Peter E. Siegel
Department of Anthropology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043
Office: (973) 655-3415, Department: (973) 655-4119, E-mail: siegelp@mail.montclair.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. State University of New York, Binghamton
M.A. State University of New York, Binghamton
B.A. University of Delaware, Newark
1978
B.S.
University of Delaware, Newark
1978
Anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology
1992
1982
Entomology and Applied Ecology
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2013-present Chair, Department of Anthropology, Montclair State University (MSU).
2012-present Professor, Department of Anthropology, MSU.
2006-2012
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, MSU.
2003-2006
Principal Archeologist/Senior Project Manager/Senior Associate. John Milner
Associates, Inc. (JMA).
1994-2003
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager/Senior Associate. JMA.
1992-1994
Project Archeologist. JMA.
1985-1992
Research Associate. Centro de Investigaciones Indígenas de Puerto Rico (CIIPR), San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
1981-1983
Field Assistant/Crew Chief (part time). Public Archaeology Facility, State University
of New York, Binghamton.
1979-1981
Field Assistant/Lab Director. Center for American Archaeology, Kampsville, Illinois.
1976
Summer Research Assistant in South American Ethnoarchaeology. Department of
Anthropology, University of Delaware, Newark.
1975
Summer Field Assistant. Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, Eugene.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015Advisory Board Co-Chair. New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Division.
2009-present Advisory Board Member. New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Division.
2013-2014
Search Committee Member. Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, MSU.
2009-2012
Executive Board Member. Archaeological Society of New Jersey.
2006-present Steering Committee Member. Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies, MSU.
2006-2011
Advisory Board Member. Latin American and Latino Studies program, MSU.
2010-2011
Archaeology Peer Review Committee. Fulbright Specialist Program, Institute of
International Education, Department of Scholar and Professional Programs, Council for
International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, DC.
2006
Member. Task Force on Fostering Communications about the Register of Professional
Archaeologists within and across professional organizations.
1992-2006
Project Archeologist/Principal Archeologist/Senior Project Manager/Senior
Associate. JMA. Directed over 80 projects while working for John Milner Associates.
These projects ranged in size and complexity from small surveys to major excavations of
large stratified sites. Geographically, the projects include:
 Caribbean: Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
 South America: eastern Bolivia
 Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware
 Northeast: New York, Maine
2003-2005
1999- present
2007-present
1999
1997-1999
1985-1992
1985
1984-1985
1976
 Southeast: Virginia, South Carolina
 Midwest: Michigan
President. Pennsylvania Archaeological Council.
Register of Professional Archaeologists.
Principal Investigator. Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean. Sponsored
by the National Science Foundation and National Geographic Society.
Principal Investigator. Indian Creek Archaeological Project, St. Paul, Antigua, West
Indies. Sponsored by University of Texas, Dallas.
Principal Investigator. Sediment coring project. Maisabel wetland, Vega Baja, Puerto
Rico. Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the
Heinz Family Foundation for Latin American Archaeology.
Project Director. Maisabel Archaeological Project, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Sponsored
by Centro de Investigaciones Indígenas de Puerto Rico (CIIPR) and National Science
Foundation.
Research Associate. Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological research, Shefariymo Village
(Waiwai and Wapisiana Indians), upper Essequibo River, southern Guyana. Sponsored by
CIIPR.
Project Director. SUNY-Binghamton Lower Chenango Valley Survey. Developed and
applied a probabilistic sampling design for the Lower Chenango Valley, New York.
Research Assistant. Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological research, San Francisco de
Yarinacocha (Shipibo Indians), central Ucayali River, eastern Peru. Sponsored by
University of Delaware.
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTIONAL RECORD
Prehistoric Archaeology (now called Introduction to Archaeology) (ANTH103), 3 credits
Native North Americans (ANTH120), 3 credits
Caribbean Archaeology (ANTH320), 3 credits
Experimental Archaeology (ANTH370), 3 credits
North American Archaeology (ANTH414), 3 credits
Archaeological Field Methods (ANTH470), 6 credits
Independent Research in Anthropology (ANTH480), 3 credits
Internship in Anthropology (ANTH490), 6 credits
Social Anthropology and History (independent study) (ANTH565), 3 credits
Selected Problems: Art History Independent Study (ARHS592), 3 credits
Independent Anthropological Research (ANTH601), 3 credits
Teaching in English: An International Faculty Advancement Program, Tianjin University, Tinajin, China
(July 2013)
LEIDEN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ARCHAEOLOGY INSTRUCTIONAL RECORD
(Fulbright semester, spring 2012/Leiden University fellowship semester, spring 2015)
Indigenous Heritage in the Caribbean (graduate seminar), 5 European credits
Ethnoarchaeology of the Circum-Caribbean and Amazonia (graduate seminar), 5 European credits
Research Tutorial (MA/PhD thesis and post-doc discussion seminar), 5 European credits for students
EXHIBIT EXPERIENCE
2015
Reflections of Holland: A Digital Photo Exhibit of Water in Everyday Dutch Life.
Exhibit in the Rising Tide series of lectures, films, and special events on the Dutch and
their relationship with water. Co-sponsored by the Harry A. Sprague Library and the
College of Science and Mathematics, Montclair State University, Montlair, NJ. Oct/Nov
2015.
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2014
Big House on the Hill: Engaging with Heritage and Community
through Archaeology at the Van Reyper-Bond House. Curated by Peter E. Siegel and
Nancy E. Terhune. Harry A. Sprague Library, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ.
Oct/Nov 2014.
1997-2000
Technical Consultant. El Museo del Barrio, New York. Exhibition on “Taino: PreColumbian Art and Culture From the Caribbean” and their hall entitled “Taíno: Ancient
Voyagers of the Caribbean.” I reviewed and provided wall-panel text and contributed
maps, an illustration of the Taíno cosmos, and photographs for the gallery. Exhibition and
gallery reviews: Cotter, Holland (1997) Out of the Caribbean Past, The Art of a Lost
People. The New York Times. Sunday, November 23, 1997 Art:47. Milanich, Jerald T.
(2001) Taíno Encounters. Archaeology 54(1):67-68.
PUBLICATIONS
Theses
Siegel, Peter E.
1992 Ideology, Power, and Social Complexity in Prehistoric Puerto Rico. PhD dissertation, State
University of New York at Binghamton. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.
1982 A Feature Analysis of a Late Woodland Bluff-Top Encampment Located in the Central
Mississippi Valley. MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at
Binghamton.
Books and Monographs
Siegel, Peter E.
Prospectus submitted Island Historical Ecology: Socionatural Landscapes across the Caribbean Sea.
Sidestone Press, Leiden.
Siegel, Peter E., and Elizabeth Righter (editors)
2011 Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E. (editor)
2005 Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico. University of Alabama
Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E., Robert G. Kingsley, and Tod L. Benedict
2003 Archeological Data Recoveries at the Fahs II and Oberly Island Sites: Structure, Function, and
Context in the Lower Lehigh Valley, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Byways to the Past
Technical Series Report No. 1. Federal Highway Administration and Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation, Harrisburg.
Siegel, Peter E. (editor)
1989 Early Ceramic Population Lifeways and Adaptive Strategies in the Caribbean. BAR International
Series No. 506. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
Articles and Book Chapters
Siegel, Peter E.
In prep Pipeline to the Past: Documenting Heritage for the San Miguel-Cuiabá Natural Gas Project in
Southeastern Bolivia. Latin American Antiquity.
Siegel, Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan,
Jason H. Curtis, and Sushant K. Singh
In review Humanizing the Landscapes of the Lesser Antilles during the Archaic. In The Archaeology of
Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (5000 BC - AD 1500), edited by Basil A. Reid.
University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
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Siegel, Peter E.
In press Archaeology on the Campus: Archaeological Investigations of the Van Reyper-Bond House at
Montclair State University. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey.
Siegel, Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan,
Jason H. Curtis, and Sushant K. Singh
2015 Paleoenvironmental Evidence for First Human Colonization of the Eastern Caribbean.
Quaternary Science Reviews 129: 275–295.
Siegel, Peter E.
2014 Cultural Construction, Interculturality, Multiethnicity, and Survival Strategies among
Amerindians in the ‘Island of Guiana’ with a Brief Introduction from the Upper Amazon. In Antes
de Orellana: Encuentro Internacional de Arqueología Amazónica, edited by Stéphen Rostain, pp.
351-357. Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Quito, Ecuador.
Siegel, Peter E.
2014 Archaeological Heritage Management. In Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology, edited by
Basil A. Reid and R. Grant Gilmore III, pp. 47-51. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Sajo, Alexandra, and Peter E. Siegel
2014 Zemíes (Cemís). In Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology, edited by Basil A. Reid and R.
Grant Gilmore III, p. 355. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Siegel, Peter E., Corinne L. Hofman, Benoît Bérard, Reg Murphy, Jorge Ulloa Hung, Roberto Valcarcel
Rojas, and Cheryl White
2013 Confronting Caribbean Heritage in an Archipelago of Diversity: Politics, Stakeholders, Climate
Change, Natural Disasters, Tourism, and Development. Journal of Field Archaeology 38:376390.
