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Video Presentation - August 17, 2021, Lima. Peru Multimedia presentation by Dr. Joel W. Grossman... more Video Presentation - August 17, 2021, Lima. Peru
Multimedia presentation by Dr. Joel W. Grossman before the VIII Congreso Nacional de Arqueologia del Peru, Ministry of Culture, Lima Peru.
Presentation in Spanish about the antiquity of early gold working and a gold worker's tool kit dating to ca 1,500 cal BC discovered at the highland site of Waywaka associated with early Initial Period pottery, the Muyu Moqo style in Andahuaylas, Apurimac, Peru
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Conference Presentations by Joel W Grossman, Ph.D.
New Jersey State plan, 1980
New Jersey State Plan Archaeology 1980
SAA Newsletter of the History of Anthropology Interest GroupHAIG2.pdf, 2018
Not pertinent
SAA History of Archaeology Interest Group, 2016
A rebuttal of the claim that the discovery of Tepexpan Man was aided by Ground Penetrating Radar ... more A rebuttal of the claim that the discovery of Tepexpan Man was aided by Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and as early as WWII. Resistivity instruments were used but their array was not early GPR. GPR was first used in Europe the 1930’s by a man named Stern who bounced a radar signal through the ice to measure the thickness of a glacier.
Book: Look to the Earth: The Archaeology of the Civil War., 1994
Brief on-line Department of Interior article of the five-year investigation of Civil War-era mili... more Brief on-line Department of Interior article of the five-year investigation of Civil War-era military and industrial operations at West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York
CONTRIBUTIONS IN NEW WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 15, 2020
A UNESCO-OAS and Andres Bello Fund supported study of geophysical remote sensing in coastal and h... more A UNESCO-OAS and Andres Bello Fund supported study of geophysical remote sensing in coastal and highland Peru
This paper reports programmatic recommendations, an advanced seminar series in archaeology, and f... more This paper reports programmatic recommendations, an advanced seminar series in archaeology, and field tests in geophysics undertaken during a consultancy with the Peruvian National Institute of Culture (INC) in October 1982. The invited international program focused on the investigation of twelve historic, Inca, and pre-Inca sites throughout the coast and highlands. Funding was provided by the OAS, UNESCO, and the Andres Bello fund. This is the first formal presentation of this effort. The Sendero Luminoso war prevented future investigations under this initiative. The collaborative international effort had three major components: 1) a three-week seminar series on applied technology in archaeology for the archaeological and preservation staff of the INC in Lima, Cusco, and Ayacucho, 2) investigations at twelve INC project sites to recommend appropriate applied technology strategies in support of excavation and stabilization efforts, and 3) resistivity and soil chemistry tests at each site to establish the utility of a variety of site-specific remote sensing strategies (e.g. resistivity, magnetics, or ground penetrating radar(GPR)) to provide enhanced definition of archaeological boundaries and internal site structure. Among the underlying strategic goals of the collaborative testing program was the development of environmental indicators, or proxies, based on correlation of the levels of a number of chemical compounds, relative to recorded resistivity levels to project the utility of GPR and resistivity at different sites (the higher the resistivity the deeper the radar penetration). Once defined, future teams could use simple and inexpensive soil chemistry tests, without the need for expensive electrical equipment, to project the utility and penetration of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and resistivity at a variety of coastal and highland Inca, Pre-Inca and Colonial sites.
The rescue excavation of an endangered prehistoric site in the Hudson Highlands led to the discov... more The rescue excavation of an endangered prehistoric site in the Hudson Highlands led to the discovery of a 4400-year-old sequence of prehistoric cultures spanning from the late Archaic to the Late Woodland periods. The site, designated the Haul Road site, was discovered, buried, and protected from later impacts by a layer of Civil War-era deposits. These deposits were, in turn, overlain by a ca 2.
