Daniel Mazeau

CRSP Principal Investigator
518-408-1772

M.A., Anthropology, 2000, University at Buffalo
B.A. Anthropology, 1998, University at Albany

Prehistoric archaeology of Northeast U.S., lithic analysis, settlement patterns and landscape systems, socioeconomic anthropology, sociopolitical systems and structure, and coastal archaeology and adaptation.

Current CRSP Projects:

  • Data Recovery of the Engels Farm site, Colonie, New York. 
  • Data Recovery of the Papscanee Creek Site 3, East Greenbush, New York.
  • Archaeological Monitoring of the Rehabilitation of NYS Route 4, Hudson Falls, New York.

Current Research Projects:

  • Lithic resource exploitation and tool production in Southern New York (with Sean Higgins).
  • Pre-contact settlement patterns on Long Island, New York.
  • History of Long Island Archaeology.
  • Settlement patterns and lithic economy in the upper Hudson River Valley

Publications

2020

J. Hart, R. Feranec 2020, Using Maize δ15N values to assess soil fertility in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century AD Iroquoian agricultural fields, PLOS ONE 15, e0230952. 10.1371/journal.pone.0230952
R. Feranec, Brandon McDonald, Troi Perkins, Robert Dunn, Jennifer McDonald, Holly Cole, Roland Kays 2020, High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation, PeerJ 8, e8337. 10.7717/peerj.8337
R. Feranec, L. DeSantis, T. Tung, T. Dillehay 2020, Early specialized maritime and maize economies on the north coast of Peru, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009121117. 10.1073/pnas.2009121117

2019

R. Feranec, Kena Fox-Dobbs, John Harris, Thure Cerling, Jonathan Crites, Aisling Farrell, Gary Takeuchi, Larisa DeSantis 2019, Causes and Consequences of Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions as Revealed from Rancho La Brea Mammals, Current Biology 29, 2488-2495. 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.059
J. Hart, R. Feranec 2019, Fish and maize: Bayesian mixing models of fourteenth- through seventeenth-century AD ancestral Wendat diets, Ontario, Canada, Scientific Reports 9, 16658. 10.1038/s41598-019-53076-7
R. Feranec, S. Fiedel, T. Marino, D. Driver 2019, A New AMS Radiocarbon Date for the Ivory Pond Mastodon, Eastern Paleontologist 3, 1-15.
J. Hart, R. Feranec 2019, The Dog That Wasn’t: An Historical Pig Burial on the Sixteenth-Century AD Klock Site, Fulton County, New York, Archaeology of Eastern North America 47, 1-6.
J. Hart, R. Feranec, T. Abel, J. Vavrasek 2019, Freshwater reservoir offsets on radiocarbon-dated dog bone from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River, USA, PeerJ 7, e7174. 10.7717/peerj.7174
R. Feranec, S. Ledogar, J. Karsten, G. Madden, R. Schmidt, M. Sokohatskyi 2019, New AMS Dates for Verteba Cave and Stable Isotope Evidence of Human Diet in the Holocene Forest-Steppe, Ukraine, Radiocarbon 61, 141-158. 10.1017/RDC.2018.52
R. Feranec, H. McDonald, N. Miller 2019, First record of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, (Xenarthra, Megalonychidae) from New York and contributions to its paleoecology, Quaternary International 530-531, 42-46. 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.11.021