Siegel, Peter E.
2013 Caribbean Archaeology in Historical Perspective. In The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean
Archaeology, edited by William F. Keegan, Corinne L. Hofman, and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos,
pp. 21-46. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Siegel, Peter E.
2011a Intersecting Values in Caribbean Heritage Preservation. In Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean,
edited by Peter E. Siegel and Elizabeth Righter, pp. vii-xi. University of Alabama Press,
Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E.
2011b Puerto Rico. In Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean, edited by Peter E. Siegel and Elizabeth
Righter, pp. 46-57. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E.
2011c Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean. In Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean, edited by Peter E.
Siegel and Elizabeth Righter, pp. 152-162. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E.
2011d Competitive Polities and Territorial Expansion in the Caribbean. In Islands at the Crossroads:
Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean, edited by L. Antonio Curet and Mark W.
Hauser, pp. 193-218. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E.
2010a Crossing the Caribbean Sea and Tracking Intellectual History: A Discussion. Journal of
Caribbean Archaeology, Special Publication 3:156-170.
Siegel, Peter E.
2010b Continuity and Change in the Evolution of Religion and Political Organization on Pre-Columbian
Puerto Rico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29:302-326.
Jones, John G., Claudette A. Casile, Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Deborah M. Pearsall
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2010
Analyse préliminaire de prélèvements sédimentaires en provenance de Marie-Galante. Bilan
Scientifique, pp. 139-141. Service Regional de l’Archéologie, Direction Regionale des Affaires,
Culturelles, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe.
Siegel, Peter E., Christopher T. Espenshade, and David L. McCullough
2009 Mitigation Plus: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Application of Section 106 to Site Ponce 29,
Puerto Rico. SAA Archaeological Record 9(4):24-29.
Siegel, Peter E.
2009 Curating the Past: Caribbean Archaeology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 50(1):209-215.
Siegel, Peter E., Christophe Descantes, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, and Michael D. Glascock
2008 Pre-Columbian Pottery in the West Indies: Compositional Change in Context. In An Exploratory
Study into the Chemical Characterization of Caribbean Ceramics, edited by Christophe
Descantes, Robert J. Speakman, Michael D. Glascock, and Matthew T. Boulanger. Journal of
Caribbean Archaeology, Special Publication 2: 25-44.
Siegel, Peter E.
2008 Contested Places and Places of Contest: The Evolution of Social Power and Ceremonial Space in
Prehistoric Puerto Rico. Reprinted in An Archaeological Perspective on Ritual, Religion, and
Ideology, anthology compiled by Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra, pp. 187-216. Society
for American Archaeology. The SAA Press, Washington, D.C.
Siegel, Peter E.
2007 Dynamic Dualism: A Structural Analysis of Circular Communities. Proceedings of the
International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology 21(2):525-536. University of the West Indies,
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Roosevelt, Anna C., and Peter E. Siegel
2007 Irving Rouse (1913-2006). American Anthropologist 109:235-237.
Siegel, Peter E.
2005 Preface. In Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico, edited by
Peter E. Siegel, pp. xv-xix. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Daniel P. Wagner
2005 Environmental and Cultural Correlates in the West Indies: A View from Puerto Rico. In Ancient
Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico, edited by Peter E. Siegel, pp.
88-121. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E.
2005 Multiple Visions of an Island’s Past and Some Thoughts for Future Directions in Puerto Rican
Prehistory. In Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico, edited by
Peter E. Siegel, pp. 353-363. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Siegel, Peter E.
2004 What Happened After A.D. 600 on Puerto Rico? Corporate Groups, Population Restructuring,
and Post-Saladoid Social Changes. In Late Ceramic Age Societies in the Eastern Caribbean,
edited by André Delpuech and Corinne Hofman, pp. 87-100. Paris Monographs in American
Archaeology No. 14. BAR International Series No. 1273. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Anderson-Córdova, Karen F., Mark R. Barnes, and Peter E. Siegel
2004 Interaction between the Caribbean and Eastern North America in the Colonial Period. In An
Annales Approach to Contact-Era Archaeology, edited by Michael Klein. Journal of Middle
Atlantic Archaeology 20:29-34.
Siegel, Peter E., Robert G. Kingsley, and Tod L. Benedict
2001a Oberly Island: Trend and Tradition in the Lower Lehigh Valley. Pennsylvania Archaeologist
71(2):16-59.
Siegel, Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Daniel P. Wagner
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2001b Culture and Environment in Prehistoric Puerto Rico. Proceedings of the International Congress
for Caribbean Archaeology 18(2):281-290. Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.
Siegel, Peter E., Douglas C. Kellogg, and Robert G. Kingsley
2001c Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Upland Settings: An Analysis of Site Data in a Sample of
Exempted Watersheds: Brandywine Creek Watershed (Watershed H), Chester, Lancaster, and
Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. In Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Upland Settings: An
Analysis of Site Data in a Sample of Exempted Watersheds, pp. 187-240. Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.
Siegel, Peter E.
1999a Contested Places and Places of Contest: The Evolution of Social Power and Ceremonial Space in
Prehistoric Puerto Rico. Latin American Antiquity 10:209-238.
Siegel, Peter E.
1999b Putting the Indian Creek Site Excavation into Context. Museum of Antigua and Barbuda
Historical and Archaeological Newsletter 66:9.
Siegel, Peter E.
1997 Ancestor Worship and Cosmology among the Taínos. In Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture
from the Caribbean, edited by Fatima Bercht, Estrellita Brodsky, John Alan Farmer, and Dicey
Taylor, pp. 106-111. The Monacelli Press and El Museo del Barrio, New York.
Siegel, Peter E.
1996a An Interview with Irving Rouse. Current Anthropology 37:671-689.
Siegel, Peter E.
1996b Ideology and Culture Change in Prehistoric Puerto Rico: A View from the Community. Journal
of Field Archaeology 23:313-333.
Siegel, Peter E.
1995 The Archaeology of Community Organization in the Tropical Lowlands: A Case Study from
Puerto Rico. In Archaeology in the American Tropics: Current Analytical Methods and
Applications, edited by Peter W. Stahl, pp. 42-65. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Siegel, Peter E., and Kenneth P. Severin
1993 The First Documented Prehistoric Gold-Copper Alloy Artefact from the West Indies. Journal of
Archaeological Science 20:67-79.
Siegel, Peter E.
1993 Saladoid Survival Strategies: Evidence from Site Locations. Proceedings of the International
Congress for Caribbean Archaeology 14:315-337. Barbados.
Siegel, Peter E.
1991a Political Evolution in the Caribbean. Proceedings of the International Congress for Caribbean
Archaeology 13(1):232-250. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.
Siegel, Peter E.
1991b On the Antillean Connection for the Introduction of Cultigens into Eastern North America.
Current Anthropology 32:332-334.
Siegel, Peter E.
1991c Occupational History of the Maisabel Site: A Progress Report. Special Publication No. 7, "Topics
in Caribbean Anthropology," edited by James Cusick and Kathleen Barnes. Florida Journal of
Anthropology 16:65-79.
Siegel, Peter E.
1991d Migration Research in Saladoid Archaeology: A Review. The Florida Anthropologist 44(1):7991.
Siegel, Peter E., and Peter G. Roe
1991 The Maisabel Archaeological Project: A Long Term Multi-Disciplinary Investigation.
Proceedings of the International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology 12:109-115. Martinique.
Siegel, Peter E., and David J. Bernstein
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1991
Sampling for Site Structure and Spatial Organization in the Saladoid: A Case Study. Proceedings
of the International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology 12:87-107. Martinique.
Siegel, Peter E.
1990a Proyecto arqueológico de Maisabel. Patrimonio: Boletín de la Oficina Estatal de Preservación
Histórica 1(7):7-10.
Siegel, Peter E.
1990b Ethnoarchaeological Study of a Waiwai Village in the Tropical Forest of Southern Guyana.
Proceedings of the International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology 11:400-417. San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Siegel, Peter E.
1990c Demographic and Architectural Retrodiction: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study in the South
American Tropical Lowlands. Latin American Antiquity 1:319-346.
Siegel, Peter E.
1989 Site Structure, Demography, and Social Complexity in the Early Ceramic Age of the Caribbean.
In Early Ceramic Population Lifeways and Adaptive Strategies in the Caribbean, edited by Peter
E. Siegel, pp. 193-245. BAR International Series No. 506. British Archaeological Reports,
Oxford.
Siegel, Peter E.
1986a The Maisabel Project Excavation. Arqueología 2(1):20-21.
Siegel, Peter E.
1986b More on Functional Variability within an Assemblage of Endscrapers: A Reply to Hayden and
Bamforth. Lithic Technology 15:71-78.
Siegel, Peter E., and Peter G. Roe
1986 Shipibo Archaeo-Ethnography: Site Formation Processes and Archaeological Interpretation.
World Archaeology 18:96-115.
Siegel, Peter E.
1985 Edge Angle as a Functional Indicator: A Test. Lithic Technology 14:90-94.
Siegel, Peter E.
