As part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, Saratoga National Historical Park will also be offering a series of contributing author lectures. The latest event will be on Saturday, October 22nd, at the Saratoga Town Hall (12 Spring St. Schuylerville, NY) at 1:00pm - Archaeologists Michael Rogers and Scott Stull will be discussing the British Surrender and the Aftermath of the Battles.
The Saratoga Campaign: Uncovering an Embattled Landscape
A new book was recently released on the archaeology of the world-changing Battles of Saratoga -The Saratoga Campaign: Uncovering an Embattled Landscape, edited by National Park Service Archaeologist Dr. Bill Griswold and Dr. Donald Linebaugh of the University of Maryland. The book provides a new and greatly expanded understanding of the battles of Saratoga by drawing on the work of scholars in a broad range of academic disciplines.
As part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, Saratoga National Historical Park will also be offering a series of contributing author lectures. The latest event will be on Saturday, October 22nd, at the Saratoga Town Hall (12 Spring St. Schuylerville, NY) at 1:00pm - Archaeologists Michael Rogers and Scott Stull will be discussing the British Surrender and the Aftermath of the Battles.
The book presents new scholarship on the Saratoga Battlefield, with a special focus on archaeology and the contributions of those archaeologists who have investigated key areas of the battlefield. The Saratoga Campaign: Uncovering an Embattled Landscape is an original and multifaceted contribution to our understanding of this critical event in America’s birth. While the focus of the book is on the battles that took place in September and October 1777 at Saratoga, the volume also presents some of the rich history of the region both before and after the Revolutionary War.
Stull, Rogers, and Batruch '08 published their work at finding Fort Hardy in the journal Northeast Anthropology:
Stull, S., M. Rogers, and N. Batruch. 2013. Finding Fort Hardy: Combining Documentary Research, Remote Sensing, and Excavation to Locate a French and Indian War Fort.Northeast Anthropology. No. 79-80, pp. 125–143.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20161022201446214