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NEWS:.
.:4/16/2008: The 2008 New York State Archaeology Season poster has been printed and is available. Check out the design ...read more
.:1/09/2008: The new PAF photo archive is up and running. Head over to our CAP site and check out photos of some of our projects and community programs. All...read more
.:12/07/2006: The Herrick Hollow mini-site is up and running. Follow the link to learn about Archaeology on the Divide, the prehistory of the uplands...read more
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CURRENT PROJECTS:.
.:Hale Eddy: PAF returns to the Hale Eddy area this fall to complete the examination of several...
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PAF Staff
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Nina Versaggi, PhD (Director and Principal Investigator)
Versaggi received her doctorate in Anthropology from SUNY-Binghamton in 1988, her MA from SUNY Binghamton in 1976 and her BA from Rutgers University in 1974. She has been active in professional archaeology since 1972. Professional positions held include Director of the Public Archaeology Facility since 1988, Partner in Compliance Survey Associates for 6 years, Guest Curator at the Roberson Museum and Science Center, and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hartwick College Museums. She serves as principal investigator for all current and past projects of the Public Archaeology Facility including the statewide Department of Transportation subcontract with the New York State Museum. She has authored numerous articles on New York State archaeology, including: "Hunter to Farmer: 10,000 Years of Susquehanna Valley Prehistory," "Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Models: Interpreting the Upper Susquehanna Valley," and "An Overview of Prehistoric Settlement Patterns and Landforms in the Northern Appalachians." She is a former member of the board for the Preservation Association of the Southern Tier, and a current board member for the New York Archaeological Council where she chairs the Professional Survey and Report Standards Committee. She serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Binghamton University
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Chris Hohman, MA (Assistant to the Director, Project Director)
Hohman received his MA in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut in 1986 and his BA in Anthropology from the University of Rhode Island in 1983. He has worked in professional archaeology since 1983 and in 1987 joined the staff of the Public Archaeology Facility. From 1990 to 1991, he served as one of the Coordinators at Garrow and Associates for the 300+ mile Iroquois Gas Pipeline project in New York and Connecticut. He has served as project director on a wide range of surveys, prehistoric and historic site examinations, as well as data recoveries on historic sites in Niagara Falls, Elmira, Kortright and Dansville and on a prehistoric district along Herrick Hollow in Sidney and Masonville. His research interests include Northeast prehistory and historic settlement in both urban and rural settings. He has also served as the assistant to the director at PAF since 1998. The author of over 275 cultural resource management reports, he currently coordinates field operations and directs projects for PAF's statewide highway contract with the State Museum, as well as other projects in New York and Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists since 1999, the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology since 1999, and is also a member of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut.
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Tim Knapp, MA (Project Director, Ceramic Analyst, CAP Co-Director)
Knapp is currently a doctoral candidate at Binghamton University in Anthropology with a specialty in prehistoric Northeastern North America. He completed his MA in Anthropology at Western Michigan University in 1992, and his BS in Anthropology and Physical Science from Kansas State University. He has worked in professional archaeology since 1986. In 1993, he joined the staff of the Public Archaeology Facility as a field/project director. His research interests include the Late Woodland Owasco/Iroquois settlements of the Susquehanna and Chemung drainages of New York as well as lithic and ceramic analysis. The author of numerous cultural resource management reports, he currently directs projects for PAF's statewide highway contract with the State Museum, and other projects in the Southern Tier. He is completing his doctoral thesis on an Owasco site in the Chemung valley near Lowman, New York.
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Maria Pezzuti, MPA (Administrative Director)
Pezzuti received her Master of Public Administration in 2004 from the State University of New York at Binghamton . She has administered contracts and grants since 1984, where she was on the staff of the Research Foundation of SUNY, Office of Contract and Grant Administration in Albany, NY. There she monitored the NYS Education Department Highway Salvage contract for all participating SUNY campuses. In 1986 she moved to the Office of Sponsored Programs at Binghamton University where she was responsible for preparing research proposals for submittal to funding agencies. She joined the Public Archaeology Facility in 1989 and from 1992-2001 held a concurrent half time position in the Department of Biological Sciences as Project Coordinator of educational grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In addition, she has also worked as curator of the Vestal Museum, a small historical museum, and held the positions of secretary and President for the Vestal Historical Society.