1984 Functional Variability within an Assemblage of Endscrapers. Lithic Technology 13:35-51.
Roe, Peter G., and Peter E. Siegel
1982 The Life History of a Shipibo Compound: Ethnoarchaeology in the Peruvian Montaña. Journal of
Archaeology and Anthropology 5(2):94-118.
Siegel, Peter E.
1981 A Functional Analysis of an Assemblage of Inupiat Eskimo End Scrapers. In The 1981
Excavations at the Utquiagvik Archaeological Site, Barrow, Alaska, edited by Albert A. Dekin,
Jr., Chapter 13, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton,
Public Archaeology Facility. Submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park
Service, 540 West 5th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99501.
Book Reviews
Siegel, Peter E.
2013 Review of Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the PreColumbian Settlement of the Caribbean, edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Ann H. Ross
(University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2010). Journal of Field Archaeology 38:92-96.
2012 Review of Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica, edited by
James A. Delle, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong (University of Alabama Press,
Tuscaloosa, 2011). Journal of Anthropological Research 68:291-293.
2008 Review of Taíno Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King by William F.
Keegan (University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2007). Journal of Island & Coastal
Archaeology 3:291-293.
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Review of The Tutu Archaeological Village Site: A Multidisciplinary Case Study in Human
Adaptation, edited by Elizabeth Righter (Routledge, London, 2002). Latin American Antiquity
17:620-623.
Review of Excavations at the Indian Creek Site, Antigua, West Indies by Irving Rouse and Birgit
Faber Morse (Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 82, 1999). Journal of
Anthropological Research 56:418-420.
Review of The Indigenous People of the Caribbean, edited by Samuel M. Wilson (University
Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1997). Latin American Antiquity 9:180-182.
Review of The Archaeology of Pacific Nicaragua, by Frederick W. Lange, Payson D. Sheets,
Anibal Martinez, and Suzanne Abel-Vidor (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque). The
Latin American Anthropology Review (Spring 1993) 5(1):45-46.
Published Interviews
Toner, Mike
2008 Ghosts of the Taíno. Archaeology (published by the Archaeological Institute of America). 61
(2):50-53.
2007 Before and After Columbus. American Archaeology (published by The Archaeological
Conservancy). 11(2):31-36.
Cultural Resources Management Reports
New Jersey
2006
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, John Milner Associates (JMA).
Siegel, PE, TL Benedict, AB Bartlett, MA Tobias, and WJ Chadwick
Addendum Report, Archeological Investigations for the New Jersey Army National Guard,
Phase IB Archeological Surveys: Picatinny Army Aviation Support Facility #2 and the Fort
Dix, Lawrenceville, and Vineland Armories. Submitted to Office of Environmental
Compliance, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Trenton and the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, St. Louis District. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2005
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Chadwick, WJ, DC McVarish, and PE Siegel
An Archeological Sensitivity Assessment and Historic Architectural Reconnaissance Survey
of the Sherwin-Williams Gibbsboro, New Jersey Paint Works Site. US EPA Region 2,
National Priorities Listing Hazardous Waste Site. Submitted to Weston Solutions, Inc.,
Edison, New Jersey. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2005
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and GE Baldwin
Addendum Report, Archeological Investigations for the New Jersey Army National Guard,
Phase IB Archeological Surveys: West Orange Armory and Sea Girt National Guard Training
Center. Submitted to Office of Environmental Compliance, Department of Military and
Veterans Affairs, Trenton and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2004
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, DC McVarish, and MA Tobias
Archeological Investigations for the New Jersey Army National Guard, Phase I
Archeological Surveys: Sea Girt and Morristown Armories, Phase IA Sensitivity
Assessments: Fort Dix, Picatinny, Lawrenceville, Vineland, and West Orange Installations.
Submitted to Office of Environmental Compliance, Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs, Trenton and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. John Milner
Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2004
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
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1996
McVarish, DC, PE Siegel, and R Meyer
Penns Neck Area EIS, Cultural Resources Effects Document. Submitted to DMJM+HARRIS,
Iselin, New Jersey and New Jersey Department of Transportation, Trenton. John Milner
Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and MA Tobias
Phase I Archeological Survey, Penns Neck Area EIS, West Windsor and Princeton
Townships, Mercer County, and Plainsboro Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
Submitted to DMJM+HARRIS, Iselin, New Jersey and New Jersey Department of
Transportation, Trenton. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, and PE Siegel
Cultural Resources Screening: Proposed Commercial Development, Raritan Road and
Westfield Avenue, Township of Clark, Union County, New Jersey. Submitted to Site
Development, Inc. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, and PE Siegel
Cultural Resources Screening: Proposed Commercial Development, Springfield and Snyder
Avenues, Township of Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey. Submitted to Site
Development, Inc. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, and PE Siegel
Cultural Resources Screening: Proposed Commercial Development, New Jersey State
Highway 31 and West Delawaare Avenue, Borough of Pennington, Mercer County, New
Jersey. Submitted to Site Development, Inc. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, and PE Siegel
Addendum, Phase I Archeological Survey and Architectural Resources Investigation, Route
U.S. 206-Waterloo Road Intersection Improvements, Byram Township, Sussex County, New
Jersey. Submitted to New Jersey Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates,
West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
O’Brien, EB, TL Benedict, DC McVarish, TAJ Crist, and PE Siegel
A Phase I Archeological Survey and Architectural Resources Investigation, Route 46
Drainage Improvements Project, Lodi Borough, Bergen County, New Jersey. Submitted to
the New Jersey Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Wagner, DP, and PE Siegel
A Geomorphological and Archeological Analysis of the Arthur Kill-Howland Hook Marine
Terminal Channel, Richmond County, New York and Union County, New Jersey. Submitted
to The Greeley-Polhemus Group and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District.
John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and TL Benedict
Supplemental Phase I Archeological Survey and Phase II Archeological Evaluations of Three
Sites, Route U.S. 1/Penns Neck Interchange, West Windsor Township, Mercer County and
Plainsboro Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Submitted to the New Jersey
Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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1994
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Benedict, TL, and PE Siegel
Supplemental Phase I Archeological Survey, Route U.S. 1Penns Neck Interchange, West
Windsor Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. Submitted to the New Jersey Department of
Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Phase I Archeological Survey, Route 21 Freeway Wetland Mitigation Site, Borough of
Elmwood Park, Bergen County, New Jersey. Submitted to the New Jersey Department of
Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, TL Benedict, R Meyer, and PE Siegel
A Phase I Archeological Survey and Architectural Resources Investigation, Route 1 and 9
Ridgefield Circle Improvements Project, Ridgefield Borough, Bergen County, New Jersey.
Submitted to the New Jersey Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West
Chester, Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Benedict, TL, and PE Siegel
Phase I Archeological Survey, Interstate 78, Section 3G, Truck Rest Area, Bedminster
Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. Submitted to the New Jersey Department of
Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
New York
2002
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and PJ Heaton
Phase IB Archeological Investigations of Wetland Mitigation Areas 1 and 4. Submitted to
Athens Generating Company, Athens, New York. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
2002
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and PJ Heaton
Phase II Archeological Evaluation of Locus 12, Gas Pipeline Interconnect between the
Iroquois Gas Transmission System Pipeline and the Athens Generating Energy Facility.
Submitted to Athens Generating Company, Athens, New York. John Milner Associates, West
Chester, Pennsylvania.
2000
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, PE Siegel, DC Kellogg, and JL Cox, Jr.
Cultural Resources Baseline Study, Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point, Suffolk County, New
York, Reformulation Study. Submitted to The Greeley-Polhemus Group and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, New York District. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
1998
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Background Research and Archeological Sensitivity Assessment for the Athens Transmission
Line Project, Greene, Columbia, and Dutchess Counties, New York. Submitted to U.S.
Generating Company. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
1998
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and AR Jessup
Phase I Archeological Survey and Phase II Archeological Evaluations for the Athens
Generating Project, Greene County, New York. Submitted to U.S. Generating Company. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
1983
Principal Investigator, Public Archaeology Facility, SUNY-Binghamton.
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Siegel, PE, and C Kula
Cultural Resources Management Survey for PIN 9014.13, Routes 206 and 30, Hamlet of
Downsville, Colchester, New York. Department of Anthropology, State University of New
York at Binghamton, Public Archaeology Facility. Submitted to the New York State Museum
and Science Service, Albany.
Versaggi, NM, JM McDonald, C Kula, and PE Siegel
1982
Cultural Resource Management Survey, 1982 Highway Program, PIN 9357.18, I88/I81
Connector, Broome County, New York. Department of Anthropology, State University of
New York at Binghamton, Public Archaeology Facility. Submitted to the New York State
Museum and Science Service, Albany.
Delaware
2005
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and MA Tobias
An Archeological Background Study of the Proposed Delaware Airpark Wetland Mitigation
Area, Blackiston, Kent County, Delaware. Submitted to Federal Aviation Administration,
Delaware Department of Transportation, and the Delaware River and Bay Authority. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2004
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, DC McVarish, and MA Tobias
Archeological Evaluations of Sites 7K-C-382, 7K-C-431, 7K-C-432, and 7K-C-426.
