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 papers presented at meetings of several professional societies. Two of these can be viewed by clicking on the first two trowels below.
LANDSCAPE, LANDUSE AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF SPACE IN THE
HUDSON RIVER
VALLEY: THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Presented
at the New York
Academy of Sciences December 9, 1996.
SLIP-SLIDIN' AWAY: ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE RECONSTRUCTION
OF THE HUDSON RIVER ICE INDUSTRY.
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 REGION
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