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Brian Grills, MA (Project Director)
Grills received his MA in Anthropology from SUNY-Binghatmon in 2003 and his BA in History from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1994. Grills has completed two field schools, SUNY-Cortland (1992) and University of York (1994). He has worked at the Public Archaeology Facility, as a field tech, crew chief, and field director, since 1995. Grills served as Assistant Instructor for the Binghamton University, Department of Anthropology field school in prehistoric archaeology at the Castle Gardens Site in 2003 and the Owego Site in 2002. His research interests include lithic technology, prehistoric exchange networks and prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of Eastern North America. His Masters thesis is titled, The Organization of Lithic Technology in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley: An Examination of the Variability in Physiographic Context and Stone Tool Production. Professional papers include: Developing a Regional Model of Lithic Technological Organization in the Upper Susquehanna River Drainage, presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the New York State Archaeological Association Conference, Norwich, New York and Placing Stone Tool Production in Context: Interpreting Small Lithic Sites in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley, presented in 2003 at the Current Approaches to the Analysis and Interpretation of Small Lithic Sites in the Northeast, New York State Museum Colloquium, Albany, New York.
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Maria ODonovan, PhD (Project Director)
O'Donovan received her Ph.D in Anthropology in 1997 from SUNY-Binghamton, her MA in 1989 from the University of Arizona and her BA in 1987 from SUNY-Binghamton. She has worked in professional archaeology since 1987 and has served as a field/project director at the Public Archaeology Facility since 1990. Her research interests include the development of complex societies and landscape analysis. She has worked in northwest Mexico and the southwestern United States and the northeastern United States as a staff member of PAF. She has presented several papers at professional meetings based on data from northwest Mexico and the historic northeast and has authored numerous cultural resource management reports. She has served as an adjunct lecturer at SUNY-Cortland and as a project director for PAF's statewide highway contract with the State Museum, as well as other projects in New York State.
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Sam Kudrle, MA (Project Director)
Sam Kudrle received his BA, Magna Cum Laude, in Anthropology from SUNY Plattsburgh in 1997 with a concentration in human ecology and physical anthropology. He completed his MA in anthropology at Binghamton University in 1999 with a concentration in human bio-archaeology. Kudrle has been a member of the Dental Anthropology Association since 1999. He completed an archaeological field school at SUNY Plattsburgh in 1996 and has worked as a professional archaeologist since 1998. Kudrle has been a project director at PAF since May 2001, and has authored numerous CRM reports.
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Daniel Seib, MA (Project Director)
Daniel Seib received his MA in Anthropology from Indiana University in 2002 with a specialization in zooarchaeology. Seib also studied Criminal Justice at Indiana University, earning his BA in 1995 and his MA in 1998. He completed archaeological field schools at Indiana University in 2000 and 2001 studying the Pottersville Site, an Oliver Phase prehistoric site in southern Indiana. Seib also attended an underwater archaeology field school in 2001 studying the Red River Wreck, and early 1800s steamboat wreck along the Texas/Oklahaoma boarder. He worked as a professional archaeologist for the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology in Bloomington, IN before coming to PAF. Seib joined PAF as a professional archaeologist in 2002. He is the author of numerous cultural resource management reports for a variety of sites across New York State. Seib is a member of PAF’s HAZMAT team and has completed the 40-hour OSHA mandated training. Seib’s current research interests include zooarchaeology and the archaeology of rural blacksmith shops in upstate New York.
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Jim Levandowski, MA (Project Director)
Levandowski received his MA from Binghamton University in 2001 and his BA from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1993. He has worked in professional archaeology since 1993. The majority of his career has been as an employee of the Public Archaeology Facility. He has served as either field or project director for many NYSDOT and non-DOT projects. His research interests include historic archaeology, statistics and spatial patterning.
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Mary Lou Supa, BA (Drafting Director)
Supa received her BA in Art History from SUNY-Binghamton and completed graduate course work towards a Master's Degree in Art History while at Binghamton. Her work experience ranges from the museum field (collection care and preservation, educational programming and curator) to graphic design and desktop publishing. Supa serves as the chief drafter for Public Archaeology Facility providing project maps, site plans and soil profiles for the state-wide highway contract, pipelines contracts, and other small and large projects for private sector jobs.
