You might try the former President of the New England Gravestone Society, an 
archaeologist and professor on Long Island, Gaynell Stone, her MA on 
headstone preservation techniques, and whose headstone photo typology 
database she developed was apparently applied in NYC by the first NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Archaeologist, Sherene Baugher, Ph.D., 
(last I heard at Cornell U., landscape archaeology) who will be with other 
archaeologists at:

Long Island Archaeology: A Public Symposium On Recent Research
September 26, 2009

1-5 p.m.

Wang Center

Room 301

Stony Brook University

Come hear professional archaeologists speak about recent excavations and 
research on Long Island. Presentations will discuss both prehistoric and 
historical archaeology and include a screening of the film The Sugar 
Connection: Holland, Barbados, Shelter Island.


THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.


Presenters:

Daniel E. Mazeau, Daria E. Merwin, James Moore, Gaynell Stone, Christopher 
Matthews, Jenna Wallace Coplin, Allison Manfra, and David Bernstein.

Sponsors: 

Institute for Long Island Archaeology, Stony Brook University, Society for the 
Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, Center for Public Archaeology, 
Homeland Foundation & Hofstra University


For more information please contact:

Allison Manfra

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(631) 632-7618

or

Chris Matthews

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(516) 463-4093