{"id":179,"date":"2018-07-26T15:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/socialsci\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2023-01-20T22:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:38:01","slug":"sgarlata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/archaeology\/faculty\/sgarlata\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Cosimo Sgarlata (in memorium)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sgarlata graduated with his\u00a0 PhD in Archaeology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in February of 2009.\u00a0 In graduate school his focus was the analysis of lithic artifacts (stone tools), and his area of interest was the Northeastern United States.\u00a0 His dissertation was a study in the \u201cUpland Archaeology\u201d of West Rock Ridge in New Haven, Connecticut.\u00a0 Upland Archaeology augments studies of more typical focal areas such as coastlines and river valleys by finding out how information collected from higher elevations and inlands can fill in important details on the ways of life of ancient people.\u00a0 Published by in 2010, his dissertation was entitled The Upland Archaeology of West Rock Ridge in South-Central Connecticut: Narrow Stemmed Point Tradition Land-Use Intensification (VDM publishing).\u00a0<\/em>It focused on how higher population densities of Late Archaic mobile foragers forced more intense utilization of all the kinds of ecological environments available to them, including New Haven\u2019s rugged trap-rock ridges.<\/p>\n


\nDr. Cosimo Sgarlata<\/em><\/div>\n

Immediately after graduating Dr. Sgarlata joined the archaeological team at Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) and was hired as a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) consultant for the summer field school of 2009 at the Middle Encampment Revolutionary War site in Redding, Connecticut.\u00a0 At WCSU he continued to pursue his interest in Quantitative Research methods as well as GIS, teaching statistics and performing GIS research: he produced a predictive model for prehistoric archaeological resources working as an archaeological consultant for the town of Danbury.\u00a0 Dr. Sgarlata maintained the GIS database for WCSU\u2019s summer field school projects.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sgarlata returned to New Haven area and several WCSU students joined him in\u00a0 research at the Warner site, a very productive Late Archaic encampment securely dated to 4,600 years before present.\u00a0 Research involves the examination of spatial organization of activities at the site including resource processing, tool manufacturing, cooking, and site maintenance.\u00a0 Several lines of analysis are being pursued: 1) the spatial patterning of artifacts which where piece plotted and mapped, 2) 3D analysis of stratigraphic associations of artifacts below the plow zone, and 3) analysis of the organization of stone tool production.\u00a0 Data obtained from these analytical techniques are enabling a comprehensive interpretation of the ways of life of Late Archaic peoples of South-Central Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sgarlata passed in the spring of 2022 just as he was beginning his annual summer dig with WCSU students.\u00a0 At that time he was actively promoting archaeology in Connecticut and was\u00a0 the Treasurer of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, an organization which was promoted archaeological research and preservation in Connecticut for over 75 years.\u00a0 Cosimo was the recipient of the Lyent Russell award in 2009 for these contributions.\u00a0 He is deeply missed and we are fortunate that his contributions live on at WCSU and throughout the State of Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sgarlata graduated with his\u00a0 PhD in Archaeology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in February of 2009.\u00a0 In graduate school his focus was the analysis of lithic artifacts (stone tools), and his area …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":164,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"three-column.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/socialsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}