SHA 2025 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Landscapes in Transition: Looking to the Past to Adapt to the Future
New Orleans, Louisiana | January 8-11, 2025
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 09/Jan/2025 | |||
| 7:30am - 5:30pm |
REG-3: SHA Registration Location: Preservation Hall Foyer |
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| 8:30am - 5:00pm |
BOOK 1: SHA Book Room Open Location: Bissonet |
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| 9:00am - 10:15am |
GEN-19 (T): Changing Environments in Southern New England Location: Studio 6 Chair: Carl G. Drexler, University of Arkansas Historic Foodways in New England Through the Lens of Archaeological Plant Remains 9:15am - 9:30am Rediscovering Indigenous Places in Colonial New England 9:30am - 9:45am The Edward James Farmstead Site - Examining a Nineteenth-Century Irish Immigrant Family Through Archival and Archaeological Data 9:45am - 10:00am The Old Brick School House: More than Meets the Eye 10:00am - 10:15am Where No Deetz Has Gone Before: New Archaeological Investigations at Parting Ways in Plymouth, Massachusetts |
GEN-20 (T/UW)): Gendered Perspectives: Exploring Women's Roles Globally Location: Studio 2 Chair: Hannah G Hoover, University of Michigan Maritime Matriarchs? Navigating Women's Work in Amsterdam's Private Shipyards 1600-1800 9:15am - 9:30am The Will to Adorn: Black Women and Sartorial Choice After Enslavement 9:30am - 9:45am From Straight Pins to Rosaries: A Discussion of Identity and Material Culture in a 16th Century Spanish Colonial Context 9:45am - 10:00am Rooting Power and Place: Yamasee Women in 18th Century South Carolina 10:00am - 10:15am From Common Recipes to Elite Cuisine: Food, Gender, Class, and Politics in Precolonial Dahomey |
SYM-141 (T): The Living and the Dead: New Interpretations of Above- and Below-Ground Cultural Historical Archaeology Location: Galerie 1 Chair: Harold Mytum, University of Liverpool Chair: Richard Veit, Monmouth University Discussant: Ian Kuijt, Univ. of Notre Dame “A Historic Place of Peace and Reflection”: A Critical Analysis of Digital Methods in the Recovery of Forgotten Black Cemeteries 9:15am - 9:30am Cast Iron Memories: Production and distribution of cast iron grave markers in Great Britain 9:30am - 9:45am Innocence and Remembrance: A Study of Children's Tombs in Portugal's Historic Cemeteries 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Temporal Tourists and the Colonization of Time: Spatiotemporal Identities in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century New Jersey |
| 9:00am - 10:45am |
SYM-309 (T/UW): Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk Location: Galerie 2 Chair: Nicole Bucchino Grinnan, University of West Florida Chair: Sarah E. Miller, Florida Public Archaeology Network Discussant: Meg Gaillard, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Community Conversations About Heritage At Risk (CCHAR): A Novel Approach To Engaging The Community In Climate Heritage Discussions 9:15am - 9:30am Coding Community Conversations: Qualitative Data Analysis in Heritage Research 9:30am - 9:45am Voices from Apalachicola: Practical Insights for Empowering Communities through CCHAR 9:45am - 10:00am Intersectional Heritage 10:00am - 10:15am Case Studies on Community Conversations at Risk from South Florida 10:15am - 10:45am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk: Perspectives from Northeast Florida |
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| 9:00am - 11:00am |
SYM-348 (T): In Times of War and Conflict: An Exploration of New Sites, Methodologies, and Interpretations at Sites of Conflict in the New England Region Location: Studio 10 Chair: David E. Leslie, TerraSearch Geophysical, LLC Chair: Brenna Pisanelli, Heritage Consultants, LLC 15min intro + 15min presentation The War of 1812 in Southeastern Connecticut: A view from Fort Decatur 9:30am - 9:45am Return to Acadia: Combined Geophysical Surveys of Fort Pentagoet 9:45am - 10:00am “…Doe forthwith repayre into good and sufficient garrisons” Conflict, Threat, and Gearing-up at the 17th-century Hollister Farm, South Glastonbury, Connecticut 10:00am - 10:15am The Battlefield Archaeology of King Philip’s (1675-1676) Wars: New Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership, Alliance Building, Strategies, and Sactics 10:15am - 10:30am An Implausible American Hero: Searching for the Grave of Adjutant William Campbell Using Ground Penetrating Radar 10:30am - 11:00am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Reanalyzing the Foodways of Fort Delaware |
