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Annual Conference and Meeting

Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology

Connecting People and Places

Utica, NY October 21-23, 2011

Fieldtrips and Workshops

As you plan to register, please consider signing up for a field trip or workshop to be held on Friday October 21. Utica and Central New York provide many wonderful experiences and the organizing committee is pleased to announce that the following field trips and workshops will be offered. Event descriptions, times, and ticket prices are listed below. Bus transportation is provided in each ticket cost.

Fieldtrips include:

1) Oneida Community Mansion House and Shako:Wi, the Oneida Indian Cultural Center, (8:00am-1:00pm);

ticket cost: US/CDN: $35.00 ($5 of this ticket price covers the entrance fee to the Oneida Mansion House)

On this trip, participants will visit two important landmarks in Central New York’s historical and cultural landscape. At the Oneida Community Mansion House, participants will visit the property and settlement created by the utopian Oneida Community (1848-1880). Started in 1861, the Oneida Mansion House reflects popular architectural styles of the 19th century. Participants can tour the property and learn about the history of the more than 300 inhabitants of this historic utopian community.

For more information, please visit: http://www.oneidacommunity.org/

The Shako:wi Cultural Center, a hand-crafted white pine log building, stands on Oneida Nation lands and houses Oneida arts and crafts, including basketry, beadwork, and wampum. Visitors may also learn stories from the past and present of the Oneida people.

For more information, please visit: http://www.oneidaindiannation.com/culture/shako/26868159.html

2) Fort Stanwix National Monument, (8:00am-1:00pm);

ticket cost: US/CDN $25.00

This trip provides attendees the opportunity to explore Fort Stanwix, an important site where important treaties were signed between the Six Nations of the Iroquois and the British and, after the Revolution, the newly independent United States. Participants may tour the Marinus Willett Collections Management and Education Center, which includes a state-of-the-art archaeological laboratory and artifact storage facility, and a reconstruction of the Fort. Interpreters and Curators will be available to answer questions during the visit.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.nps.gov/fost/historyculture/fort-stanwix-in-the-american-revolution.htm

3) Cooperstown, (8:00am-4:00pm);

ticket cost: US/CDN $45.00

A day trip to Cooperstown will provide participants a chance to visit the world-class Farmers’ Museum and the Fenimore Art Museum, the traditional Belgian Brewery Ommegang and, of course, the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Separate entry fees are required for many of Cooperstown's points of interest.

For more information, please visit: http://www.thisiscooperstown.com/

4)

CNEHA Professional Enrichment Workshop

(9:00am - 2:00pm)

; cost: US/CDN $35.00; Location: Utica College Anthropology Laboratory

Minimum enrollment: 10; Maximum enrollment: 20

Practical Aspects of Bioarchaeology Fieldwork and Laboratory Analysis

Workshop Leaders: Kimberly A. Morrell (URS Corporation) and Thomas A. Crist, Ph.D. (Utica College)

CNEHA’s professional enrichment workshop series provides opportunities to practicing archaeologists for continuing education and an introduction for students to specialized areas of analysis.

These workshops emphasize practical, hands-on activities combined with presentations by experienced experts in their fields. All participants receive course materials including a syllabus and a list of recommended resources appropriate to the topic. Certificates of completion will be awarded to all registrants.

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participants to the practical aspects of detecting, excavating, storing, and analyzing human remains from historic-period graves. Using historical coffins, hardware, and actual human remains, this interactive workshop is led by a forensic anthropologist and an archaeologist who collectively have excavated and analyzed more than 2,000 burials. Among the topics that will be covered are the most effective methods for locating historical graves; correct field techniques and in situ documentation; the effects of taphonomic processes; appropriate health and safety issues; and fostering descendant community involvement and public outreach efforts. Participants also will review the basic analytical techniques that forensic anthropologists use to determine demographic profiles and recognize pathologic lesions and evidence of trauma. No previous experience with human skeletal remains is required to participate in and benefit from this workshop.

To reserve a seat, please contact Tom Crist by October 14 at tcrist@utica.edu or 315-792-3390.

For more information, contact the conference organizers:

Thomas Crist, Co-chair
Tcrist@utica.edu
(315) 792-3390

Helen Blouet, Co-chair
Hblouet@utica.edu
(315)223-2468

Conference email: cneha2011@utica.edu

Conference website: http://www.utica.edu/cneha2011