tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15235812848340419722024-02-07T04:16:11.739-08:00NYSAA Upper Susquehanna ChapterTony L.E.S. NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04470399844535024469noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523581284834041972.post-51889485018583980842018-02-24T11:58:00.003-08:002018-02-24T11:58:52.177-08:00Update Contact for the NYSAA Upper Susquehanna Chapter<div>
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13235099723745608910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523581284834041972.post-33213199151150156742013-05-24T17:57:00.002-07:002013-05-24T17:57:51.443-07:00New Paint Job Inside the Historic/Iroquois Room.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span>
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Over 100 visitors, 3 new members, and over $100 raised in our bake sale and donations.Tony L.E.S. NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04470399844535024469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523581284834041972.post-58817760214896386702012-05-24T17:06:00.000-07:002012-05-24T17:06:21.442-07:002012 Open House a Huge Success!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Tony L.E.S. NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04470399844535024469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523581284834041972.post-58893833193976433502012-05-12T16:22:00.000-07:002012-05-12T16:26:07.184-07:00Upper Susquehanna Chapter Archaeology Open House @ the Roland B. Hill Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Come one and All to the Upper Susquehanna Chapter Archaeology Open House at the Roland Hill Museum!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">When: May 19th from 9am-3pm</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">What: Free admission to the chapter's museum, flintknapping, cordage making and other early technology demonstrations, hands-on children's activities. Come one and all to our big annual event!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Where: The Roland Hill Memorial Museum of Archaeology, 92 Main St. Otego, NY</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">The Museum will be open on Saturdays from 11-4 and Sundays 1-4pm all summer long and by appointment. </span></span></span></div>Tony L.E.S. NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04470399844535024469noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523581284834041972.post-22285231047175845842012-02-18T16:19:00.000-08:002012-02-18T16:19:48.572-08:00Upper Susquehanna chapter members Doug Idleman, Mike Reynolds, David Moyer providing an introduction to Flintknapping at SUCO Prof. Cindy Klink's Lithic Analysis class.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirx6srYiUMDI8yTf5NCvgbB_98XAkgjpQypViq1-51j_oJEQhfrPctHcXANvOqx57X4PZ9h81-sq_OHRStLA6oaIQ96eOLzIo9vo3ROlsERjfv9q44MiOj7xl_EMht7cJw27MPHHm-cYo/s1600/IMG_9103+Lithics+Class.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirx6srYiUMDI8yTf5NCvgbB_98XAkgjpQypViq1-51j_oJEQhfrPctHcXANvOqx57X4PZ9h81-sq_OHRStLA6oaIQ96eOLzIo9vo3ROlsERjfv9q44MiOj7xl_EMht7cJw27MPHHm-cYo/s320/IMG_9103+Lithics+Class.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Doug Idleman is demonstrating hard hammer percussion to Cindy Klink's Lithics class at SUNY Oneonta.</span><br />
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Prehistoric Artifacts in the Collections<br />
of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society<br />
<br />
Anyone who happens to find themselves in downtown Oneonta on a Tuesday or Saturday<br />
afternoon should stop into the Greater Oneonta Historical Society (GOHS)’s History<br />
Center located at 183 Main Street. They have a wide collection of material from Oneonta<br />
area, including Native American artifacts, both on display as well as behind the scenes in<br />
their collections<br />
<br />
Prehistoric artifacts only make up a small percentage of the material on display at the<br />
museum, although the artifacts they do show are diverse and of notable quality. All of the<br />
artifacts currently on display were collected by Earl Merrill and donated to the historical<br />
society by his son, Jack Merrill. Artifacts on display include:<br />
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Projectile points 40<br />
Scrapers 2<br />
Bannerstones 4<br />
Pipes 2<br />
Clay Effigy 1<br />
Total # Artifacts 49<br />
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Other artifacts from the Merrill collection not on display include a cigar box and silver<br />
flatware box filled with artifacts. Richard Johnson, Collections Coordinator for the<br />
