Archaeological Society of New Jersey
OCTOBER 2023 Meeting
Meeting date: Saturday, October 21, 2023 10am-4pm
Venue: Ramapo College of New Jersey - Pavilion Building, Room 1
(near Poplar Avenue and Sumach Road)
Address: Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ
Parking: Nearby parking lot entrance off of Poplar Avenue
Click here to access a Campus Map (see #19)
Board Meeting
10:00 am – 11:30 am: Executive Board Meeting (All Members Welcome)
11:30 am – 12:00 pm: Break
Public Lecture Series & Museum Visit
12:00 pm: ASNJ President’s Welcome and Announcements
Introduction by Dr. Michael Middleton (Provost/Vice President for Teaching, Learning, & Growth, Ramapo College of New Jersey)
Lecture 1: Edward Lenik (Consulting Archaeologist), “From Indigenous Ancestral Homeland to Ramapo College: The Mountainside Farm Site, Mahwah, New Jersey.”
Lecture 2: Nancy Gibbs (Independent Historian), “Ramapoch Patentee Blandina Kierstede Bayard, Indian Trader and her Legacies”
Lecture 3: Chief Vincent Mann (Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape Nation), Topic TBD
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Break with refreshments.
Lecture 4: Dara McGuinness (Program Coordinator, Gilder Lehrman Institute), Topic: Archaeological Field School at Crow Canyon
Lecture 5: Samantha Sproviero (Ph.D. student in History, Temple University), Topic: Archaeological Field School at James Madison’s Montpelier
Lecture 6: Richard Adamczyk (Archaeologist, Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc.; Curator, Alan E. Carmen Museum of Prehistory), “Dancey’s Corner Site (28-Sa-240): A Case Study in Cultural Resource Management”
4:00 pm: Closing Remarks
4:15 pm: Visit to Mahwah Museum: special exhibit “Ramapough—Legacy and Heritage”
**Lecture schedule subject to further revision. Please stay tuned to our social media accounts for programming updates.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The January 2024 Quarterly Meeting is planned for Saturday, January 20th, 2024 at Monmouth Battlefield State Park.