NY State Museum Bulletin 499, 2003
This chapter analyzes the environmental implications of seventeenth-century ethnobotanical data f... more This chapter analyzes the environmental implications of seventeenth-century ethnobotanical data from the initial shoreline block of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in Lower Manhattan. In addition to the structural remains of the colony's early inhabitants, the excavation yielded a well-preserved sequence of colonial plant remains spanning the periods of Dutch and early English rule. This analysis of the archaeological chronology and plants: (1) provides new understand-ings of the continuity and shifts in the relative prevalence of European and indigenous plants between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries; (2) presents new archaeological insights about the introduction and nature of early Dutch cultigens in New Amsterdam; (3) suggests that many of the archaeologically recovered early-seventeenth-century plants may have been maintained or collected as foods, dyes, or medicines, from both European and Native American sources; and finally (4) building from new research in Dutch botanical history, suggests mechanisms and institutionalized protocols in the exchange of medicinal plant knowledge between Native American herbalists and Dutch botanists in the seventeenth century.
Federal Archaeology
"Standing in the cold, numbing rain, I was surrounded by a sea of brick rubble [and] rusting car ... more "Standing in the cold, numbing rain, I was surrounded by a sea of brick rubble [and] rusting car bodies. It was a challenging place to do archeology. The site was both foreboding as a focus of study and contaminated with cadmium." My first impressions were not good. What would emerge three years later as a major Civil War-era discovery began as a somewhat somber visit to a heavily overgrown, debris-covered shoreline of the Hudson River. Standing in the cold, numbing rain, I was surrounded by a sea of brick rubble from collapsed 19th century buildings and by the more modern junk of rusting car bodies. It was a challenging place to do archeology. The site was both foreboding as a focus of study and contaminated with cadmium.
All other uses, reproduction and distribution, including without limitation commercial reprints, ... more All other uses, reproduction and distribution, including without limitation commercial reprints, selling or licensing copies or access, or posting on open internet sites are prohibited. For exceptions, permission may be sought for such use through Elsevier's permissions site at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissionusematerial Grossman Joel W, TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS. In: Encyclopedia of Archaeology, ed. by Deborah M. Pearsall. © 2008, Academic Press, New York. bring out the contingencies of decision making. Such studies find local-level responses and negotiations that come with asymmetrical interrelations. With globalization , similar forces are influencing the implementation of conservation, preservation, and presentation of the archaeological past. With local responses and decisions varying greatly, the intersection of archaeology and tourism requires sustained exploration and research.
Este artículo presenta recomendaciones programáticas, una serie de seminarios avanzados en arqueo... more Este artículo presenta recomendaciones programáticas, una serie de seminarios avanzados en arqueología y pruebas de campo en geofísica realizadas durante una consulta con el Instituto Nacional de Cultura (INC) del Perú en octubre de 1982. El programa internacional invitado se centró en la investigación de doce monumentos históricos en estudio, incas y yacimientos preinca a lo largo de la costa y sierra. La financiación fue proporcionada por la OEA, la UNESCO y el fondo Andrés Bello. Esta es la primera presentación formal de este esfuerzo. La guerra de Sendero Luminoso impidió futuras investigaciones bajo esta iniciativa. El esfuerzo colaborativo internacional tuvo tres componentes principales: 1) una serie de seminarios de tres semanas sobre tecnología aplicada en arqueología para el personal de arqueología y preservación del INC en Lima, Cusco y Ayacucho, 2) investigaciones en doce yacimientos del proyecto INC para recomendar estrategias de tecnología aplicada en apoyo a los esfuerzos de excavación y estabilización, y 3) pruebas de resistividad y química del suelo en cada yacimiento para establecer la utilidad de una variedad de estrategias de detección remota específicas del yacimiento (por ejemplo, resistividad, magnetismo o radar de penetración de tierra (GPR)) para proporcionar una definición mejorada de los límites arqueológicos y la estructura interna del yacimiento. Entre los objetivos estratégicos subyacentes del programa de pruebas colaborativas estaba el desarrollo de indicadores ambientales, o proxy, basados en la correlación de los niveles de varios compuestos químicos, en relación con los niveles de resistividad registrados para proyectar la utilidad de GPR y resistividad en diferentes yacimientos (cuanto mayor sea la resistividad, más profunda será la penetración del radar). Una vez definidos, los equipos futuros podrían usar pruebas de química del suelo simples y económicas, sin la necesidad de equipos eléctricos costosos, para proyectar la utilidad y penetración del radar de penetración terrestre (GPR) y la resistividad en una variedad de zonas costeras y montañosas Inca, Pre-Inca y yacimientos coloniales. PALABRAS CLAVE: Resistividad, Radar de penetración terrestre (GPR), Magnetómetro, Inca, Colonial, química del suelo.