Delaware Airpark, Cheswold, Kent County, Delaware. Submitted to Federal Aviation
Administration, Delaware Department of Transportation, and the Delaware River and Bay
Authority. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2004
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, and PE Siegel
Phase I Archeological Survey and Phase IB/II Historic Architectural Survey. Delaware
Airpark, Cheswold, Kent County, Delaware. Submitted to Federal Aviation Administration,
Delaware Department of Transportation, and the Delaware River and Bay Authority. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2001
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, DC Kellogg, and WP Catts
An Archeological Background Study of the Delaware Air Park, Cheswold, Kent County,
Delaware. Submitted to R.A. Wiedemann & Associates, Georgetown, Kentucky. John Milner
Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2000
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and WP Catts
Phase I Archeological Survey in Selected Portions of the Eastern Shore Natural Gas
Pipeline, Harrington and Milford Townships, Kent County, Delaware. Submitted to Eastern
Shore Natural Gas Company. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania
2006
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA
Siegel, PE, WP Catts, WJ Chadwick, J Balicki, MA Tobias, J Gerhardt
Phase I and II Archeological Investigations for the Proposed Gateway Entrance to Valley
Forge National Historical Park, S.R. 0422, Section SRC, Upper Merion Township,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to Boles, Smyth Associates, Inc., Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Engineering District 6-0, King
of Prussia, Pennsylvania. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
2005
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
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2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2001
2000
1999
Siegel, PE, and AB Bartlett
A Phase II Archeological Evaluation of Site 36LH277 and a Phase III Archeological Data
Recovery of Site 36LH276 for the Proposed Hills at Lock Ridge, Lower Macungie Township,
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to Jaindl Land Company, Orefield, Pennsylvania.
John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, WJ Chadwick, and J Gerhardt
Phase I Archeological Survey, Modernization of the PA23/U.S. Route 422 Interchange and
Relocation of North Gulph Road, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania. Submitted to Boles, Smyth Associates, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and MA Tobias
A Phase I Archeological Survey and Six Phase II Archeological Evaluations for the Proposed
Shops at Saucon Valley Retail Development, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. John Milner Associates, West
Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, and PE Siegel
S.R. 56 Planning Study, Windber to Bedford, Somerset and Bedford Counties, Supplementary
Phase IA Archeological Survey and Reconnaisance-Level Historic Architectural
Investigation. Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner
Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Phase I Archeological Survey in Conjunction with a Proposed Retail Store, West Whiteland
Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to Raymour & Flanigan Furniture,
Liverpool, New York. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Benedict, TL, J Gerhardt, WP Catts, and PE Siegel
A Phase IB Archeological Survey and Three Phase II Archeological Evaluations of the
Proposed Matrix Octagon Center, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to PotomacHudson Engineering, Colts Neck, New Jersey. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and TL Benedict
Addendum to a Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed 18th Ward Pumping Station
Sewerage Facilities in the City of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to
MARONA Construction, Colmar, Pennsylvania and BCM Engineers, Plymouth Meeting,
Pennsylvania. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, TL Benedict, and WP Catts
Phase I Archeological Survey and Phase II Archeological Evaluation in Conjunction with the
Proposed Acorn Hills Development, New Hanover Township, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania. Submitted to Sal Lapio, Inc., Sellersville, Pennsylvania. John Milner
Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and RG Kingsley
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1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1997
1997
1996
A Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed 18th Ward Pumping Station Sewerage
Facilities in the City of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to BCM Engineers,
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, K Simons, and RG Kingsley
A Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed Rainbow Elementary School Expansion,
Chester County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. John Milner
Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and BM Copp Everett
I-80 Point of Access Study, Pocono International Raceway, Monroe County, Pennsylvania:
Reconnaissance Level Archeological and Historic Resources Investigation. Submitted to the
Wilson T. Ballard Company, Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania and Pocono International Raceway,
Long Pond, Pennsylvania. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, TL Benedict, and RG Kingsley
Archeological Data Recoveries at the Fahs II and Oberly Island Sites: Structure, Function,
and Context in the Lower Lehigh Valley, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to
URS Greiner Woodward Clyde, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation, Harrisburg. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and TL Benedict
Susquehanna County, S.R. 0858, Section 572, Middletown Township Bridge Replacement,
Supplemental Phase I Archeological Survey. Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist, JMA.
McVarish, DC, PE Siegel, R Meyer, and JP McCarthy
Susquehanna County, S.R. 0492, Section 570, Lakeside Bridge Replacement, New Milford
Township, Phase I Archeological Survey and Historic Resources Investigation. Submitted to
the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist, JMA.
Wuellner, MJ, TL Benedict, R Meyer, JP McCarthy, and PE Siegel
Luzerne County, S.R. 0239, Section 371, Huntington Mills Bridge Replacement, Huntington
Township, Phase I Archeological Survey and Historic Resources Investigation. Submitted to
the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Phase I Archeological Survey in Conjunction with the Proposed East Whiteland Ecology
Park, East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to DePallo Design
& Planning. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA. Phase III data recovery at Site 36CH128.
Catts, WP, and PE Siegel
Archeological Investigations in Conjunction with the Proposed Exton Square Mall
Expansion, Exton, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to The Rouse Company. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
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1996
1996
1996
1996
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
A Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed Red Lion Road Acme Store in Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to Environmental Resolutions, Inc. and American Stores
Properties, Inc. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
O,Brien, EB, SA Reeve, JJ Gerhardt, R Meyer, and PE Siegel
Luzerne County, S.R. 1018, Section 370, Dallas Township Bridge Replacement, Phase I
Archeological Survey and Historic Resources Investigation. Submitted to Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Preliminary Cultural Resources Review Form, Proposed S.R. 0029, Section M01 Road
Widening, from S.R. 0113 Intersection in Rahns to S.R. 0073 Intersection South of the
Borough of Schwenksville, Perkiomen Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West
Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
A Phase IB Archeological Survey of The Mills at Rose Valley Development Project, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to Renaissance Properties, Inc. John Milner Associates,
West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, TL Benedict, and RG Kingsley
Phase III Data Recovery at the Heimbach Site (Site 36SN223), Monroe Township, Snyder
County, Pennsylvania, Penns Creek Bridge Replacement, S.R. 1014, Section 001. Submitted
to Greiner Engineering Sciences, Inc. and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, PE Siegel, and R Meyer
Cambria, Westmoreland and Indiana Counties, S.R. 56 West End Traffic Study, Johnstown to
U.S. 22, Cultural Resources Investigation. Submitted to the Wilson T. Ballard Company and
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Lehigh County, Western Lehigh Relief Interceptor, Phase I Archeological Survey. Submitted
to Roy F. Weston, Inc. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Reeve, SA, and PE Siegel
Wyoming County, S.R. 0292, Section 770, Bowman’s Creek Bridge Replacement, Phase I
Archeological Survey. Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
McVarish, DC, PE Siegel, R Meyer, and RG Kingsley
S.R. 56 Planning Study, Windber to Bedford, Somerset and Bedford Counties,
Reconnaissance Level Archeological and Historic Resources Investigations. Submitted to the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and JP McCarthy
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1995
1994
1994
1993
1993
1993
1993
1993
1993
Susquehanna County, S.R. 0547, Section 570, Gibson Bridge Replacement, Phase I
Archeological Survey and Phase II Archeological Evaluation. Submitted to Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist, JMA.
McVarish, DC, PE Siegel, R Meyer, and JP McCarthy
Lackawanna County, S.R. 1014 at S.R. 0247, Hill Street Realignment, Phase I Archeological
Survey and Historic Resources Investigation. Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Kingsley, RG, PE Siegel, and TL Benedict
The Barking Road Site: A Multicomponent Prehistoric Occupation in Plum Borough,
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Prepared for CNG Transmission Corporation, Clarksburg,
West Virginia. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Centre County, S.R. 26, Section C04, Phase I Archeological Survey. Submitted to Boles,
Smyth Associates. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist, JMA.
McVarish, DC, PE Siegel, and R Meyer
Susquehanna County, S.R. 0858, Section 572, Middletown Township Bridge Replacement,
Phase I Archeological Survey and Historic Resources Investigation. Submitted to the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Susquehanna County, S.R. 0547, Section 570, Gibson Bridge Replacement, Phase II
Archeological Evaluation Management Summary. Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Snyder County, S.R. 1014, Section 001, Penns Creek Bridge, Supplemental Phase II
Archeological Evaluation Management Summary. Submitted to Greiner Engineering
Sciences. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE (editor)
Archeological Data Recovery of the Mayview Site (36AL134), Mayview Wetlands
Replacement Area, Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Submitted to
the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Susquehanna County, S.R. 0267, Section 571, Rush Township Bridge Replacement, Phase I
Archeological Survey. Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Project Archeologist, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and DC McVarish
Luzerne County, S.R. 2035, Section 370, Railroad Bridge Replacement, Phase I
Archeological Survey. Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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1983
Co-Principal Investigator, Wilkes College Archaeology Program, Department of SociologyAnthropology, Wilkes College.