GOHS states that to date they’ve found a total of 173 artifacts in the collection that they<br />
believe to part of the Merrill collection. Sadly, no provenience information about where<br />
Merrill’s artifacts came from currently exists, severely limiting the research potential of<br />
the collection.<br />
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The finest of Merrill’s artifacts are displayed on cards and in a glass display case (Photos<br />
1-6). Of note within the collection are a series of two pipes and clay effigy face (Photo<br />
4). One of the pipes is made of clay and has an effigy face that would have faced the<br />
user (Photo 5), while the other is a clay platform pipe, which is not typical of our area<br />
and may have been traded with someone from farther west. The clay effigy face is also<br />
impressive and unusually individualistic (Photo 6). The head itself appears too round to<br />
have once been attached to a pot although it may have been part of a pipe. I did not see<br />
evidence of a hole where it might have been worn as a bead or attached to an object. The<br />
face appears in remarkably good condition.<br />
<br />
In addition to the Merrill collection, the historical society also has another collection of<br />
Native American material formerly belonging to George Hale. The collection includes a<br />
pestle and eleven glass display boxes of other artifacts from collection of the late George<br />
Hale of Binghamton. The accession card for the collection states: “Artifacts dug up on<br />
the Van Woert Farm along Susquehanna River. Given through the courtesy of Mr. and<br />
<br />
Mrs. Floyd Baker, Oneonta, NY May 1973.” A total of 369 artifacts exist in the Hale<br />
collection including the pestle.<br />
<br />
It may be worthwhile to research the location of the Van Woert farm on historic maps<br />
with the hopes of identifying the site’s approximate location. While this information<br />
would be no substitute for the detailed level of provenience information archaeologists<br />
require to interpret and understand the past, it might increase the research value of the<br />
collection if we knew where in Otego they were found. I could find no mention of the<br />
Van Woert farm in the Hill Museum’s electronic database, suggesting that farm may<br />
have been one of the less extensively collected sites in the town. There may be artifacts<br />
from the Van Woert farm in the Upper Susquehanna Collection at the Yager Museum at<br />
Hartwick College, although additional research would be required to know with certainty.<br />
<br />
None of the artifacts in either of these two collections have been inventoried and<br />
no catalog currently exists. Such a project would be an excellent undertaking for an<br />
experienced student or avocational archaeologist seeking to increase their experience<br />
working with artifacts while helping to make these collections available for research.<br />
<br />
While the artifacts on display are few but fine, the text which accompanies the display<br />
is also well worth noting. Rather than to glamorize the unscientific collecting practices<br />
of Merrill and others, the text seeks to make the reader aware of the tragic problem of<br />
unprovenienced artifact collecting. The display cites some grim statistics, including that<br />
over 100,000 artifacts have likely been taken from the Upper Susquehanna region by<br />
unscientific collectors without any provenience information. Overall, the display does a<br />
good job of explaining the error of otherwise well-intentioned collecting and shows how<br />
critical provenience information is to reconstructing past behavior. If you’re in downtown<br />
Oneonta you’d do well to stop in- it’s well worth a visit!<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
Thanks to Richard D. Johnson, Collections Coordinator at the GOHS. The History Center<br />
is located at 183 Main Street in Oneonta and is open on Tuesdays and Saturdays. You can<br />
contact them at 607-432-0960 or via the web at www.oneontahistory.org/Tony L.E.S. NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04470399844535024469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523581284834041972.post-56734247987207059992011-07-20T10:24:00.000-07:002013-08-06T10:15:26.517-07:00Inside The Roland B. Hill Museum Archaeology Exhibit. Located at 361 Main St, Otego, NY 13825 Open Saturday 11:00AM-4:00PM & Sunday 1:00PM-4:00PM Also by appointment call 607-988-2229 or email NYSAA@googlegroups.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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