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| 9:00am - 11:00am |
SYM-167 (T/UW): The Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Materials Location: Galerie 6 Chair: Chris Dostal, Texas A&M University Addressing Sodium Carbonate Precipitation on a Cannon from the Alamo 9:15am - 9:30am Are Digital 3D Tools Better Than Traditional Methods? New Perspectives on Approaching Maritime Archaeology 9:30am - 9:45am Underwater Archaeology, Conservation, and New Technologies: the Case of Contrecoeur Shipwreck 9:45am - 10:00am Experimental Conservation of Rubber Gaskets from the CSS Georgia 10:00am - 10:15am Exploring the Impacts of Dewatering a Colonial Fort 10:15am - 10:30am Update: Characteristics of Seventeen Cannon from the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), Savannah, Georgia. 10:30am - 11:00am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Conserving the H.L. Hunley submarine |
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| 9:00am - 11:15am |
GEN-09 (T): Consumer Choice and Economic Agency: Exploring Trade, Reuse, and Identity Location: Galerie 4 Chair: Margaret A Comer, University College London Consumer Choice in the Company Store: The Material Culture of Tenant Farmers with Insights from an 1873 Alachua County Store Ledger 9:15am - 9:30am Adaptive Economics to Environmental and Political Changes at the Musgrove Cowpens and Trading Post (9CH137) 9:30am - 9:45am Dress and Trade at Fort Ouiatenon and New France: Economic and Social Relations as Evidenced by Cloth Bale Seals 9:45am - 10:00am Idle Appalachia: Economic Agency in Appalachian Coal Towns 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Trading Pines for Wines: Consumer Ties Between the 20th-Century Arizona Timber and California Fruit-Packing Industries 10:30am - 10:45am The Intersections of Consumer Choice and Poverty Access in Healthcare: A View From Springfield, Illinois 10:45am - 11:00am Farm to Census Table: Expanding Interpretations of Farmsteads through Documentary Archaeology 11:00am - 11:15am Land, Labor, and Community Life at the Great Estate: The Archaeological Investigation of Hacienda del Rincón de Guadalupe, Mexico. |
SYM-115 (UW): The Ecology of Underwater Cultural Heritage: From Microbial Communities to Macrofauna Location: Studio 4 Chair: Melanie Damour, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Shipwreck Microbial Communities as Indicators of Environmental Impact from Oil Spills 9:15am - 9:30am How Deep-Sea Shipwreck Spatial Attributes Shape Benthic Microbiomes 9:30am - 9:45am From The Field To The Lab: Determining How Microbes Affect the Fate Of Shallow-Water Shipwrecks 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Microbial Influenced Corrosion on Accomac (1928-c.1973), A Freshwater, Ferrous-Hulled Shipwreck: Evaluation of Microbial Diversity and Composition in Mallows Bay, MD 10:15am - 10:30am El Eco a Sentinel from Indigenous Time to the Present 10:30am - 10:45am Shipwreck Ecology: A New Paradigm for the Analysis of the Formation of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes 10:45am - 11:00am Underwater Cultural Heritage is Integral to Marine Ecosystems 11:00am - 11:15am Maritime Heritage Ecology: Discussions, Challenges, and Incentives of Intercollaboration |