Video Presentation - August 17, 2021, Lima. Peru Multimedia presentation by Dr. Joel W. Grossman... more Video Presentation - August 17, 2021, Lima. Peru
Multimedia presentation by Dr. Joel W. Grossman before the VIII Congreso Nacional de Arqueologia del Peru, Ministry of Culture, Lima Peru.
Presentation in Spanish about the antiquity of early gold working and a gold worker's tool kit dating to ca 1,500 cal BC discovered at the highland site of Waywaka associated with early Initial Period pottery, the Muyu Moqo style in Andahuaylas, Apurimac, Peru
42 views
New Jersey State plan, 1980
New Jersey State Plan Archaeology 1980
SAA Newsletter of the History of Anthropology Interest GroupHAIG2.pdf, 2018
Not pertinent
SAA History of Archaeology Interest Group, 2016
A rebuttal of the claim that the discovery of Tepexpan Man was aided by Ground Penetrating Radar ... more A rebuttal of the claim that the discovery of Tepexpan Man was aided by Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and as early as WWII. Resistivity instruments were used but their array was not early GPR. GPR was first used in Europe the 1930’s by a man named Stern who bounced a radar signal through the ice to measure the thickness of a glacier.
Book: Look to the Earth: The Archaeology of the Civil War., 1994
Brief on-line Department of Interior article of the five-year investigation of Civil War-era mili... more Brief on-line Department of Interior article of the five-year investigation of Civil War-era military and industrial operations at West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York
CONTRIBUTIONS IN NEW WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 15, 2020
A UNESCO-OAS and Andres Bello Fund supported study of geophysical remote sensing in coastal and h... more A UNESCO-OAS and Andres Bello Fund supported study of geophysical remote sensing in coastal and highland Peru
This paper reports programmatic recommendations, an advanced seminar series in archaeology, and f... more This paper reports programmatic recommendations, an advanced seminar series in archaeology, and field tests in geophysics undertaken during a consultancy with the Peruvian National Institute of Culture (INC) in October 1982. The invited international program focused on the investigation of twelve historic, Inca, and pre-Inca sites throughout the coast and highlands. Funding was provided by the OAS, UNESCO, and the Andres Bello fund. This is the first formal presentation of this effort. The Sendero Luminoso war prevented future investigations under this initiative. The collaborative international effort had three major components: 1) a three-week seminar series on applied technology in archaeology for the archaeological and preservation staff of the INC in Lima, Cusco, and Ayacucho, 2) investigations at twelve INC project sites to recommend appropriate applied technology strategies in support of excavation and stabilization efforts, and 3) resistivity and soil chemistry tests at each site to establish the utility of a variety of site-specific remote sensing strategies (e.g. resistivity, magnetics, or ground penetrating radar(GPR)) to provide enhanced definition of archaeological boundaries and internal site structure. Among the underlying strategic goals of the collaborative testing program was the development of environmental indicators, or proxies, based on correlation of the levels of a number of chemical compounds, relative to recorded resistivity levels to project the utility of GPR and resistivity at different sites (the higher the resistivity the deeper the radar penetration). Once defined, future teams could use simple and inexpensive soil chemistry tests, without the need for expensive electrical equipment, to project the utility and penetration of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and resistivity at a variety of coastal and highland Inca, Pre-Inca and Colonial sites.
The rescue excavation of an endangered prehistoric site in the Hudson Highlands led to the discov... more The rescue excavation of an endangered prehistoric site in the Hudson Highlands led to the discovery of a 4400-year-old sequence of prehistoric cultures spanning from the late Archaic to the Late Woodland periods. The site, designated the Haul Road site, was discovered, buried, and protected from later impacts by a layer of Civil War-era deposits. These deposits were, in turn, overlain by a ca 2.
