20th Annual Highlands Archaeological and Historical Conference Program

20TH ANNUAL

HIGHLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL CONFERENCE

PRESENTED BY

THE NORTH JERSEY HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

THE INC. ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER, NYSAA

THE FRIENDS OF STERLING FOREST

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015

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LAUTENBERG VISITOR CENTER, STERLING FOREST STATE PARK

115 OLD FORGE ROAD, TUXEDO, NEW YORK

MORNING PROGRAM: 10AM TO NOON AT THE VISITOR CENTER

Flintknapping Demonstration by Gary Sipila, Inc.OCC,NYSAA

Native American History of Sterling Forest: Talk and Walk to nearby rockshelter by Edward J.Lenik, R.P.A.

AFTERNOON PROGRAM: 1:00 TO 4:00 AT THE VISITOR CENTER

Lower level:  Carol Siri Johnson, PH.D., NJHHS, presiding

1:00 PM to 1:25 PM: “An Unusual Paleoamerican Cache Find in Eastern Pennsylvania: Experiments and Insights into Fluted Point Manufacture.” Jack Cresson, Society of Experimental Archaeology and Primitive Technology; A.S.N.J.

1:25PM to 1:50PM: “Lenape Spiritual Use of Fossils” Richard Sears Walling, Independent Scholar.

1:50PM to 2:15PM:  “A Long Time Coming. The Historical Archaeology of the Mixed Heritage Native and African American Community of Setauket, New York.” Christopher Matthews, Ph.D,. Professor of Anthropology, Montclair State University.

2:15PM TO 2:30PM: Coffee Break

2:55PM to 3:20PM:  “The Wiechquaeskeck (S.W. Connecticut, Westchester and Manhattan Island) and the Origins of the Raritan and the Munsee Indians of New Jersey: The Raritan Valley Buffer Zone as a Refuge Area for Some Native Americans During the 17^th Century.”  Marshall Becker, Ph.D., West Chester University.

2:55PM to 3:20PM: “Sara Roelofse, A Dutch-American Woman of Her Times”  Meta Janowitz, Ph.D., AECOM, Burlington, NJ and School of Visual arts, NYC.

3:20PM to 3:45PM:  “Blandina Bayard, Indian Trader, and Her Legacies”  Nancy L. Gibbs, NJHHS, Independent Scholar.

1:00 to 4:00 Book Room.  

Program Chair: Edward J. Lenik, R.P.A., Inc.OCC,NYSAA, A.S.N.J. & NJHHS. 

Meeting facilities courtesy of Sterling Forest State Park, Jeff Hutchison, Park Manager