Rasson, JA, and PE Siegel
A Cultural Resources Report on Selected Areas in the Vicinity of the Proposed Modification
at F.E. Walter Dam. Wilkes College Archaeology Program, Department of SociologyAnthropology, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Submitted to the U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District.
Maryland
2004
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, CD Cheek, and CE Goode
Phase II and III Archeological Investigations in a Portion of Site 18PR131, Prince George’s
County, Maryland. Submitted to Land & Commercial, Upper Marlboro, Maryland. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
1996
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Reeve, SA, and Siegel, PE
Phase III Data Recovery at the Aud Site (Site 18ST634), St. Mary’s County, Maryland.
Maryland State Highway Administration Archeological Report No. 111. Submitted to the
Maryland State Highway Administration. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
1994
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and JS Stevens
Phase II Archeological Evaluation of the Evitts Creek I Site (Site 18AG186), Allegany
County, Maryland, U.S. 220 Relocated, Contract No. A 555-000-670. Maryland State
Highway Administration Archeological Report No. 90. Submitted to the Maryland State
Highway Administration. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
1993
Project Archeologist, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and MJ Wuellner
Phase II Archeological Testing of the Loretto Branch Site (18SO147), University of Maryland
Eastern Shore Access Road, Alternate 6/6A Modified, Contract Number S 365-101-171.
Maryland State Highway Administration Archeological Report No. 85. Submitted to the
Maryland State Highway Administration. John Milner Associates, West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
Virginia
1999
1998
1998
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA. Phase I archeological survey. South Carolina
pipeline, Aiken, Kershaw, and Marlboro Counties, South Carolina. New South Associates,
Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Roanoke Rapids and Gaston Hydropower Relicensing Project: Cultural Resources
Testing/Evaluation of Archaeological Site 44MC113, Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
Technical Report 596. New South Associates, Stone Mountain, Georgia. Submitted to Foster
Wheeler Environmental Corporation, Livingston, New Jersey. Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission No. 2009.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Roanoke Rapids and Gaston Hydropower Relicensing Project: Cultural Resources Survey of
High Probability Areas Parallel to the Shoreline: Brunswick and Mecklenburg Counties,
Virginia. Technical Report 597. New South Associates, Stone Mountain, Georgia. Submitted
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1995
1995
to Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, Livingston, New Jersey. Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission No. 2009.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Catts, WP, AC Rose, PE Siegel, and MJ Wuellner
Phase II Archeological Evaluation of the Motts Run Site (44SP254) for the Proposed Motts
Run Water Filtration Plant, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Submitted to Hayes, Seay,
Mattern & Mattern. John Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, WP Catts, and MJ Wuellner
Phase II Archeological Evaluation of Nine Sites in the Proposed Hunting Run Reservoir
Area, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Submitted to Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern. John
Milner Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Michigan
1999
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Fiedel, SJ, PE Siegel, DC McVarish, RG Kingsley, JI Klein, TL Benedict, R Meyer, JA
Robertson, and DG Landis
Results of a Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Portions of the Proposed Vector Pipeline
in Michigan, MP 137.25 – 251.56. Submitted to Natural Resources Group, Inc. John Milner
Associates, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Puerto Rico, U. S. Virgin Islands
2007
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA
Espenshade, C, PE Siegel, J Loubser, and HB Matternes
Detailed Phase II Archaeological Testing and Data Recovery Planning, Site PO-29,
Portugues Dam and Pool, Puerto Rico. Contract No. W912EP-04-D-0030. New South
Associates, Stone Mountain, Georgia. Submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Jacksonville District, Jacksonville, Florida.
2004
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, TM Hamby, and MT Swanson
Phase II Archaeological Evaluations, Río Grande de Manatí Flood Control Project,
Municipio de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. Submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Jacksonville District. New South Associates, Stone Mountain, Georgia.
2002
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE
Archaeological Data Recoveries at Sites HU-6 and HU-7, Río Antón Ruíz Flood Control
Project, Municipio de Humacao, Puerto Rico. Submitted to U. S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Jacksonville District. New South Associates, Stone Mountain, Georgia.
2002
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and MT Swanson
Stage IA Cultural Resources Assessment, Scorpio Recycling, Inc. Superfund Site, Toa Baja,
Puerto Rico. Submitted to CDM Federal Programs Corporation, San Juan, Puerto Rico. New
South Associates, Stone Mountain, Georgia.
2001
Principal Archeologist/Project Manager, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and GF Tyson
Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Harthman Tract, Estate Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas,
U. S. Virgin Islands. Submitted to the Harthman Family. New South Associates, Stone
Mountain, Georgia.
1993
Principal Investigator, JMA.
Siegel, PE, and JW Joseph
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Archeological Data Recovery at El Palmar de las Animas (VB-27) and the Concrete Well
(VB-32) Sites, Río Cibuco Flood Control Project, Municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
Technical Report 206. New South Associates, Stone Mountain, Georgia. Submitted to the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, Florida.
Bolivia
2001
Consultant, JMA
Myers, E, W Esquerdo, A Muñoz, L Camacho, P Siegel, and P Bienenfeld
Río San Miguel to Cuibá Natural Gas Pipeline (Bolivian Sector), Report of Archeological
Excavations. URS/Dames & Moore, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Submitted to Gas Oriente
Boliviano, La Paz.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Siegel, Peter E.
1984 Prehistoric Behavioral/Locational Organization in the Lower Chenango River Valley, New York.
Ms. on file, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Binghamton.
1977 The Making of a Midden: Ethnoarchaeology in the Tropical Rain Forest of Peru. Ms. on file,
Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware, Newark.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Siegel, Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Pat Farrell
2016 Caribbean Landscapes in the Age of the Anthropocene: The First Colonizers. Paper to be
presented in the session “New Insights into the Archaic of the Circum-Caribbean,” organized by
Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak. 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Orlando. Apr 6-10, 2016.
Duncan, Neil A., Peter E. Siegel, John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Deborah M. Pearsall
2016 Caribbean landscapes during the late-precolonial and early-colonial periods. Paper to be
presented in the session “Caribbean Environmental Archaeology: New Perspectives on Human
Ecodynamics and Social Relations,” organized by Christina M. Giovas, Jason E. Laffoon, and
Michelle J. LeFebvre. 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando.
Apr 6-10, 2016.
Wells, E. Christian, Georgia L. Fox, Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Reginald Murphy
2016 The Landscape Legacies of Plantation Agriculture in the Caribbean: An Historical-Ecological
Perspective from Betty’s Hope, Antigua. Paper to be presented in the session “The Environmental
Legacies of Colonialism in the Neotropics,” organized by Diane Wallman and E. Christian Wells.
81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando. Apr 6-10, 2016.
Siegel, Peter E.
2015 The History, Archaeology, and Social Context of the Van Reyper-Bond House in Upper
Montclair. Paper presented in the series “Rising Tide: What We can Learn from the Dutch and
their Relationship with Water. Organized by the Department of Earth & Environmental Studies
and Sprague Library, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. Oct 29, 2015.
Siegel, Peter E.
2015 Politics in the Past, Politics of the Past: Site PO-29, Heritage, and the Imagination of Identity.
Presentation to the NEXUS/Caribbean Research Group, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden
University, Leiden, NL. May 12, 2015.
Dunning, Nicholas P., Peter E. Siegel, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Pat Farrell
2015 Early Human Impacts in the West Indies. Paper presented in the session “New Perspectives in
Paleoenvironmental Change and Geoarchaeology II: North America and the Caribbean,”
organized by Samuel E. Munoz, Matthew C. Peros, and Timothy Beach. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Chicago. Apr 21-25, 2015.
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Siegel, Peter E.
2015 An Overview of Caribbean Archaeology and Heritage. Presentation to the European Research
Council-funded NEXUS 1492 group. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, NL. March 31,
2015.
Siegel, Peter E.
2015 Mounds for the Ancestors in the Caribbean Neolithic. “Archaeologies of Mounds,” symposium
organized by Roosmarie Vlaskamp and Arjan Louwen. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden
University, NL. March 30, 2015.
Siegel, Peter E.
2015 Caribbean Landscapes in the Age of the Anthropocene: The First Colonizers. Presentation to the
Department of Anthropology and the Center for Archaeological Investigatiions, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale. March 23, 2015.
Siegel, Peter E.
2015 Human Colonization of New Places: A Comparison of the Caribbean, Oceania, the
Mediterranean, and Mainland North America. Keynote address in the session “Between the
Islands and the Mainland: The Role of Isolation and Connectivity in the Social Development of
Past Societies.” Archon: Research School of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden
University, Leiden, NL. Feb 12, 2015.
Siegel, Peter E.
2015 Caribbean Landscapes in the Age of the Anthropocene, Part 1: The First Colonizers. Presentation
to the NEXUS/Caribbean Research Group, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden,
NL. Feb 3, 2015.
Siegel, Peter E.
2014 Paleoenvironmental Evidence for First Human Colonization of the Eastern Caribbean.
Presentation in the Sustainability Seminar Series, Department of Earth and Environmental
Studies, College of Science and Mathematics, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. Dec 9,
2014.