SYM-149 (T): Mission San Antonio de Valero and the Alamo – A Construction History from Mission to Military Fortress, Texas, United States Location: Studio 8 Chair: Rhiana D. Ward, Raba Kistner, Inc. Artifact Collection Processing and Analysis Methodology - Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project 9:15am - 9:30am Bioarchaeology of Mission San Antonio de Valero: Preliminary Results and Methodological Insights from the Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project 9:30am - 9:45am Conducting Archaeology in the Public Eye: Strategies, Logistics, and Lessons Learned – Alamo Public Archaeology 2006-2022 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Imagine the Plaza-abilities: An Exploration of Communal Space and Memory at Alamo Plaza 10:15am - 10:30am Mission San Antonio De Valero - Sixty-Nine Years Of Flexibility In Architectural Layout 10:30am - 10:45am Paleomagnetic Analysis Results for Alamo Plaza – Main Gate & Lunette Project 10:45am - 11:00am Preserve the Alamo: Objectives and Results of the Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project 11:00am - 11:15am Uncovering Historic Burial Types at the Alamo Church: Insights from 2019–2020 Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project at Mission San Antonio de Valero, Bexar County, Texas, USA |
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SYM-157 (T/UW): Bridging the Land and the Sea: Documenting and Assessing Climate Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Heritage Location: Studio 9 Chair: Allyson G Ropp, East Carolina University Bridging the Land and the Sea: North Carolina's ESHPF Hurricane Projects and Other Environmental Impacts 9:15am - 9:30am Foul weather friends and allies: Considering NC Coastal Cemetery Management 9:30am - 9:45am Porpoises and Probable Plots: NCOSA and the Search for a Submerged Cemetery 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Shifting Tides: Impacts of Coastal Terrain on Archaeological Survey Methods 10:15am - 10:30am Shoreline Change: Developing Predictive GIS Models 10:30am - 10:45am Shorescape Underwater 1 – Methods and Results 10:45am - 11:00am The Trolley Problem: Which Ones Do We Save? 11:00am - 11:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Time, Wind, and Waves: Protecting Coastal Heritage in North Carolina |
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| 9:00am - 11:45am |
SYM-291 (T): Comparative Colonialism: A View from English North America Location: Studio 7 Chair: Julia A King, St. Mary's College of Maryland Chair: Barbara J. Heath, University of Tennessee Discussant: Philip Levy, University of South Florida 15min intro + 15min presentation “The Prospects Of Obtaining Wealth With Ease”: Considering Native American Enslavement In The Archaeological Record At Drayton Hall. 9:30am - 9:45am Colonial Cattle Economies 9:45am - 10:00am Eurasian Grains, Labor, and the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Tracing Trade: A Documentary History of Three 17th-Century Sites in New England 10:30am - 10:45am Assessing Functional Variation in Colonoware Assemblages at an Inter-regional Scale 10:45am - 11:00am Portobago And St. Giles Kussoe: A Comparison Of Two Trading Posts, One From Virginia And The Other From Carolina 11:00am - 11:15am The Sacred is Secular: An Analysis of Jesuit Rings Recovered from Colonial Sites throughout the Eastern Woodlands 11:15am - 11:45am 15min presentation + 15min discussion From the Piedmont to the Lowcountry: An Empirical Comparison of Catawba-Made Pottery and “River Burnished” Colonowares in South Carolina |
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POS-01 (T/UW): Mapping Out the Past: People, Places, Commodities, and Stable Isotopes Location: Studio Foyer It’s All About the Angle: An Explanation of the Excavations of Structural Complex F at The West Shipyard/Vine Street Lot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Banalization in Maritime Heritage: The Case Study of S.S. Contra Costa. 3D Modeling of Northbend: A Hough Type Vessel Coastal Adaptations Implemented in Historic Chestnut Neck Organics from the 16th century Punta Espada Shipwreck in the Dominican Republic Look, A Shipwreck! Public Outreach In Maritime Archaeology Close-Combat Handheld Weapons On Ships: 1400 - 1600 C.E. The Battle of the Atlantic Research & Expedition Group: The First Decade Supporting Underwater Archaeology Opportunism on the Delaware: A Cottage Flint Tool Industry at the West Shipyard Site Picturing The Past: Using 3D Artifact Scans And Prints In Outreach |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