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Andrea Zlotucha Kozub, MA (Project Director)
Zlotucha Kozub received her Master’s Degree in Anthropology from Binghamton University in 2000 and her BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Middlebury College in 1995. She joined the Public Archaeology Facility in 1999, and has also worked on projects in Alaska, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and the United Kingdom. Other professional positions include adjunct faculty at Cazenovia College, instructor for the 2001 Binghamton University Field School, and museum intern for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Additional research projects have included faunal analysis for the Ludlow Massacre archaeological site in Colorado and the French Azilum historic site in Pennsylvania, for which she was awarded a Scholars-in-Residence grant by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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Mike Rudler, BA (Project Director)
Rudler received his BA in Anthropology from SUNY-Binghamton in 1995. He attended field school in Owego, New York under Dr. Charles Cobb and participated in the NSF-sponsored 1995 excavations at Cerro de Trincheras in Sonora, Mexico under Dr. Randall McGuire. He has worked in professional archaeology since 1994, when he joined the staff of the Public Archaeology Facility. Since 1997, Rudler has served as Field Director on a wide range of historic and prehistoric data recoveries, site exams, and surveys and is a co-author on a number of cultural resource management reports. He is a member of the PAF HAZMAT team and has completed the 40-hour OSHA mandated training. His research interests include Northeast prehistory and 19th century rural and urban settlements.
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Janna Rudler, MA (Lab Director)
Rudler received her BA in Anthropology from Binghamton University in 1995, and her MA in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (NYSHA & SUNY Oneonta) in August 2005. She joined the staff of the Public Archaeology Facility in 1994 and participated in reconnaissance, site examination, and data recovery projects in upstate New York prior to her 1997 promotion to Laboratory Director. In 1995, she worked with a team of American and Mexican archaeologists at the site of Cerro de Trincheras in Sonora, Mexico under the direction of Dr. Randall McGuire and Elisa Villalpando of the Centro del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) of Sonora. As PAF’s Lab Director, Rudler’s responsibilities include cataloguing, specialized analysis, and curation of the historic and prehistoric artifacts generated by PAF contracts. Her specialties include historic ceramics, faunal and lithics analysis. Rudler conducted the faunal analysis for the historic Rainbow Plaza, Keith Site, and Harvey Justice Data Recoveries as well as for numerous site examination projects. Her lithic studies include assisting Dr. Melody Pope with the analysis of the collection from the Camp Nelson Site (15Js97 Jessamine Co., KY), supervising the cataloguing and analysis of the lithic debitage from the Noe Site (15Lo182 Logan Co., KY), as well as for numerous site examinations in New York state. Her historic vessel analysis projects include the Harvey Justice Data Recovery, the 2003 Hale Eddy site exams, and many other site exams and data recoveries.
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Lynda Carroll, MA (Project Director)
Carroll is currently a doctoral student at Binghamton University in Anthropology. She received her MA in Anthropology from Binghamton University in 1997, and her BA in anthropology from Queens College, CUNY in 1992. Her research interests include historical archaeology, post-medieval archaeology, consumption studies, ceramic, landscape studies and the archaeology of nomadic populations. She has been on the PAF staff since 1992. She has supervised various reconnaissance projects, site examinations, and data recoveries, and prepared technical reports at PAF. She has regularly worked with the CAP for Kids program and is involved with PAF's community outreach program. She has served as an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Cortland. Additional research includes surveying projects in Turkey and Jordan. She has received research grants from the Social Science Research Council, American Research Institute in Turkey and the Institute for Turkish Studies. She edited an issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology entitled Commodities in Global Perspective, and co-edited a book on the Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. She has published articles and presented on her research areas at national and international conferences.
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Laurie Miroff, Ph.D. (Project Director, CAP Co-Director)
Miroff received her Ph.D in Anthropology in 2002 from Binghamton University. She completed her MA in Teaching in 1995 and her MA in Anthropology in 1994 from Binghamton University. Her BA, received in 1991, is from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She has worked professionally in archaeology since 1989 and is the author of numerous cultural resource management reports for PAF's statewide highway contract with the New York State Museum, and other projects in New York State. She also serves as a Visiting Professor at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. Her research interests include Late Prehistoric community organization in the Susquehanna and Chemung drainages, household archaeology, spatial analysis, lithic and ceramic analysis, and public education and archaeology. She has been a member of the New York Archaeological Council since 1996.
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Rich Kastl, MA (Project Director)
Kastl received his MA in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1978 and his BA in Anthropology from Northern Illinois University in 1974. He has worked in the museum profession as a curator and museum director between 1978 and 1989. He has worked in professional archaeology since joining the staff of the Public Archaeology Facility as architectural historian in 1989. His research interests include Historic Archaeology, historic barns and farmsteads, and using Geographic Information Systems in archaeological research. He teaches as adjunct faculty for Penn State University/Wilkes-Barre. He has conducted an archaeological field school for Elmira College at the Quarry Farm Site between 1993 and 1997. He is the author of numerous cultural resource management reports, and currently directs projects for PAF’s statewide highway contract with the State Museum, and other projects elsewhere in New York State.
