Early Military Sites Archaeology in New York State: An

Military sites archaeology in New York State originated in the early 20th century with the pio-neering work of William Calver and Reginald Bolton, working through the auspices of The New-York His-torical Society. One of their youngest associates was Richard J. Koke who later assembled many of their arti-cles into the seminal volume, History Written with Pick and Shovel. Koke was one of the best military sites archaeologists of his day and has a superb recollection of what it was like to conduct archaeology in the 1930s. This article presents some of Koke's memories, based on two interviews conducted with him in 1998. Examples of subsequent military sites archaeology in New York State are then presented so that the reader may compare early research endeavors with the development of modern historical archaeology as a more problem-oriented discipline. L'archeologie des sites militaires dans l'Etat de New York a pris naissances au milieu du XXe siec/e avec les trauaux pionniers de William Carver et de Reginald Bolton realises sous les auspices de Ia Societe historique de New York. Un de leurs plus jeunes associes a ete Richard J. Koke qui a reuni plusieurs de leurs articles dans /e volume intitule, History Written with Pick and Shovel. Koke a ete rm des meilleurs archeologues de sites mlitaires de son temps et possede un sr~perbe souvenir de cc que c'etait que d