montgomery County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2303.47.101, SR 47 over Wells Creek, Town of Western, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2801.27.123, River Street Stream Restoration, Oriskany Flats Wildlife Management Area, Town of Whitestown, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2804.81.121, Retaining Wall and Slope Contract 7, Villages of Fonda and Fort Plain, Montgomery County, New York - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Scaroon Manor Campground and Day Use Area, Town of Chester, Warren County, New York - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

CVS Archaeology Elective Class Excavates at the Thayer Homestead - D. Staley (Newsletter of the Cherry Valley Springfield Central School District, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Further Archaeological Investigations at the Thayer Homestead: Excavations at the Hop House/Barn - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Giant Cladoxylopsid Trees Resolve the Enigma of the Earth's Earliest Forest Stumps at Gilboa - Stein, W.E.; Mannolini, F.; L. VanAller Hernick; E. Landing; Berry, C.M. (Nature, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Iceboats at the State Museum? - G. Stein (Legacy, 2007)
Keywords: history

A Look Back: Collections from the New York State Agricultural Society - G. Stein (Legacy, 2007)
Keywords: history

Eurypterus remipes and E. lacustris (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Silurian of North America - Tetlie, O.E.; V. P. Tollerton Jr.; S. J. Ciurca Jr. (Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Evolution of the Planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) - J. M. Urban; J. R. Cryan (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Where was Ebenezer Emmons' House? - L. VanAller Hernick (Earth Sciences History, 2007)
Keywords: Ebenezr Emmon; geology

Basinwide Stratigraphic Synthesis and Sequence Stratigraphy, Upper Pragian, Emsian and Eifelian Stages (Lower to Middle Devonian), Appalachian Basin - C. A. Ver Straeten (Devonian Events and Correlations, 2007)
The late Eifelian–earliest Givetian interval (Middle Devonian) represents a time of significant faunal turnover in the eastern Laurentia and globally. A synthesis of biostratigraphic, K-bentonite and sequence stratigraphic data indicates that physical and biotic events in the Appalachian foreland basin sections in New York are coeval with the predominantly carbonate platform sections of southern Ontario and Ohio. The upper Eifelian (australis to ensensis conodont zones) Marcellus Subgroup in New York comprises two large-scale (3rd-order) composite depositional sequences dominated by black shale, which are here assigned to the Union Springs and Oatka Creek Formations. The succession includes portions of three distinctive benthic faunas or ecological–evolutionary sub-units (EESUs): ‘Onondaga’, ‘Stony Hollow’ and ‘Hamilton’. In the northern Appalachian Basin in New York, the boundaries of these bioevents show evidence of abrupt, widespread extinctions, immigration and ecological restructuring. In the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario and from central to northern Ohio, the same sequence stratigraphic pattern and bioevents are recognized in coeval, carbonate-dominated facies. The correlations underscore a relatively simple pattern of two major sequences and four subsequences that can be recognized throughout much of eastern Laurentia. Moreover, the biotic changes appear to be synchronous across the foreland basin and adjacent cratonic platform. However, the degree of change differs substantially, being less pronounced in carbonatedominated mid-continent sections. Finally, we make the case that the two major faunal changes align with regional sequence stratigraphic patterns as well as with the global Kačák bioevents.
Keywords: earliest Givetian; eastern Laurentia; faunal turnover; late Eifelian; Middle Devonian

Rock of Deep Ages - C. A. Ver Straeten (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Going Wild: What a Global Small-animal Tracking System Could do for Experimental Biologists - M. Wikelski; R. W. Kays; Kasdin, J.; Thorup, K.; Smith, J.A.; Cochran, W.W.; Swenson, G.W., Jr. (Experimental Biology, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Screening Survey for PIN 1130.60.121, Route 22 over Kinderhook Creek, Town of Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York - Williams, J. (New York State Department of Transporation and the Federal Highway Administration, 2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Screening Survey for PIN 1130.60.121, Route 22 over Kinderhook Creek, Town of Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York - Williams, J. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1306.78.101, Roundabout Construction at Route 146 and 7, Town of Rotterdam, Schenectady County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt (New York State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, 2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1306.78.101, Roundabout Construction at Route 146 and 7, Town of Rotterdam, Schenectady County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) Predation on Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) - Aliaga-Rossel, E.; Moreno, R. S.; R. W. Kays; Giacalone, J. (Biotropica, 2006)
We collected details on the predation of four agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata) by ocelots (Leopardus pardalis). All kills were made outside of the typical agouti activity period (<0500 h). Agoutis were captured from behind and killed with a bite through the back of the skull. The kill sites for two female agoutis were significantly closer to their den sites than expected, while kill sites for two males were not. All carcasses were completely covered by leaves during the day and were fed on during night hours. Predation by ocelots can be a significant cause of mortality for agoutis at Barro Colorado Island (BCI).
Keywords: agouti; Dasyprocta punctata; Leopardus pardalis; Neotropics; ocelot; Panama; predation

