You are invited to a Zoom presentation by the New York State Archaeological Association:
New Perspectives on Dutch Trade in New Netherland
A Virtual Symposium
Sponsored by the New York State Archaeological Association
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Here is the recording of the NYSAA Virtual Event: Seminar on New Netherlands:
Meeting Recording:
Abstracts of Papers:
Quamhemesicos (Van Schaick) Island: Archaeological Evidence of European-Mahican Interactions at the Twilight of Dutch Colonialism in New York
Recent archaeological excavations on the east side of Van Schaick Island near Albany, New York have revealed a circa 1650 Dutch trading outpost with contemporaneous, related Mahican occupation on the site. An assemblage of trade items and Mahican artifacts document brief but intense interactions near the end of Dutch colonial rule. This paper reviews the documentation of settlement and associated land transactions on the island while focusing on several important artifacts that shed light into the complex and evolving Dutch-Mahican relationships in the seventeenth century.
Matt Kirk
Hartgen Archaeological Associates
Use-Wear and Modification of White Clay Tobacco Pipes Recovered from 32 Haudenosaunee and European Archaeological Sites in New York, ca. 1640-1710
Research by archaeologists has demonstrated the temporal occurrence of European clay tobacco pipes from the Hudson River west through the Mohawk Valley and beyond. The general distribution of these pipes and associated dates is well understood. Criteria such as use-wear and modification have been largely ignored, yet these measures illustrate distinct differences among assemblages from European and Indigenous sites. Over 2,500 pipe stems were examined from 32 collections at the New York State Museum to compare the prevalence of wear and modification of European-made white clay tobacco pipes within a range of temporal and cultural contexts. These data indicate greater wear and modification within the Haudenosaunee assemblages. Preliminary findings offer a promising new line of evidence for understanding the past through a ubiquitous artifact.
Mike Lucas
New York State Museum
Dutch Artifacts in the NYC Archaeological Repository: The Nan A. Rothschild Repository Center
Some of the seventeenth-century ceramics at the NYC Archaeological Repository; The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center were recovered from artifacts discarded along the edge of the East River before landfill buried the shoreline. Sherds from one assemblage excavated at the 7 Hanover Square site have been linked to vessels made in the Netherlands, at the ceramic production center of Bergen op Zoom, and other locations. The sherds came from many types of vessels and illustrate the range of ceramics that were imported to New Amsterdam by the West India Company.
Richard G. Schafer (Historical Perspectives) and Meta F. Janowitz (AECOM/School of Visual Arts). Presented by Meta F. Janowitz