SYM-201 A (T): Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century, Pt 1 Location: Galerie 5 Chair: Kelly Britt, Brooklyn College Chair: Eleanor Breen, Alexandria Archaeology Chair: Sarah E Platt, College of Charleston Cities on the Move – An Introduction and Retrospective 9:15am - 9:30am Mapping the Old City; Searching for the 17th Century in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina 9:30am - 9:45am The Hamtramck Explorer: Mapping Community History and Archaeology in an Immigrant City 9:45am - 10:00am Edith and Mies: Archaeology and Architecture of Chicago and Its Environs 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break In the Eye of the Beholder: Thinking about "Cities" in the West 10:30am - 10:45am Every Step You Take: The Role of Postbellum Forced Labor in the Making of Southern Urban Landscapes 10:45am - 11:00am Introducing the Museum of Archaeology Ōtautahi: Challenges and Opportunities 11:00am - 11:15am Jewish Ritual Baths: The Challenge of 19th-Century Urban America 11:15am - 11:30am Breaking the Silence. Sex Workers in 19th and 20th-Century Detroit: Findings from the Femme Beings Project. 11:30am - 11:45am On Categories and Coaldealer Kin: Historical Bioarchaeology in Urban Spaces 11:45am - 12:00pm Digging Lowell: Immigrants, Urbanity, and Ethical Practice in an Industrial City |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
GEN-12 (T): Reconstructing Plantation Landscapes: Decolonization, Tenancy, and African American Communities in Virginia and Beyond Location: Studio 2 Chair: June F. Weber, New South Associates, Inc. Data Recovery Efforts at the Fennell Plantation on Redstone Arsenal: A Journey from Enslavement to Black Landownership 11:15am - 11:30am Decolonizing Plantation Frontiers: Discord Between Epistemological Foundations and Emerging Ethical Considerations at Sites of Enslavement. 11:30am - 11:45am Crushing Steps: Finding paths in broken artifacts at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Plantation 11:45am - 12:00pm From Family Operation to Centralization: A History of St. Rosalie Plantation from the Postbellum Era through the Early Twentieth Century |
SYM-152 A (T/UW): Early Spanish Florida 1513-1763 Location: Galerie 1 Chair: Judith A Bense, University of West Florida Discussant: Paul E Hoffman, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Discussant: Jeffrey M. Mitchem, Arkansas Archeological Survey (Emeritus) Archaeology of Anhaica: Soto’s First Winter Encampment 11:15am - 11:30am Disentangling Sixteenth-Century Spanish Entradas in Interior Alabama 11:30am - 11:45am The Luna Settlement: Investigating Spain’s First Multi-Year Foothold in Florida, 1559-1561 11:45am - 12:00pm Updates on the Maritime Archaeology of the 1559 Luna Shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay, Florida |
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
RL-2: Burial Grounds as Places to Interpret Heritage: Innovative Approaches Location: Riverview 1 Host: Harold Mytum, University of Liverpool This roundtable lunch is designed for those involved with historic burial grounds, and those interested in venues for heritage interpretation to come together and to consider innovative approaches. These can include standard tours (though what should be covered in these?), costumed interpreters, drama and music, and combining heritage interpretation with ecological management or using urban burial grounds as green spaces where the heritage awareness is a byproduct of increasing access. |
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
RL-1: Feminist Historical Archaeology Location: Riverview 1 Host: Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Oakland University Join the discussion about researching gender power dynamics in the past, and relationships in the present. |
RL-3: Community Archaeology Location: Riverview 1 Host: Alexandria Jones, Executive Director, Archaeology in the Community The roundtable will focus on various techniques for achieving a successful community archaeology project. Dr. Jones will share her approach, which involves using her research to advance the goals and heritage aspirations of the community. She will outline the essential skills needed to create, implement, and complete an effective community-supported project. While there's no one-size-fits-all formula for community projects, being prepared for potential challenges can make a difference. Join us for a meal and an engaging discussion about the exciting world of community archaeology! |