NY State Museum Bulletin 499, 2003
This chapter analyzes the environmental implications of seventeenth-century ethnobotanical data f... more This chapter analyzes the environmental implications of seventeenth-century ethnobotanical data from the initial shoreline block of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in Lower Manhattan. In addition to the structural remains of the colony's early inhabitants, the excavation yielded a well-preserved sequence of colonial plant remains spanning the periods of Dutch and early English rule. This analysis of the archaeological chronology and plants: (1) provides new understand-ings of the continuity and shifts in the relative prevalence of European and indigenous plants between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries; (2) presents new archaeological insights about the introduction and nature of early Dutch cultigens in New Amsterdam; (3) suggests that many of the archaeologically recovered early-seventeenth-century plants may have been maintained or collected as foods, dyes, or medicines, from both European and Native American sources; and finally (4) building from new research in Dutch botanical history, suggests mechanisms and institutionalized protocols in the exchange of medicinal plant knowledge between Native American herbalists and Dutch botanists in the seventeenth century.
Federal Archaeology
"Standing in the cold, numbing rain, I was surrounded by a sea of brick rubble [and] rusting car ... more "Standing in the cold, numbing rain, I was surrounded by a sea of brick rubble [and] rusting car bodies. It was a challenging place to do archeology. The site was both foreboding as a focus of study and contaminated with cadmium." My first impressions were not good. What would emerge three years later as a major Civil War-era discovery began as a somewhat somber visit to a heavily overgrown, debris-covered shoreline of the Hudson River. Standing in the cold, numbing rain, I was surrounded by a sea of brick rubble from collapsed 19th century buildings and by the more modern junk of rusting car bodies. It was a challenging place to do archeology. The site was both foreboding as a focus of study and contaminated with cadmium.
All other uses, reproduction and distribution, including without limitation commercial reprints, ... more All other uses, reproduction and distribution, including without limitation commercial reprints, selling or licensing copies or access, or posting on open internet sites are prohibited. For exceptions, permission may be sought for such use through Elsevier's permissions site at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissionusematerial Grossman Joel W, TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS. In: Encyclopedia of Archaeology, ed. by Deborah M. Pearsall. © 2008, Academic Press, New York. bring out the contingencies of decision making. Such studies find local-level responses and negotiations that come with asymmetrical interrelations. With globalization , similar forces are influencing the implementation of conservation, preservation, and presentation of the archaeological past. With local responses and decisions varying greatly, the intersection of archaeology and tourism requires sustained exploration and research.
Este artículo presenta recomendaciones programáticas, una serie de seminarios avanzados en arqueo... more Este artículo presenta recomendaciones programáticas, una serie de seminarios avanzados en arqueología y pruebas de campo en geofísica realizadas durante una consulta con el Instituto Nacional de Cultura (INC) del Perú en octubre de 1982. El programa internacional invitado se centró en la investigación de doce monumentos históricos en estudio, incas y yacimientos preinca a lo largo de la costa y sierra. La financiación fue proporcionada por la OEA, la UNESCO y el fondo Andrés Bello. Esta es la primera presentación formal de este esfuerzo. La guerra de Sendero Luminoso impidió futuras investigaciones bajo esta iniciativa. El esfuerzo colaborativo internacional tuvo tres componentes principales: 1) una serie de seminarios de tres semanas sobre tecnología aplicada en arqueología para el personal de arqueología y preservación del INC en Lima, Cusco y Ayacucho, 2) investigaciones en doce yacimientos del proyecto INC para recomendar estrategias de tecnología aplicada en apoyo a los esfuerzos de excavación y estabilización, y 3) pruebas de resistividad y química del suelo en cada yacimiento para establecer la utilidad de una variedad de estrategias de detección remota específicas del yacimiento (por ejemplo, resistividad, magnetismo o radar de penetración de tierra (GPR)) para proporcionar una definición mejorada de los límites arqueológicos y la estructura interna del yacimiento. Entre los objetivos estratégicos subyacentes del programa de pruebas colaborativas estaba el desarrollo de indicadores ambientales, o proxy, basados en la correlación de los niveles de varios compuestos químicos, en relación con los niveles de resistividad registrados para proyectar la utilidad de GPR y resistividad en diferentes yacimientos (cuanto mayor sea la resistividad, más profunda será la penetración del radar). Una vez definidos, los equipos futuros podrían usar pruebas de química del suelo simples y económicas, sin la necesidad de equipos eléctricos costosos, para proyectar la utilidad y penetración del radar de penetración terrestre (GPR) y la resistividad en una variedad de zonas costeras y montañosas Inca, Pre-Inca y yacimientos coloniales. PALABRAS CLAVE: Resistividad, Radar de penetración terrestre (GPR), Magnetómetro, Inca, Colonial, química del suelo.