Siegel Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan,
Jason H. Curtis, and Sushant K. Singh
2014 Paleoecological Evidence for Early Human Colonization of the Pre-Columbian Caribbean. Paper
presented in the session “World Ethnobiology: Papers in Honor of Deborah M. Pearsall,”
organized by Peter E. Siegel. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Austin. Apr 23-27, 2014.
Siegel, Peter E.
2013 Archaeology on the Campus: Archaeological Investigations of the Van Reyper-Bond House at
Montclair State University. Paper presented in the session “Historical Archaeology of New
Jersey,” organized by Christopher Matthews, Richard Veit, and Peter Siegel. Annual Conference
for Northeast Historical Archaeology, University of Delaware, Newark. Nov 7-10, 2013.
Siegel, Peter E.
2013 Cosmopolitan Polities of the Ancient Caribbean. Presentation to the Pre-Columbian Society at the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Philadelphia. Oct 12,
2013.
Siegel, Peter E.
2013 Cultural Construction, Interculturality, Multiethnicity, and Survival Strategies among
Amerindians in the ‘Island of Guiana’ with a Brief Introduction from the Upper Amazon. Paper
presented at the III Encuentro Internacional de Arqueología Amazónica. Quito, Ecuador. 8-14
Septiembre 2013.
Siegel, Peter E., Renzo S. Duin, and Jimmy L. J. A. Mans
2013 Down-the-Line Encounters: Processes of Exchange, Post-Colonial Experiences, and Globalization
in the Island of Guiana on the South American Continent. Paper presented in the symposium
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“Archaeologies, Legacies, and Heritages of Colonial Encounters in the Pacific and the
Caribbean,” organized by Corinne L. Hofman and Ian Lilley. 78th Annual Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii. Apr 3-7, 2013.
Siegel, Peter E., Corinne L. Hofman, Benoît Bérard, Reg Murphy, Jorge Ulloa Hung, and Roberto
Valcarcel Rojas
2012 Confronting Caribbean Heritage in an Archipelago of Diversity: Politics, Stakeholders, Natural
Disasters, Tourism, and Development. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International
Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management, Cuzco, Peru. Nov 27-30, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2012 Cultural Construction, Interculturality, Multiethnicity, and Survival Strategies among Native
Americans in the Guiana Highlands. Paper presented in the panel “Beyond the Village:
Multidisciplinary Dialogues on Sociality in the Guianas,” organized by R. S. Duin. 54th
International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria. July 15-20, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2012 Pipeline to the Past: Documenting Heritage for the San Miguel-Cuiabá Natural Gas Project in
Southeastern Bolivia. Paper presented in the panel “The Contribution of Linear Energy Projects
to World Heritage,” organized by J. Emlen Myers. 32nd Annual Meeting of the International
Association for Impact Assessment, Porto, Portugal. May 27-June 1, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2012 The Promise, Prospect, or Illusion of Ethnoarchaeology? A Multidisciplinary Effort in the
‘Waiwai’ Village of Shefariymo, Guyana. Presentation in the Johan de Laet event
“Ethnoarchaeology in the Guiana Highlands,” organized by Esther Plomp and Ruben Habraken.
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. May 14, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2012 Caribbean Archaeology in World History. Paper presented in the World History
Programme, coordinated by Mark Stout. Faculty of Humanities & Sciences, Maastricht
University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. May 9, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2012 The Theory of Cultural Evolution and Its Application to Caribbean Pre-Columbian History. Paper
presented to the Honors Students in the Faculty of Archaeology, coordinated by Corinne L.
Hofman and Angus A. A. Mol. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The
Netherlands. Apr 19, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2012 Interculturality in the Ancient Caribbean. Paper presented in the Research Master’s Programme
“Latin American and Caribbean Studies,” coordinated by Patricio Silva. Faculty of Humanities,
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Mar 26, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E., and Corinne L. Hofman
2012 The Future of the Past in Caribbean Heritage Landscapes and Seascapes. Paper presented in the
session “Inland Seas in the Modern Period and into the Future.” Inland Seas in Global
Perspective: International Conference on the Archaeology, History and Heritage Management of
Cultural Landscapes, organized by Junzo Uchiyama and Ilona Bausch. Leiden University, The
Netherlands. Mar 16-17, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2012 There are Many Pathways to Complex Society and Social Inequality: One Example from the PreHispanic Caribbean. Paper presented in the seminar series “Archaeological Forum,” organized by
Angus A. A. Mol and Alice V. M. Samson. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden,
The Netherlands. Feb 28, 2012.
Siegel, Peter E.
2010 Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean: A Context for Research. Paper presented in
the seminar "Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean," organized by Peter E. Siegel.
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Research Team Short Seminar, School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience, Santa
Fe, New Mexico. Oct 19-20, 2010.
Siegel, Peter E.
2010 There are Many Pathways to Social Inequality: One Example from the Pre-Hispanic Caribbean.
Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. Oct 22, 2010.
Siegel, Peter E.
2010 Origin Myths and Native American Identity: Some Examples from North America and the
Caribbean. Paper presented in the symposium "Origin Myths," organized by Victoria T. Larson.
Humanities in the Schools. Institute for the Humanities, Montclair State University. Mar 26,
2010.
Siegel, Peter E.
2009 Marking Transitions in the Caribbean before Columbus. Paper presented in the symposium
"Coming-of-Age: A Humanistic Perspective," organized by Victoria T. Larson. Humanities in the
Schools. Institute for the Humanities, Montclair State University. Dec 3, 2009.
Siegel, Peter E.
2009 Chiefdoms of the Caribbean. Paper presented in the symposium “Pre-Columbian Cultures of the
Caribbean,” organized by Lucy Wilson. Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. Sept 19,
2009.
Siegel, Peter E.
2009 The Structure of House and House as Structure: Spatial Symbolism in Lowland South America
and the West Indies. Presentation in the series “Houses and Concepts of Home: Place and
Belonging in a Global World.” Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Center
for Heritage and Archaeological Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey. Feb
2, 2009.
Siegel, Peter E.
2009 Site PO-29 in Context: Past and Present. Paper presented in the symposium “Recent Research in
South-Central Puerto Rico,” organized by Joshua M. Torres and Christopher T. Espenshade. 74th
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.
Siegel, Peter E.
2008 The Evolution of Chiefly Society in the Caribbean. Lecture presented to the Department of
Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Nov 11, 2008.
Siegel, Peter E.
2008 Pre-Columbian History of the Caribbean. Lecture presented to the Montclair Adult School
Program, Montclair, New Jersey. Oct 20, 2008.
Siegel, Peter E.
2008 What do We Mean by an Archaeological Culture? The Concept of “Taíno” in the Pre-Columbian
Caribbean. Paper presented in the symposium “The Taínos: Myth, Invention, or Reality?”
organized by L. Antonio Curet, Daniel Torres-Etayo, and John G. Crock. 73rd Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jones, John G., Claudette A. Casile, and Peter E. Siegel
2008 Human Environmental Interaction in the Caribbean: Pollen as Key to Identifying Population
Movements, Settlement and Agriculture. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Northwest
Anthropological Conference, Seattle, Washington.
Siegel, Peter E.
2007 Dual Organization, Circular Communities, and the Evolution of Caribbean Chiefdoms. Paper
presented at the Ben Rouse’s Legacy Memorial Conference. Peabody Museum of Natural History,
Yale University, New Haven. Apr 20-21, 2007. Sponsored by the Yale Department of
Anthropology, the Council on Archaeological Studies at Yale, the Yale Peabody Museum of
Natural History, and the Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.
Siegel, Peter E.
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2006
Cosmology, Community, and Cycles of Life, Death, and Rebirth in Pre-Columbian Puerto Rico.
Paper presented in the symposium “From Alpha to Omega: Imagining Beginnings, Foreseeing
Ends,” organized by Victoria T. Larson. Humanities in the Schools. Institute for the Humanities,
Montclair State University. Dec 2006.
Siegel, Peter E.
2006 Competitive Polities and Territorial Expansion in the Caribbean. Paper presented in the plenary
session “Islands in the Stream: Interisland and Continental Interaction in the Caribbean,”
organized by L. Antonio Curet. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Siegel, Peter E.
2006 Pre-Columbian Pottery in the West Indies: Compositional Change in Context. Paper presented in
the symposium “An Exploratory Study into the Chemical Characterization of Caribbean
Ceramics: In Memory of James B. Petersen,” organized by Christophe Descantes and Michael D.
Glascock. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Foss, John E., and Peter E. Siegel
2006 Coastal Geomorphology, Archaeological Site Formation, and Settlement Patterns: A Case Study
from the East Coast of Puerto Rico. Paper presented in the SAA-sponsored symposium
“Compliance Archaeology in Pursuit of the Caribbean’s Past: How Are We Doing and What Do
We Have to Show?,” organized by Peter E. Siegel. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Siegel, Peter E.
2002 What Happened After A.D. 600 on Puerto Rico? Corporate Groups, Population Restructuring, and
Post-Saladoid Social Changes. Invited paper presented in the conference, “Post-Saladoid Societies
in the Eastern Caribbean.” Organized by Corinne Hofman and André Delpuech. Leiden
University, Leiden, The Netherlands and Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie, Paris.