RL-4: Collections and Curation Location: Riverview 1 Hosts: Elizabeth Bollwerk, Thomas Jefferson Foundaton, Inc./DAACS and Katherine Sims, City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program The SHA Collections and Curation Program offers this roundtable as a forum for discussing current and ongoing issues surrounding the long-term care of collections, data generated by the work that we do, and how to encourage/facilitate Collections-Based Research. The discussion will be driven by participant concerns and topics. |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
LUNCH 1 |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
GEN-06 (T): Unveiling Urban Narratives: From Campus Garbology to Public Archaeology Location: Studio 10 Chair: Jessie Garland, Christchurch Archaeology Project A Liminal Campus Garbology of Sex, Drugs, and Cinnamon Rolls 1:45pm - 2:00pm Beyond the Acropolis: Building Public Archaeology in Nashville, Tennessee 2:00pm - 2:15pm Van McMurray Playground (16OR752): A Case Study of Urbanization in a New Orleans Neighborhood 2:15pm - 2:30pm The Same Old Rubbish: An Analysis of Local Variation Within the Global Material Culture of 19th Century Christchurch |
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GEN-02 (UW): All the Good Gris-Gris: Maritime Material Culture and Artifact Studies Location: Galerie 4 Chair: Sarah M Muckerheide, Indiana University Revisiting HMS Looe: Recent Investigation of a British Warship in the Florida Keys 1:45pm - 2:00pm Another Brick in the Wall: Analysis of a Ladrillo Scatter Near the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida 2:00pm - 2:15pm Ongoing Scientific Investigations on the Artifact Assemblage of the Punta Espada Mid-16th Century Merchant Shipwreck, Dominican Republic 2:15pm - 2:30pm Prosser Buttons in North American Archaeology 2:30pm - 2:45pm Stitching It Together (II): Sailmaking from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution, New Findings from The Historic Sail Research Project 2:45pm - 3:00pm Are You Always This Disarticulate? The Fundamental Disconnect of Interpreting the Fragments of the Route 35 Shipwreck |
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| 1:30pm - 3:15pm |
SYM-163 (T): The Plantation in the Right-of-Way: Data Recovery at St. Rosalie Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Location: Studio 4 Chair: Elizabeth L. Davoli, Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority "Eleven Leagues Below This City [of New Orleans]": The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 1:45pm - 2:00pm History and Archaeology of the St. Rosalie Plantation, from its Founding through Emancipation 2:00pm - 2:15pm Archaeology of the St. Rosalie Cabin Complex 2:15pm - 2:30pm A Sampling of Interesting Artifacts Recovered from St. Rosalie Plantation 2:30pm - 2:45pm Conjuration in the American South: An Investigation into Conjure Bottles Recovered from St. Rosalie Plantation, Site 16PL107 2:45pm - 3:00pm Navigating Food Choices in a Postbellum World: Faunal Remains from the St. Rosalie Plantation Tenant Community 3:00pm - 3:15pm Give a Dog a Bone? The Use of the Louisiana Search and Rescue Dog Team (LaSAR) at St. Rosalie Plantation |
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GEN-05 (UW): Maritime Lagniappe: Community-Engaged Research and Management Location: Studio 7 Chair: Madeline Roth, East Carolina University Culturally Relevant Frameworks for the Identification and Protection of Maritime Heritage of Guam and Northern Marianna Islands 1:45pm - 2:00pm Traditional Cultural Places Inventories and Monitoring: Expanding the Management Mindset 2:00pm - 2:15pm SeaTube and Video Annotations: Collaboration Tools for UCH Interpretation 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break Managing Iceland's Maritime Cultural Heritage: A Collaborative Plan For The Future 2:45pm - 3:00pm Interactive Website to Mitigate Damage to Shallow Fresh Water Shipwrecks 3:00pm - 3:15pm Exploring the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary at Scale |