Abstract : The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has had the authority to award multiyear cont... more Abstract : The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has had the authority to award multiyear contracts-- continuing contracts--without having received appropriations to cover the full contract amount. In 2006, Congress limited the Corps' use of such contracts by prohibiting obligations made in advance of appropriations. In response, the Corps developed a new clause that stopped work once funding for a fiscal year was expended. GAO was mandated to examine (1) the accuracy of the Corps' fiscal years 2007 and 2008 quarterly reports to Congress about continuing contracts that included the new clause, (2) the extent to which the Corps' use of continuing contacts with the new clause may have affected its execution of the Civil Works program during this time, and (3) the extent to which the Corps followed legal procedures in implementing the new clause. To conduct this work, GAO reviewed Corps documents, such as its quarterly reports and bid protests, federal procurement laws, and interviewed officials. GAO recommends that the Corps (1) establish adequate internal controls to track continuing contracts and (2) suspend its use of the new clause until it has been published in the Federal Register. The agency disagreed with the latter recommendation because it anticipates publication within 60 days. GAO continues to believe the recommendation is appropriate because use of the clause would be in violation of the OFPP Act.
Raw data for the Dutch West India Company block plant macrofossil dataset obtained from the Neoto... more Raw data for the Dutch West India Company block plant macrofossil dataset obtained from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database.
is a semi-annual journal dealing with various aspects of North and South American archaeology, an... more is a semi-annual journal dealing with various aspects of North and South American archaeology, anthropology and ethnohistory. Its main aim is to publish results of archaeological excavations and surveys conducted in various parts of the New World as well as to present papers devoted to the studies of collections of archaeological artefacts discovered in either American continent. Moreover, the journal addresses such subjects as theory, methodology and practice in New World archaeology.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 1980
Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2008
This study reports on the establishment of viable dates for several major cultural components at ... more This study reports on the establishment of viable dates for several major cultural components at the Little Wood Creek site on the upper Hudson in Fort Edward, New York. The original excavation in the mid-1980s (Grossman et al. 1990) resulted in the identification of two major periods of occupation, a deeply buried Transitional period sequence of living floors, and closer to the surface, and separated by circa five feet of sterile alluvium, a series of Late Woodland period pits and features. Both are overlain by the discovery of the southern bastion of Revolutionary Warera Fort Edward. Ambiguities in the original bulk radiocarbon dating of the site left it in chronological limbo with widely divergent determinations for both prehistoric occupation periods. New AMS dates from 10 samples, four Transitional period and six Late Woodland period assays, both refined the absolute chronology of the site complex and clarified several major issues in the cultural and environmental history of the region. Together, these two sets of dates, combined with recent high resolution environmental sequences, provide sufficient resolution to correlate the newly defined periods of occupation with major events in the pollen and climate record of eastern New York State.
Reports on the use of geophysical testing with resistivity to test the feasibility of archaeologi... more Reports on the use of geophysical testing with resistivity to test the feasibility of archaeological remote sensing at twelve Colonia, Inca and Pre-Inca sites in Coastal and highland Peru undertaken with the support of UNESCO, the OAS and the Peruvian Andres Bello Fund.