Cragsmoor Consultants assists business, industry and government agencies in meeting requirements under local, state and Federal laws and procedures for the identification, assessment and protection of archaeological sites.
Our facilities are located in Cragsmoor, Ulster
County, New York and New York City. Our staff has more than 20 years
experience in the
formulation of agency requirements and in the planning and conduct of all phases of archaeological and historical
investigations.
Click on this trowel button for a
description of some of our
projects.
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Several of our projects have been aimed at exploring historical and archaeological aspects of landscape change in the Hudson River Valley. This research has been summarized in a series of published articles and papers presented at meetings of several professional societies. Three of these can be viewed by clicking on the first three trowels below.
LANDSCAPE,
LANDUSE AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF SPACE IN THE HUDSON RIVER
VALLEY: THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Paper Presented
at
the New York
Academy of
Sciences December 9, 1996.
TOWARDS
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE HUDSON RIVER ICE HARVESTING INDUSTRY.
Article Published in Northeast
Historical Archaeology Vol 29, 2000 SLIP-SLIDIN'
AWAY: ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HUDSON
RIVER ICE INDUSTRY.
Paper Presented at the 1998
Annual
Meeting of the Council on
Northeast Historical Archaeology
One of
our research projects has focused on a portion of the Hudson River
located approximately
15 miles south of Albany, N.Y. Click on this button to take a
(virtual) time traveling sailing trip on
this portion of the River as it was in 1847.
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Cragsmoor Consultants has been involved in efforts to
protect the Shawangunk Ridge Area of Ulster County, an irreplaceable
scenic and historical
resource. The two papers here provide further information on the
natural
and cultural history and prehistory of the Shawangunks.
THE STORY
OF THE SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS REGIONPROTECTING CULTURAL
RESOURCES AT SAM’S POINT PRESERVE__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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