Jonathan C. Lothrop received his graduate training in anthropology at Binghamton University.  While there, he collaborated on Paleoindian site excavations in New York for his dissertation, receiving his Ph.D. in 1988. From 1988 to 2007, he worked in cultural resource management, directing survey, testing, and data recovery excavations on Native American archaeological sites from the Ohio Valley to New England. In 2008, Dr. Lothrop joined the New York State Museum as Curator of Archaeology to oversee the Indigenous archaeology collectionsand engage in public outreach and education activities. Since joining the Museum, Jon has built on earlyPaleoindian research by former state archaeologists Bill Ritchie and Bob Funk, recording site and artifact finds as part of the New York Paleoindian Database Project. During this time, he’s also been fortunate to collaborate withprofessional archaeologists and earth scientists at the NYSM and other institutions, and with avocationalarchaeologists across the state to help shed new…