13,000 Years of Indigenous Life in the Cayuga Lake Region: An Archaeological Perspective

 This program will review archaeological evidence for over thirteen thousand years of indigenous occupation of the Cayuga Lake drainage system, ranging from Paleoindian hunter-gatherers at the end of the last Ice Age to the historically-known Cayuga Nation.  The presentation will be illustrated with maps, images of artifacts and site plans, and pictures of archaeologists at work. 

Kurt A. Jordan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Cornell University, where he is currently the director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS).  He has conducted field, museum, and archival research on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) archaeology, history, and place names in collaboration with members of the Seneca and Cayuga Nations since 1995.  His book The Seneca Restoration, 1715-1754 was published by the University of Florida in 2008.