January 2013

The 2013 New Sweden 375th Anniversary Conference will take place from Nov. 8 to 10, 2013 at the University of Delaware’s Clayton Hall in Newark, Del. with a live video-feed of concurrent sessions at the University of Lund in Sweden. Entitled “Encountering ‘Others’ in the Atlantic World: Perspectives from the Material World,” the conference is an international forum on comparative colonialism that will also serve as the annual meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology and the New Sweden History Conference.

October 2012

At the CNEHA 2012 Annual Meeting Patricia Sutherland presented her research regarding the possibility of another North American Viking settlement on Baffin Island based on her field excavations. The National Geographic article by Heather Pringle notes that Sutherland announced her findings at the CNEHA 2012 Annual Meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland.
» National Geographic.com

Responses to controversial television programs, like American Digger on Spike TV and Diggers on the National Geographic Channel, that sensationalize metal detecting and the for-profit exploitation of historic material culture were discussed at the CNEHA 2012 Annual Meeting.
» Summary of Brainstorming Session CNEHA 2012 Annual Meeting
» Survey: Responses to Digging in America

The Archaeological Institute of America has announced that the second National Archaeology Day will be held on October 20, 2012.
» Archaeological Institute of America.org

June 2012

Letter to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, regarding proposed budget cuts and layoffs of key professionals at Parks Canada. Canadian members please consider contacting your local representatives and newspapers.
» Letter to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

February 2012

CNEHA responds to programming debuts on Spike TV and National Geographic that encourage looting, profiteering, and the destruction of our archaeological heritage.
» Letter to Kevin Kay, President of Spike TV
» Letter to the National Geographic Society

January 2012

CNEHA endorses comments and recommended updates submitted by the New York Archaeological Council regarding the draft permitting process for hydraulic fracturing in the State of New York.
» CNEHA Letter (pdf)
» New York Archaeological Council.org
» New York Archaeological Council Letter (pdf)

CNEHA board members attend a hearing at the Massachusetts State House on January 24, 2012, to voice opposition to a proposed bill that would limit the oversight authority of the Massachusetts Historical Commission. A letter opposing the proposed legislation was submitted in November, 2011.
» CNEHA Letter (pdf)

October 2011

CNEHA signed on to a letter sponsored by America’s Voice for Conservation, Recreation and Preservation Coalition and signed by more than 1,000 organizations asking Congress to increase funding for conservation, historic preservation, and outdoor recreation. A letter was issued on February 9, 2012, by the National Trust for Historic Preservation announcing the success of this initiative.
» CNEHA Final Coalition Letter (pdf)

National Archaeology Day, October 22, 2011. CNEHA co-sponsored the first-ever National Archaeology Day and marked the occasion at the annual meeting in Utica.
» Archaeological Institute of America.org

July 2011

CNEHA has submitted a letter of recommendation on behalf of the Historical Society of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown for an NEH grant proposal that would provide funding to archive and curate the Requa Archaeological Collection, and to make the contents of that collection available online for researchers. The Requa Collection includes material culture from and archaeological documentation for the only intact archaeological example of a tenant site from New York's Manorial Period (1664-1775).

CNEHA voices opposition to proposed job cuts at the New York State Museum, including the positions of the State Archaeologist and Director of the Cultural Resource Survey Program, the Curator of Archaeology, and the Curator of Historical Archaeology.
» NYSM Layoffs (pdf)