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FOR-616 (T): Heritage Legislation for Our Time Location: Studio 8 Chair: Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting Heritage Legislation for Our Time |
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GEN-02 (T): From Maroon Colonoware to Chinese Diaspora: Exploring Domestic Ceramics and Material Culture in Global Contexts Location: Studio 6 Chair: James Meierhoff, University of Illinois at Chicago "Plundered & [not entirely] carried away": Coarse Earthenwares and Tobacco Pipes from the “Rebellion Pit” at Bacon’s Castle 1:45pm - 2:00pm Historic Tikal and its Final Ceramic Phase 2:00pm - 2:15pm Comparison of Ceramic Objects Excavated from Two Chinese Diaspora Occupations in Queensland, Australia. 2:15pm - 2:30pm Sanctified Spaces and Tableware: New Insights from Brook Farm Historic Site, a 19th to 20th Century Lutheran Orphanage in West Roxbury, Massachusetts 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Sherds of What Came Before: Ceramic Origins and Changed Meanings at the Brafferton Indian School 3:00pm - 3:15pm Below the Glaze: Absorbed Organic Residue Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Refined Earthenwares 3:15pm - 3:30pm An Island of Maroons: Overview of Current Research on Post-Self-Emancipation Homesteads on Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia 3:30pm - 3:45pm Búcarofagia: Preliminary Investigations on the Consumption of Tonalá Bruñida Ware 3:45pm - 4:00pm Smoking Culture in the Interior of West Africa: A Comparative Review |
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POS-02 (T): Mapping Out the Past: People, Places, Commodities, and Stable Isotopes Location: Studio Foyer Considering Early Chicago through a Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Horse Skeleton: A Historical Perspective From Riches to Ruin: The Delaware Mine's Compressor House GIS Analysis Of Maine’s Indigenous and European Settlements Throughout The Fur Trade Mapping Alfred Street: A Microcosm of Detroit’s Socio-economic Change Through Time From Turtle Soup to Turtle Ecology: Zooarchaeological, Isotopic, and ZooMS Perspectives on Human-Turtle Interactions in Historical New Orleans An Investigation of Daily Life and Trade Through Bottle Glass Mapping Reconstruction Era Economics: Employing XRF in An Analysis of 19th Century Stoneware Distribution The Lost Beads of the Lost Colony: LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Glass Beads from Roanoke Island Fifty Years of Historic-Period Archaeological Site Survey in Tennessee |
SYM-104 (T): Statuary and Memorial Commemoration of Minorities - Why They are Missing: Challenges and Controversies of Memory and Tradition Location: Studio 9 Chair: John Jameson, ICOMOS ICIP Chair: Sherene Baugher, Cornell University Not as Simple as Black and White: Chronicling the Commemorative Stories of Minorities in a New Era of Social Justice. 1:45pm - 2:00pm LGBTQ+ Statues, Monuments And Historical Markers 2:00pm - 2:15pm Responses To Narratives In Native American Statues 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break Monumentally Queer: Remembering LGBTQ+ Past, Present & Futures 2:45pm - 3:00pm Memorials and Memorialization of LGBTQ+ Women 3:00pm - 3:15pm Making the Pullman Porters Visible at Pullman National Historical Park 3:15pm - 3:30pm Mississippi Mud: Statues as Cementations of Legacy in the Magnolia State 3:30pm - 3:45pm Kehinde Wiley's 'Rumors of War' and Richmond's Monument Landscape 3:45pm - 4:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion A Monument to the Caste War: Exploring Maya Identities in the White City of Mérida, Yucatán, México. |
