New York State Archaeological Association
Founded in 2005 in Ithaca, NY
Chapter Officers
President: Scott Stull, Scott.Stull@cortland.edu
Vice President: Wendy Bacon, wendyjbacon@icloud.com
Secretary: Sherene Baugher, sbb8@cornell.edu
Treasurer: Paula Turkon, pturkon@ithaca.edu
Spring 2026 Meetings
April 22, 2026
March 11, 2026
Case Studies in the Colonialist World of Mandate-Era Archaeology: A Tell en-Naṣbeh (Palestine) Trilogy
A presentation by Jeffrey Zorn, PhD. (Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University)
On Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 5:30 pm
At the History Center in Tompkins County, 110 North Tioga Street, Ithaca NY
Archaeologists have begun to wrestle with their part in the western colonialist enterprise of the last few centuries. This presentation explores how three Middle Eastern archaeologists, whose careers intersected at Tell en-Naṣbeh (near Ramallah) in 1929, navigated the social dynamics of western-led excavation hierarchies.
Fall 2025 Meetings
Place of Meeting
The History Center in Tompkins County, 110 North Tioga Street, Ithaca NY
Spring 2025 Meeting
March 17: “The Animals Behind the Bones: How Animals Influenced Human Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean.” by Dr. Lubna Omar, Associate Director Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Binghamton University.
Fall 2024 Meetings
October 24: “Desert Water Harvesting in the Charharbagh of the Mughal/Rajput Ahichhatragarh Fort at Nagaur, Rajasthan, India” by Kathryn Gleason, Professor Emerita of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University.
Spring 2024 Meetings
March 18: “The Limits of Pharoah’s Power: Life in New Kingdom Israel” by Jacob Damm, Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies.
April 29 “Imagery, Warfare and Identity: Iroquoian Painted Trees in the
Upper Susquehanna Valley” by David Moyer, from Susquehanna River Archaeological Center (SRAC)
Fall 2023 Meetings
October 15: Walking tour of the graves of formerly enslaved and free African Americans in the Ithaca City Cemetery by Christina O’Malley and Patricia Longoria from Historic Ithaca.
November 6: “From Beringia to New York: Peopling the Northeast” by Scott D. Stull from Ithaca College and SUNY Cortland.