Archaeology

Archaeology is the study of humanity's past through its material remains. Archaeologists at UAlbany work on projects spanning the globe. From Belize and Yucatan to the former Eastern Woodlands of New York State to the circumpolar region of Europe and North America to Bronze Age Cyprus, the following research projects illustrate the opportunities at UAlbany to delve into classical Old World scholarship, cutting edge postmodern deconstructionism, cognitive and behavioral inference based on material remains, and reconstruction of ceremonial and subsistence patterns of pre-Columbians. Click on project titles to learn more.

Belize Postclassic Project
Community analysis of Maya populations that occupied northeastern Belize from the 11th-16th centuries.

Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence
Deciphering women's and men's roles in the formation of the archaeological record to reassess the concept of sexual division of labor.

Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project
Examination of the social and economic dimensions of production and exchange for Mayapán, the largest city of the Postclassic Maya world.

Institute for Cypriot Studies
The Institute of Cypriot Studies features a virtual on-line catalog of the The Belcher Collection of Cypriot Antiquities.

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies
The Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (IMS) is a non-profit educational research institute dedicated to the study and dissemination of knowledge concerning the peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America).

Schoharie Project
Archaeometric study into the origins of tobacco smoking in the Eastern Woodlands of North America thru residue analysis.

Sotira Archaeological Project
Excavations of probable ceremonial complex to search for evidence of earliest (ca. 2230 BC) Bronze Age cult on Cyprus.