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SYM-201 B (T): Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century, Pt 2 Location: Galerie 5 Chair: Kelly Britt, Brooklyn College Chair: Eleanor Breen, Alexandria Archaeology Chair: Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University Conflict-Shaped Peace: Memorialscapes of Victory and Victimhood in Contemporary Belfast 1:45pm - 2:00pm Engaging Urban Audiences in Envisioning the Past 2:00pm - 2:15pm Definitional Confusion: The Many Meanings of Community-Engagement in Urban Spaces 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break Cultural Preservation through Placekeeping: Archaeological GIS and Descendant-led Efforts in the Tenth Street Historic District, Dallas, Texas 2:45pm - 3:00pm Lessons of Engagement – Reflections on a Caribbean Community Archaeology Program, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands 3:00pm - 3:15pm Updating Washington, DC’s Archaeology Guidelines 3:15pm - 3:30pm The Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Brown: Urban Archaeology on Contaminated Sites 3:30pm - 4:30pm 15min presentation + 45min discussion Heritage at Risk in Urban Environments: Integrating Municipal Archaeology into Flooding Mitigation Projects in the City of St. Augustine |
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SYM-152 B (T/UW): Early Spanish Florida 1513-1763 Location: Galerie 1 Chair: Judith A Bense, University of West Florida Discussant: Paul E Hoffman, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Discussant: Jeffrey M. Mitchem, Arkansas Archeological Survey (Emeritus) The Archaeology of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century San Agustin: The City’s First 135 Years 1:45pm - 2:00pm Household Archaeology at Fort San Antón de Carlos on Mound Key, Florida 2:00pm - 2:15pm Joara and Fort San Juan: Colonial Encounters at the Berry Site, North Carolina 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break Apalachee Province During The Mission Period 2:45pm - 3:00pm Town Plan at San Luis de Talimali 3:00pm - 3:15pm Excavations and Systematic Metal Detecting at Mission San Francisco de Potano: Results of the 2024 Field Season 3:15pm - 3:30pm Meanwhile in the Western Spanish Sea… Early French and Spanish Colonialism in Matagorda Bay, Texas, 1685-1726 3:30pm - 4:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Spanish West Florida: The Second Time Around 4:00pm - 4:15pm The Santa Rosa Island Shipwreck: A Spanish Colonial Vessel Revealed 4:15pm - 4:30pm Presidio San Miguel 4:30pm - 5:15pm 15min presentation + 30min discussion Comparative Commensality and the Colonial Consumption of Indigenous Serving Vessels in Early Spanish Florida |
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SYM-109 (T): Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition Location: Galerie 2 Chair: Travis G. Parno, Historic St. Mary's City Discussant: Julia A King, St. Mary's College of Maryland In Their Elements: Geometric Morphometrics, Stable Isotope Analysis, and Multispecies Theory in Chesapeake Zooarchaeology 1:45pm - 2:00pm They Looked to the Water: An Ancestor Forward Approach to Commemorating the Chancellor’s Point Burying Ground 2:00pm - 2:15pm An Investigation of the Spatial Arrangements of Early Enslavement: A Case Study from Flowerdew Hundred 2:15pm - 2:30pm Recreating forgotten sites of Jesuit enslavement at St. Inigoes 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Reproducible Methods for Linking Archaeological Contexts to Households at Monticello 3:00pm - 3:15pm “Old Doll Cannot Have Forgot”: What 250-year Old Bottled Fruit Can Tell us of Plantation Landscapes and the Making of an American Cuisine at George Washington’s Mount Vernon 3:15pm - 3:30pm Archaeology and the Challenge of Storytelling at George Washington Birthplace National Monument. 3:30pm - 3:45pm Beyond the Church: Rebuilding Trust with and within the First Baptist Church Descendant Community 3:45pm - 4:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Community as Client: A Descendant-Based Archaeological Research Approach at a Presidential Plantation Site 4:15pm - 4:30pm Foundations and Fieldwork: Completing the First Phase of the 1857 Slave Dwelling Restoration Project 4:30pm - 4:45pm An Object Biography of the 1857 Slave Dwelling at Poplar Forest 4:45pm - 5:00pm Over the Ridge and Through the Woods: Analyzing Intra-State Connections at the Buffalo Forge Iron Plantation 5:00pm - 5:30pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Witnesses of Wallsville: Documenting a Southern Maryland Rural Community |
