Timothy Binzen Research Publications:

2005 The Turners Falls Site: An Early PaleoIndian Presence in the Connecticut River Valley. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Volume 66(2):46-57.

The River Beyond the Mountains: Native American Settlements of the Upper Housatonic during the Woodland Period. In: The Challenge, An Algonquian Peoples Seminar. Shirley Dunn, ed. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 506, Albany.

2004 Native American Settlement in the Upper Housatonic During the Woodland Period. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Volume 65(1):29-38.

Weataug and Wechquadnach: Native American Settlements of the Upper Housatonic. In: The Continuance, An Algonquian Peoples Seminar, Selected Research Papers. Shirley Dunn, ed. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 501, Albany.

2002 A Native American Archaeological Site in the Plymouth Commemorative Landscape. [Senior Author with C. Donta] Northeast Anthropology Number 64, Fall 2002.

1997 Mohican Lands and Colonial Corners: Weataug, Wechquadnach and the Connecticut Colony 1675-1750. M.A. thesis, successfully defended at the Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Wechquadnach and Weataug: Indian Communities of the Colonial Period. Archaeological Perspectives column, Harold Juli, ed., Connecticut Preservation News, Jan.-Feb. 1997.

Timothy Binzen Conference Presentations and Lectures:

2005 Paleoindian Jasper Use and Gainey-Like Points at Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2003 Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Methods for Evaluating Small Lithic Sites. Paper presented at “Current Approaches to the Analysis and Interpretation of Small Lithic Sites in the Northeast”, a Colloquium sponsored by the New York State Museum, Albany.

2002 A Native American Site in the Commemorative Landscape of Plymouth. Paper presented at the Symposium “Continuity in Native Coastal New England”, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), Denver, Colorado.

The River Beyond the Mountains: Native American Settlements of the Upper Housatonic During the Woodland Period. Paper presented at “Mohican Seminar 2002: The Challenge”, An Algonquian Peoples Seminar, New York State Museum, Albany.

2001 A Backward Glance: Landscape Archaeology at The Mount, Home of Edith Wharton. Presentation for the Fall Lecture Series of the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum, Boston.

Mohican Communities of the Housatonic: An Archaeological and Historical Perspective. Paper presented at “Many Trails of the Mohican Nation: A Conference on Mohican History and Culture”, Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation, Bowler, Wisconsin.

The Mount, Home and Gardens of Edith Wharton: Landscape Archaeology. Presentation for the lecture series “Great Gardens and Their Designers”, Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts.

2000 Weataug and Wechquadnach: Native American Settlements of the Upper Housatonic. Paper presented at the “Mohican Seminar 2000: The Continuance”, An Algonquian Peoples Seminar, New York State Museum, Albany.

1999 Living in the Borderlands: Native American Communities of the Upper Housatonic During the Colonial Period. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, Connecticut.

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Christopher Donta publications

2005 The Neponset Site Locus 4: More Evidence of a Michaud-Neponset Phase Occupation. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 66(2): 76-87.

2003 The Oak Knoll Site: An Orient Campsite in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 64(2): 12-21.

2002 A Native American Archaeological Site in the Plymouth Commemorative Landscape. Northeast Anthropology 64: 31-42. [with Timothy Binzen]

1994 Continuity and Function in the Ceremonial Material Culture of the Koniag Eskimo. In Reckoning with the Dead: the Larsen Bay Repatriation and the Smithsonian Institution, pp. 122-136. Edited by Tamara L. Bray and Thomas W. Killion. Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

1993 Koniag Ceremonialism: An Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Analysis of Sociopolitical Complexity and Ritual Among the Pacific Eskimo. Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

1992 Incised Slate Images and the Development of Social and Political Complexity in South Alaska. In Ancient Images, Ancient Thought: The Archaeology of Ideology, edited by A. Sean Goldsmith, pp. 11-18. University of Calgary, Calgary. University of Calgary.

1988 Archaeological Indications of Evolving Social Complexity on Kodiak Island, Alaska. M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.

Christopher Donta professional meeting presentations

2005 Recent UMass Excavations Documenting the Michaud-Neponset Phase at the Neponset Site. Paper presented at the Massachusetts Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts.

2004 The Small Stemmed Tradition in the Taunton River Drainage of Southeastern Massachusetts. Paper presented at the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Robbins Museum, Middleboro, Massachusetts.

2003 Archaeology in Lakeville: Progress Report at the Riverside and Library Sites. Paper presented at the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Robbins Museum, Middleboro, Massachusetts.

1998 The Koniag Eskimo as a Different Kind of Yupik: the Evidence from Archaeological Masks. Paper presented at the 1998 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

1995 Alutiiq Incised Stones of Southern Alaska. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.

1992 Continuity and Function in the Ceremonial Material Culture of the Koniag Eskimo. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco.

1990 Incised Slate Images and the Development of Social and Political Complexity in South Alaska. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta, November, 1990.