Siegel, Peter E.
2002 Ethnoarchaeology and Ethnographic Analogy in Lowland South America and the West Indies.
Lecture presented to the students enrolled in Anthropology 428 (Ethnoarchaeology), Department
of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Course instructor: Dr. Katherine M. Moore
Anderson-Córdova, Karen F., Mark R. Barnes, and Peter E. Siegel
2002 The Interaction between the Caribbean and Eastern North America in the Colonial Period. Invited
paper presented in the symposium, “The Contact Period and the Atlantic World.” Organized by
Martin Gallivan and Michael J. Klein, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic
Archaeological Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Siegel, Peter E.
2001 Lugares disputados y lugares de disputa: la evolución del poder social y el espacio ceremonial en
el Puerto Rico prehistórico. Presentación. Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural, Caracas, Venezuela.
Siegel, Peter E., Douglas C. Kellogg, and Robert G. Kingsley
2001 Brandywine Creek Watershed (Watershed H), Chester, Lancaster, and Delaware Counties,
Pennsylvania. Paper presented in the symposium, “Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Upland
Settings.” Organized and chaired by Kurt Carr and Patricia Miller, 31st Annual Meeting of the
Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, Ocean City, Maryland.
Siegel, Peter E.
2000 The Oberly Island Site: Prehistoric Late Archaic/Late Woodland Adaptations in the Lower
Lehigh Valley. Paper presented in “Byways to the Past: The First Annual Conference on Historic
and Archaeological Investigations in Pennsylvania Transportation Projects.” Sponsored by the
Federal Highway Administration, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Siegel, Peter E.
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1999
Compliance on Route 33: Major Excavation of the Oberly Island Site. Lecture presented to the
Forks of the Delaware Chapter 14, Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, Easton.
Siegel, Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Daniel P. Wagner
1999 Culture and Environment in Prehistoric Puerto Rico. Paper presented in the symposium, “Culture
and Environment in the Lowland Neotropics.” Organized and chaired by Peter E. Siegel, 64th
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.
Siegel, Peter E.
1998 Community Organization and Cosmology in the Lowland Neotropics. Lecture presented to the
Department of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Siegel, Peter E.
1997 Prehistory of the Caribbean and Lowland South America. Lecture presented to the students
enrolled in Anthropology 285 (Prehistoric Peoples of the Americas). Department of
Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Course instructor: Dr. David J.
Bernstein.
Siegel, Peter E.
1996 Ideology, Space, and Status: The Evolution of Taíno Chiefdoms. Paper presented in the
symposium, “Alternative Models for Social Complexity in Latin America.” Organized by John W.
Hoopes and Anna C. Roosevelt, 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
New Orleans.
Reeve, Stuart A., and Peter E. Siegel
1996 Estuarine Habitats and Plant Gathering during the Woodland Period in Southern Maryland. Paper
presented in the symposium “Archaeobotany in the Northeast.” New York Natural History
Conference, New York State Museum, Albany.
Siegel, Peter E.
1995 Prehistory of the Caribbean and Lowland South America. Lecture presented to the students
enrolled in Anthropology 285 (Prehistoric Peoples of the Americas). Department of
Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Course instructor: Dr. David J.
Bernstein.
Siegel, Peter E.
1994 Ideology and Culture Change: A View from the Community. Paper presented in the symposium,
"It's a Small World After All: The Study of Communities and their Organization." Organized by
Peter E. Siegel and Michael J. Kolb, 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Anaheim, California.
Siegel, Peter E.
1992 Art, World View, and Culture of the Taínos and their Ancestors: An Ethnohistoric and
Archaeological Perspective. Lecture presented in the series "The Year 1492 at Home and
Abroad." Sponsored by the Department of Humanities and Communications, Drexel University,
Philadelphia.
Siegel, Peter E.
1990 Current Research in Caribbean Saladoid Archaeology and the Maisabel Excavation. Lecture
presented to the Foundation for Field Research and Florida Museum of Natural History staff.
Pearls, St. Andrews, Grenada.
Siegel, Peter E.
1989 Baskets to Bones: Ethnography and Archaeology in the Caribbean. Lecture presented to the
Department of Geology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
Siegel, Peter E.
1988 Demographic and Architectural Organization Among Early Ceramic Groups in the Caribbean.
Paper presented in the symposium, "Early Ceramic Population Lifeways and Adaptive Strategies
in the Caribbean." Organized and chaired by Peter E. Siegel, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology, Phoenix.
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Siegel, Peter E.
1987 Small Village Demographic and Architectural Organization: An Example from the Tropical
Lowlands. Paper presented in the symposium, "Site Structure and Spatial Organization of
Sedentary Communities." Organized by Philip J. Arnold III and Michael P. Smyth, 52nd Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Toronto.
Siegel, Peter E.
1984 Ethnographic Tyranny in Northwest Alaska: A Case Study of an Archaeological Rebellion. Paper
presented in the symposium, "Lithic Experiments in Archaeology: Case Studies in Replication
and Usewear Research." Organized by William F. Andrefsky and Paula Bienenfeld, 49th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, Oregon.
Siegel, Peter E., and Peter G. Roe
1984 An Archaeo-Ethnographic Spatial Analysis of Two Shipibo House Compounds: Implications for
Site Formation Processes and Interpreting the Archaeological Record. Paper presented in the
symposium, "Ethnoarchaeology of Refuse Disposal.” Organized by Edward Staski and Livingston
D. Sutro, 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, Oregon.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
Jones, John G., Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning and Deborah Pearsall
2010 Human Occupation and Settlement on Trinidad: Pollen Evidence from a Series of Sediment
Cores. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St.
Louis. Apr 14-18, 2010.
Casile, Claudette A., John G. Jones, and Peter E. Siegel
2008 Human Environmental Interaction in the Caribbean: Pollen as Key to Identifying Population
Movements, Settlement and Agriculture. Poster presented at the Northwest Anthropological
Conference, Victoria, British Columbia. Apr 23-26, 2008.
Casile, Claudette A., Jones, John G., Nicholas P. Dunning, and Peter E. Siegel
2008 A Palynological Perspective on Pre-Columbian Activities on Trinidad. Paper presented at the 73rd
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. March
26-30, 2008.
Jones, John G., Nicholas P. Dunning, and Peter E. Siegel
2008 Pre-Columbian Human/Environmental Interactions on Antigua, West Indies: Palynological
Implications from a Sediment Core. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. Mar 26-30, 2008.
Goode, Charles E., Peter E. Siegel, and Charles D. Cheek
2008 River’s Edge: A Multiple Occupation Prehistoric Site on the Potomac River, Prince George’s
County, Maryland. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic
Archaeological Conference, Ocean City, Maryland. Feb 28-Mar 2, 2008.
Siegel, Peter E.
2007 Dual Organization and Circular Communities: Evidence from the Caribbean and North America.
Paper presented at the meeting of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, Monmouth
University, West Long Branch. May 19, 2007.
Catts, Wade, Joseph Balicki, and Peter E. Siegel
2006 “A System of Easy Manuvers…”: Archaeological Evidence of a Musketry Range at Valley Forge
National Historical Park, Pennsylvania, USA. Paper presented at the 4th International Fields of
Conflict Conference, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, England.
Siegel, Peter E.
2003 The Evolution of Social Inequality and Complex Society: The Chiefdoms/Cacicazgos of the
Caribbean. Lecture presented to the Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw University, Warsaw,
Poland.
Siegel, Peter E., and J. W. Joseph
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If an Archaeological Site is Buried and Nobody Finds It, Does that Mean It Doesn’t Exist?:
Survey, Testing, and Data Recovery in the Playas and Alluvial Plains of Puerto Rico. Paper
presented in “El Foro Aportaciones de la Arqueología de Contrato al Conocimiento Arqueológico
en Puerto Rico.” Sponsored by la Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica, San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
Siegel, Peter E.
2001 Post-Saladoid Coastal Occupations on Prehistoric Puerto Rico: A View from the East. Paper
presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
Siegel, Peter E., Robert G. Kingsley, and Tod L. Benedict
2000 Oberly Island: Trend and Tradition in the Lower Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Paper presented at
the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.
Siegel, Peter E.
1998 Waiwai Ethnography, Lowland South American Cosmology, and Caribbean Ceramic-Age
Archaeology: Some Unifying Threads. Lecture presented to the Department of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
Reeve, Stuart A., and Peter E. Siegel
1995 Woodland Period Activity Organization and Habitat Selection in Southern Maryland: A View
from the Aud Site. Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern States
Archeological Federation, Wilmington, Delaware.
Siegel, Peter E., Robert G. Kingsley, and Tod L. Benedict
1995 The Heimbach Site: Technological, Spatial, and Chemical Analysis of Quarry Site Artifacts.
Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Archeological Federation,
Wilmington, Delaware.
Siegel, Peter E.
1992 Lowland Cosmology as an Interpretive Framework for Prehistoric Community Organization: The
Maisabel Site, Puerto Rico. Paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Pittsburgh.
Siegel, Peter E.