Glacial Erratics as Sources of Lithic Raw Material: The McGregor Site on Long Island, New York - Bernstein, D. J.; M. Lenardi (Lithic Technology, 2006)
For virtually all of the prehistoric period the lithic industry on Long Island and the mainland coast around Long Island Sound was focused primarily on the use of quartz cobbles that are ubiquitous on the region's beaches. However, recent research at the McGregor site on eastern Long Island suggests that small quarries or workshops at isolated glacial erratics also served as an important source of lithic material Stations such as McGregor provided needed lithic materialfor manufacturing expedient tools when people were engaged in activities such as hunting and collecting plant foods away from the coastal areas, and thus did not have ready access to quartz cobbles. The identification of the McGregor site broadens our under standing of the range of lithic technology and raw material usage in coastal New York.
Keywords: anthropology

Provenance of Fossiliferous Clasts in Carboniferous Conglomerates, Isle Madame, Southern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia - Boucot, A. J.; E. Landing; Boyce, W. D.; Barr, S. M.; White, C. E. (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2006)
Fossiliferous clasts occur in Carboniferous conglomerate in the Horton Group on western Isle Madame and in the Mabou Group on eastern Isle Madame. Most of the clasts (21 of 23 examined) are calcareous siltstone and sandstone that contain Silurian Lower Devonian faunas comparable to those in the Arisaig area, northern mainland Nova Scotia, although the lithologies are coarser grained and less calcareous than those of the Arisaig section. These middle Paleozoic faunas are well constrained to the Silurian (uppermost Llandovery through Pridoli) and lowest Devonian and are characteristic of those known from shallow siliciclastic-dominated platforms of the Avalon microcontinent in Wales and England. The remaining two clasts have abundant inarticulate brachiopod shells that indicate provenance from Middle Cambrian proximal marine facies on the Avalonian marginal platform. No clasts were found that are likely to have been derived from the Torbrook Formation, and thus from the Meguma terrane in southwestern Nova Scotia, as has been previously reported. The association of relatively large, reworked fossiliferous clasts in Carboniferous conglomerate on Isle Madame suggests local derivation from lower and middle Paleozoic units not presently exposed, although probably present as subcrop under the Carboniferous units, in southwestern Cape Breton Island and adjacent mainland Nova Scotia.
Keywords: eastern Isle Madame; fossiliferous clasts; Horton Group; Isle Madame; Mabou Group

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1096.21.101, Route 50 over the Indian Kill, Town of Glenville, Schenectady County, New York. - Boyle, M.; C. B. Rieth (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Jay Bridge Town of Essex County, New York (Pamphlet) - Boyle, M. (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

After the Horror of War, a "Song to Joy" - Burch, R. J. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

The Gift of Birds: A Sort of Fairy Tale - Burch, R. J. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

At Home on the Delaware and Hudson Canal - J. S. Cardinal (Legacy, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9067.17.121, Route 17 over Neversink River, Town of Thompson, Sullivan County, New York. - J. S. Cardinal; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1188.27.101, Route 67 over Hudson River, City of Mechanicville, Town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County, New York. - J. S. Cardinal (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Rhoades Site: Archaeology of a 19th Century Rural Community (Pamphlet) - J. S. Cardinal (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1306.61.121, Route 7 over the Hoosick River, Town of Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York. - B. R. Dale; M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Raymond Dale, James Holloway, and Eva Coursen Site, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York - B. R. Dale (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Site Examination of the Raymond Dale and James Holloway Sites, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York. - B. R. Dale (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources