A short list of seminal works on New York State prehistoric and historic archaeology. Additions are welcome.

Prehistoric Archaeology Resources

Bradley, James W.

1987 Evolution of the Onondaga Iroquois Accommodating Change, 1500-1655. Syracuse University Press.

Braun, Esther K. and David P. Braun

1994 The First Peoples of the Northeast. Lincoln Historical Society.

Engelbrecht, William

2003 Iroquoia: The Development of a Native World. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Funk, Robert

1997 An Introduction to the History of Prehistoric Archaeology in New York State. The Bulletin: Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association Number 113 pp. 4-59.

Funk, Robert E.

1993 Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Susquehanna Valley, New York State. Buffalo: Persimmon Press.

Holland, John D.

2004 Lithic Types of New York. The Bulletin, New York State Archaeological Association Number 120, pp. 17-36.

Lenik, Edward

2002 Picture Rocks: American Indian Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands. University Press of New England. (Chapter 12 deals with New York.)

Pratt, Peter P.

1976 Archaeology of the Oneida Iroquois. Man in the Northeast Occasional Publications in Northeastern Archaeology No. 1. George's Mills, New Hampshire.

Ritchie, William A.

1961 A Typology and Nomenclature for New York Projectile Points. Bulletin No. 384. Albany: New York State Museum & Science Service.

Ritchie, William A.

2000 The Archaeology of New York State. New York: Doubleday.

Ritchie, William A. and Robert E. Funk

1973 Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in the Northeast. Memoir 20. Albany: New York State Museum and Science Service.

Snow, Dean R.

1980 The Archaeology of New England. New York: Academic Press.

Snow, Dean R., Charles T. Gehring, and William A. Starna

1996 In Mohawk Country, Early Narratives about a Native People. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Tuck, James A.

1971 Onondaga Iroquois Prehistory, A Study in Settlement Archaeology. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Wilber, C. Keith

1995 The Woodland Indians: An Illustrated Account of the Lifestyles of America's First Inhabitants. Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press.

Historic Archaeology Resources

Cantwell, Anne-Marie and Diana diZerega Wall

2001 Unearthing Gotham : The Archaeology of New York City . Yale University Press, New Haven.

Chrisman, Kevin

1986 Of Sailing Ships and Sidewheelers: The History and Nautical Archaeology of Lake Champlain. Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.

Hart, John and Charles Fisher

2000 Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Domestic Site Archaeology in New York State. Albany, NY: New York State Museum Bulletin 495.

Huey, Paul R.

1997 The Origin and Development of Historical Archaeology in New York State The Bulletin: Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association Number 113 pp. 60-96.

Leone, M. and Parker Potter

1994 The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States. Smithsonian Institution Press.

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