1989 Thermoluminescence (TL) Dating and Archaeological Interpretation at Maisabel. Paper presented
at the III Encuentro de Investigardores de la Asociación Puertorriqueña de Antropólogos y
Arqueólogos, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Siegel, Peter E.
1983 A Quantitative Method for Describing and Analyzing Feature Morphology. Paper presented at the
48th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh.
Siegel, Peter E.
1983 A Functional Analysis of an Assemblage of Inupiat Eskimo Endscrapers: Morphological, Edge
Angle, and Ethnographic Implications. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Northeastern Anthropological Association, Syracuse, New York.
Siegel, Peter E., and Richard B. Hughes
1980 A Lithic Microwear and Spatial Analysis of a Late Woodland Blufftop Site in the Central
Mississippi Valley. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Eastern States
Archaeological Federation, Albany, New York.
2001
SYMPOSIA AND SEMINARS
Organizer and chairperson. “The Caiman’s (and Frog’s) Revenge: Intersecting Papers in Honor of Peter G. Roe.” 82nd
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mar 29-Apr 2, 2017. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Commentator. “Is Clovis Still First?” Presentation by Stuart J. Fiedel. Anthropology Section of the New
York Academy of Sciences. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York. Oct
27, 2014.
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Organizer and chairperson. “World Ethnobiology: Papers in Honor of Deborah M. Pearsall.” Sponsored
by the Society of Ethnobiology. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Apr
23-27, 2014. Austin, Texas.
Organizer and chairperson. “Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean.” Research seminar
co-sponsored and funded by the National Science Foundation and the School for Advanced Research
on the Human Experience. Oct 18-19, 2010. School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Invited discussant. “Mobility and Exchange from a Pan-Caribbean Perspective,” held at the 73rd Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Mar 26-30, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Organized by Corinne L. Hofman and Alistair J. Bright.
Invited discussant. “Recent Caribbean Collections Research at the Peabody Museum of Natural History,
Yale University,” held at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Apr 2529, 2007, Austin, Texas. Organized by Roger H. Colten.
Organizer and chairperson. "Compliance Archaeology in Pursuit of the Caribbean’s Past: How Are We
Doing and What Do We Have to Show?” SAA-sponsored symposium held at the 71st Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Apr 26–30, 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Organizer and chairperson. "Culture and Environment in the Lowland Neotropics," held at the 64th
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Mar 24-28, 1999, Chicago, Illinois.
Invited discussant. “Recent Directions in Caribbean Prehistory: Beyond Migration,” held at the 62nd
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Apr 2-6, 1997, Nashville, Tennessee.
Organized by Mary Jane Berman and L. Antonio Curet.
Co-organizer (with Michael J. Kolb) and chairperson. "It's a Small World After All: The Study of
Communities and Their Organization," held at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Apr 20-24, 1994, Anaheim, California.
Invited discussant. "The Late Ceramic Age in the Northeast Caribbean," held at the 57th Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Apr 8-12, 1992, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Organized by
David R. Watters.
Organizer and chairperson. "Early Ceramic Population Lifeways and Adaptive Strategies in the
Caribbean," held at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Apr 27-May 1,
1988, Phoenix, Arizona.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2015
Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology fellowship. Teaching, advising, and
collaborating with the Caribbean Research Group, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Spring 2015. (€20,000)
2012
Global Education Travel Grant, Montclair State University. “Cultural Construction,
Interculturality, Multiethnicity, and Survival Strategies among Native Americans in the
Guiana Highlands.” Paper presented in the panel “Beyond the Village: Multidisciplinary
Dialogues on Sociality in the Guianas,” organized by R. S. Duin. 54th International
Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria. Jul 15-20, 2012. ($800.00)
2012
2011
2011
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Lecturing/Research award.
Project title: “Perspectives on Complex Society; Evolution of Religion and Political
Organization in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean.” Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University,
Leiden, The Netherlands. ($18,078.00)
Dean’s Recognition Award for Scholarship. Nominated by the Chair of Anthropology,
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey.
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in recognition of scholarly work and service to the
institution. Nominated by the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey.
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2010
2009-2010
2008-2014
2008-2010
2007-2009
1997-1999
1997-1999
1989
1984
1976
Research Team Short Seminar grant. School for Advanced Research on the Human
Experience, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Funded by National Science Foundation and SAR.
Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean.
Teaching Fellows Program, Research Academy for University Learning, Montclair State
University, Montclair, New Jersey.
National Science Foundation, Archaeology and Geography and Regional Science
Programs. Senior Research Grant (BCS-0818372). Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian
Caribbean. ($116,426.00).
National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration. Grant #8438-08.
Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean. ($27,100.00).
National Science Foundation, Archaeology and Geography and Regional Science
Programs. Senior Research Grant (BCS-0718819). Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian
Caribbean. ($90,726.00).
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Regular Grant Program (Grant
No. 6167). Horticultural and Environmental Reconstruction in Prehistoric Puerto Rico.
($15,000.00)
H. John Heinz III Charitable Fund of the Heinz Family Foundation. Latin American
Archaeological Field Research Grant Program. Horticultural and Environmental
Reconstruction in Prehistoric Puerto Rico. Co-Principal Investigator with Deborah M.
Pearsall. ($12,000.00)
National Science Foundation. Archaeology Program. Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant
(BNS88-22317). Occupational History of an Early Ceramic Age Settlement on the North
Coast of Puerto Rico. ($10,000.00)
Research Foundation Seed Grant. SUNY-Binghamton. Prehistoric Behavioral/Locational
Organization in the Lower Chenango River Valley, New York. ($500.00)
Research Foundation Grants-in-Aid. University of Delaware. Ethnoarchaeological Study
of Two Shipibo House Compounds in the Montaña Region of Eastern Peru. ($750.00)
COMMITTEES
 MSU search committee for a Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2013-2014.
 New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Division advisory board committee. 2009-present.
 Archaeological Society of New Jersey executive board committee. 2009-2012.
 Fulbright Specialist Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, archaeology peer review
committee. 2011-2012.
 MSU Global Education Center grants proposal review committee. 2010.
 MSU Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies steering committee. 2006-present.
 MSU Latin American and Latino Studies advisory board committee. 2006-2011.
 MSU anthropology Antoinette C. Bigel Fund grants proposal review committee. 2006-present.
 MSU anthropology Lambda Alpha honor society committee. 2009-present.
 Chair of MSU anthropology seminars, events, and receptions committee. 2010-2013.
 College of Science and Mathematics, MSU. Electron microscopy specialist search committee. 2011.
SOLICITED REVIEWS PROVIDED FOR
 American Antiquity: 2 articles.
 Current Anthropology: 1 report, 2 major articles.
 Development and Change: 1 article.
 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology: 1 review article.
 Journal of Caribbean Archaeology: 6 articles.
 Journal of Field Archaeology: 2 articles.
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 Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology: 1 article.
 Latin American Antiquity: 16 articles.
 Oxbow Press (British Archaeological Reports): Book chapter for Anthropological Approaches to
Zooarchaeology.
 Oxford University Press. This Land was Theirs: A Study of Native North Americans, 9th ed. by Wendell
H. Oswalt.
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 1 article.
 University of Alabama Press: 3 book manuscripts, 1 book prospectus.
 University of Calgary, Universidad de Cantabria, and International Council for Archaeozoology: Book
chapter for Not Only Food: Marine, Terrestrial and Freshwater Molluscs in Archaeological Sites.
 University Press of Florida: 1 book manuscript.
 Waveland Press. Replicating the Past: The Art and Science of the Archaeological Experiment by
Stephen C. Saraydar.
 Yale Peabody Museum: 1 collection in bulletin series.
 Yale University Publications in Anthropology: 1 monograph in YUPA series.
 European Science Foundation: 1 proposal.
 Fulbright Specialist Program: 8 proposals.
 Fulbright Student Award Competition: 1 proposal.
 Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowship, Cambridge University: 1 proposal.
 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University: 1 proposal.
 National Geographic Society, Committee for Research & Exploration: 8 proposals.
 National Science Foundation: 34 proposals.
 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: 14 proposals.
 Global Education Center, Montclair State University: 17 proposals.
 External reviewer for promotion and tenure committee, Department of Sociology & Anthropology,
Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana. Tenure application of faculty member.
 External reviewer for promotion and tenure committee, Department of Anthropology, SUNY-New
Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Promotion application of faculty member.
 Advisory committee member, M.Phil. cultural studies thesis, University of the West Indies, St.
Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Ms. Dahlia James-Williams.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
 American Anthropological Association
 Archaeological Society of New Jersey
 International Association for Caribbean Archaeology
 New York Academy of Sciences
 New York Archaeological Council
 Organización Puertorriqueña de Arqueólogía
 Pennsylvania Archaeological Council
 Register of Professional Archaeologists
 Society for American Archaeology
 Society for Latin American Anthropology
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
 Geographical: Caribbean, Lowland South America, Eastern North America.
 Theoretical and Methodological: complex society, chiefdoms, social and political inequality, lithic
analysis, spatial analysis, ethnoarchaeology, historical ecology, heritage studies, cultural resources
management.
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