Sunday, May 18, 2008
1:00 to 3:30 PM
FREE w/ ADMISSION
Twenty-eighth Annual Symposium sponsored by the Professional Archaeologists of New York City (PANYC) in association with The Museum of the City of New York.
An afternoon of slides and discussion of archaeology’s contribution to understanding our city.
Colonial Waterfront Development in and around Battery Park: Excavations for the New South
Ferry Subway Terminal.
Program:
“A Battery at the Point of Rocks by White Hall”: Early military fortifications in lower Manhattan
Diane Dallal, Director of Archaeology, AKRF, Inc.
Dendrochronology and the South Ferry Terminal Project: Colonial construction dates, patterns of commerce, and human behavior
William E. Wright, Doherty Associate Research Scientist, Tree Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Documentation, disassembly and conservation of the Battery Wall: A challenge for a new vision
Joan C. Berkowitz, Director of Conservation, Superstructures Engineers &
Architects
New York City in the Fill: Making sense of all those artifacts
Meta F. Janowitz, Project Lab Director, URS Corporation
Deconstructing South Ferry: Archaeological discoveries enable reconstruction of the past
Linda Stone, RPA, Consulting archaeologist