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Sara Grills, MA (Project Director)
Grills received her MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London in 1997, specializing in Levantine and Arabian Archaeology. She received her BA in Mediterranean Archaeology from SUNY- Albany in 1996, during which time she interned in the Archaeology Laboratory at the New York State Museum. She has worked at the Public Archaeology Facility, as a field tech, crew chief, and project director, since completing her MA in 1997. Prior to that she taught field school for the University of Maryland at the Combined Caesarea Expeditions in Israel. Her research interests include early Bronze Age settlements in Canaan, nomadic/pastoral archaeology, glacial land use and GIS applications in archaeology.
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Melody Pope, PhD (Lithic Analyst)
Pope completed her Ph.D in Anthropology from Binghamton University in 1998. She received her MA in Anthropology from SUNY University at Binghamton in 1989 and her BA in Anthropology from Indiana University in 1979. She has been active in professional archaeology since 1977. Pope specializes in prehistoric lithic analysis, both reduction and microwear. She has served as a consultant in this capacity on projects in Iraq, and the Eastern and Midwestern US, working for the Smithsonian Institution, the Iroquois Gas Pipeline, the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, Public Archaeology state-wide highway contract, National Geographic/Earthwatch projects, and British Archaeological Expeditions to the Middle East. She has presented numerous papers of lithic analysis at professional meetings, and has published in a peer-reviewed journal. Pope currently serves as lithic specialist with the Public Archaeology Facility and Wilbur Smith and Associates of Kentucky.
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Cynthia Carrington Carter, MS (Architectural Historian)
Carrington Carter received her MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont in 1994 and her BA in Architectural History from SUNY in 1988. She has prepared national register nominations, reconnaissance surveys and cultural resources reports. She has experience in community development, preservation planning, museum curation and cultural resources management.
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Barbara Ross, MA (Assistant Director for Highway)
Ross received her MS in Public Archaeology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and her BA in Anthropology from SUNY at Albany in 1978. She has been active in professional archaeology since 1979 as a principal investigator with various NYS private firms and the NYS Museum's Cultural Resource Survey Program (NYSM CRSP). She served as Assistant Director of the NYSM CRSP from 1983 - 1995. This position included three years as interim director as well as liaison with NYS client agencies and SUNY subcontractors. Her primary area of interest is late eighteenth and nineteenth century rural residential/agricultural archaeology and architecture/landscape preservation. She joined the staff of the Public Archaeology Facility in 1996 to assist the program director with administration of its statewide highway contract with the NYSM.
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Kevin Sheridan, PhD (Project Director)
Sheridan received his PhD from Binghamton University in 2007, with graduate certificates in Evolutionary Studies and Advanced Biological Study. He completed his BA at SUNY Oswego, with a double major in Anthropology and Sociology. Sheridan previously interned at the New York State Museum Anthropological Survey and completed an archaeological field school through SUNY-Albany in 1996. He has worked as a professional archaeologist since 1996, having served on a number of historic and prehistoric data recoveries, site exams and surveys. In addition, he has research experience in forensic anthropology, molecular biology, cognitive science and evolutionary psychology. Sheridan has taught undergraduate and graduate courses as an Instructor of Record at Binghamton University. He is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, the Human Biology Association, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and Sigma Xi. His research interests include Northeast prehistory, archaeobotany, human biogeography, evolutionary anthropology and bioarchaeology.
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Claire Horn, MA (Field Director)
Horn completed her MA in anthropology at the University of Denver in 1998 with a concentration in archaeology. She is currently completing a Ph.D. at Binghamton University (SUNY). Her research interests include 19th and 20th century historic archaeology in the U.S. For her M.A. thesis work, Horn analyzed preliminary archaeological findings at the Ludlow tent colony, a site inhabited by striking coal miners and their families in southern Colorado. For her dissertation, she has continued with this site and the nearby coal town of Berwind, focusing on the health- and hygiene-related practices of the inhabitants. She has also conducted fieldwork at the French Azilum site in Pennsylvania. She has worked as a professional archaeologist since 1998, and has been a field director with the Public Archaeology Facility since 2004.
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