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The Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for the CNEHA Executive Board for the term starting October 2016 through October 2019. There are five positions available. You must be a member in good standing (individual, student, joint, fellow or life) and commit to assisting with the activities of the Board as well as attending at least […]

It is with sadness we report the passing of one of the founders of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology. Mr. Wallace (Wally) Workmaster passed away in earlier this year at the age of 82. Mr. Workmaster was one of the founding members of the Council and served as its first chair from 1974 to […]

The Executive Board has announced that as of March 2016, all issues of the CNEHA newsletter will be distributed electronically. Members will receive their copies via direct email. A members page is in the works that will allow those without email to access the newsletter through the website. CNEHA will continue to post pdfs of […]

Conference Abstracts The conference abstracts are now available for download.  2015 Conference Program Abstracts CNEHA Executive Board Election Paper ballots for the 2015 CNEHA Executive Board election have been sent to all members for whom we do not have email. Notification of online voting will be sent to all other members shortly. International Archaeology Day […]

The theme for this year’s conference, Recover, Restore and Remember, is a phrase designed to capture Fredericksburg’s history as a crossroads during numerous significant events in American history, most notably the Civil War. Individual papers and sessions, as well as posters, on this and other themes related to historical archaeology are welcome. The deadline for abstract […]

Individual articles from the journal Northeast Historical Archaeology can now be purchased through the CNEHA website. These are the most recent articles which have not yet been posted on the Open Repository at Binghamton University: State University of New York web site ( Open Repository at Binghamton). If you need an individual article or two, this […]

CNEHA is once again a collaborating organization for International Archaeology Day, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. We encourage our members to participate in local Archaeology Day activities. There is a new event this year. Inspired by March Madness, ArchaeoMadness is a competition that pits different archaeological sites against each other in a head-to-head competition between […]

New Sweden Conference Video Recordings The organizing committees of the 375th Anniversary New Sweden Conferences in Lund, Sweden – Encountering the Other, Understanding Oneself: Colonialism, Ethnic Diversity and Everyday Life in Early Modern Sweden and New Sweden, and the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA, Encountering ‘Others’ in the Atlantic World: Perspectives from the Material […]

CNEHA Annual Meeting 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. […]

Letter to Congress for Conservation from AVCRPC 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 […]