Spring 2023 Conference

For the first time we met in Pennsylvania, in Matamoras, just across the Delaware River from Port Jervis New York, from April 28th to April 30th.

View the program at NEARA 2023 Spring Conference Program.

View the publicly viewable videos on the NEARA Spring Conference 2023 playlist.

Presentations

The videos are on our new YouTube channel. Videos that are only available for NEARA members are behind a login at SiteDB.org.

Friday Evening

• Artifact or Artifiction? The People and Events in Pike County's Historical and at Times Hysterical Narrative, Lori Strelecki
• A Stone Sites Field Trip Across Northern New Jersey, Martin Rapp
• Fish Weirs of the Juniata River, Matt Adams
  (This is only available for NEARA members by logging in at SiteDB.org)
• Fishing for Evidence: V-Shaped Stone Fish Weirs in Pennsylvania, Melanie Mayhew
  (This is only available for NEARA members by logging in at SiteDB.org)

Saturday Morning

• T'poos Gawi-echtun (To Make it Right): Reexamining Local Native American Histories, Evan Pritchard
• Farmer Field Clearing Piles or CSL Structures?, Steve DiMarzo
• Reflections on the Oley Hills Site: A Sixty Year Journey of Discovery, Norm Muller
• Tribute to Norman Muller

Saturday Afternoon

• Gifford Pinchot and Pike Counties Roots in the American Conservation Movement, Ken Sandri
• Integrating Ceremonial Stone Landscapes as Desktop Planetarium Models, Dave Gutkowski
• The Grand Tour: Native American Ritual Stone Architecture Across the United States, Dan Pezzoni
• Combining LiDAR's Above Ground Features with GPR's Below Ground Anomalies, Tom Elmore & Doria Kutrubes
• Updates on NEARA's OSL Research Project, Vance Tiede
  (This is only available for NEARA members by logging in at SiteDB.org)
• Updates on NEARA's Collaboration with the Pennsylvania SHPO, Jim Wilson

Saturday Evening Keynote

• Stone Mysteries of the Shawangunk Mountains, Glenn Kreisberg

Sunday Morning, Replacing the Field Trips

• Previous Research at Newport Tower, Patrick Shekleton
• The Towne Pound: Forgotten Ways of Life, Matt Adams
  (This is only available for NEARA members by logging in at SiteDB.org)
• Geology of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes, Phil Getty
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• Lithic Studies - Native Americans in South Central New England, Joe Iarmartino

Annual General Meeting

We held the annual NEARA general meeting on Saturday morning. There were no election results to report. Many of the chapter coordinators gave brief reports about past activities and future field trips.

Field Trips

Three field trips were held on Friday, but the two scheduled for Sunday were rained out, replaced by four remarkably well prepared impromptu presentations.

• Log Tavern Road Accessible Stone Landscapes Tour, Jim Palmer
• Highpoint State Park, Martin Rapp
• Turtle Rock Ridge, Ned Doucet, Glenn Kreisberg

• Pyramid Mountain, Matt Adams
• Council Rock Mountain, Dave Gutkowski

Photos

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