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
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.