SYM-125 (T): Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres Location: Galerie 6 Chair: Kimberly Kasper, SEARCH Inc. Chair: Katharine Reinhart, Archaeological & Historical Services, Inc. Chair: M. Claire Norton, National Park Service Discussant: Kimberly Smith, USDA NRCS Discussant: Jodi Skipper, The University of Mississippi Choose Your Own Adventure: Navigating Archaeological Career Trajectories in Different Employment Sectors 1:45pm - 2:00pm Across the Great Divide: The Relationship Between CRM and Academia In The Modern World 2:00pm - 2:15pm Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology Benchmarking Survey Project, 2024 2:15pm - 2:30pm From The Known To The Unknown: The Case For Mentorship In Advancing Archaeology Careers 2:30pm - 2:45pm There and Back Again: When the Archaeological Career Path Turns into a Journey 2:45pm - 3:00pm Economic, Social, And Political Landscapes In Transition: Collaborating Across Matrices To Sustain Anthropological Archaeology For The Future 3:00pm - 3:15pm Stretching the Envelope of Archaeology, from Museum Work to Women’s Studies 3:15pm - 3:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break Floors That Need Swept: Unexpected Opportunities and Unlikely Paths in Archaeology 3:45pm - 4:00pm Alternative Careers in Archaeology: Do They Exist? An Examination of Federal Curation and Museum Careers with an Archaeological Background 4:00pm - 4:15pm Research, Education, and Mitigation: Sometimes Successful Bedfellows 4:15pm - 4:30pm The City of Boston Archaeology Program: Community Empowerment at the Confluence of Urban Planning and Preservation 4:30pm - 5:30pm 15min presentation + 45min discussion Bridging Past and Present: Applying Archaeological Skills to Urban Planning |
SYM-234 (T/UW): A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission Location: Galerie 3 Chair: Katrina L. Bunyard, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Chair: Meghan M. Mumford, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency 15min intro + 15min presentation Start with Why: The Development of a Project-Based Approach at DPAA 2:00pm - 2:15pm The Partner Perspective: Collaborative Approaches to DPAA's Mission 2:15pm - 2:30pm Lost at Sea: Searching for World War II Casualties in Underwater Contexts 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Pushing The Boundaries Of Underwater Archaeology. Machine Learning, Deep Water Robotics And Bioinformatic. The Innovation Initiative Of The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. 3:00pm - 3:15pm Initial DPAA Underwater Investigation of the WWII Japanese Transport Vessel, Oryoku Maru 3:15pm - 3:30pm Risk and Resilience: The Underwater Archaeology Accounting Mission in the South Pacific 3:30pm - 3:45pm Underwater Forensic Archaeological Excavation of an Aircraft Wreck Site using Saturation Diving Capabilities 3:45pm - 4:00pm Solemn Solomons Cemeteries: WWII Burial Practices in the South Pacific 4:00pm - 4:30pm 15min presentation + 15min break Challenges and Opportunities for the Accounting Community on Tarawa Atoll 4:30pm - 4:45pm Optimizing Field Data Management for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Using ESRI's Field Maps Application 4:45pm - 5:00pm Changing Landscapes: Challenges and Approach to Investigating World War II Casualties in the Southwest Pacific 5:00pm - 5:15pm Salvaging in the South China and Java Seas 5:15pm - 5:30pm A Problem in Want of a Solution: A Systematic Pursuit of Innovation at DPAA |
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GEN-08 (T): Industrial Legacies and Metallurgical Histories: Exploring Canal Projects, Blacksmithing, and Environmental Impacts in Colonial and Southeastern Archaeology Location: Studio 10 Chair: Paul J White, University of Nevada, Reno The Columbia Barge Canal: Nineteenth Century Industrial Water Use in South Carolina 3:30pm - 3:45pm Beneath Still Waters: Charting the Hidden Landscapes of Gold Milling 3:45pm - 4:00pm “From Baden to New York: German Forty-Eighters Political Immigration and its Influence on Industry in Rural Nineteenth Century New York” 4:00pm - 4:15pm Blacksmithing at Fort Ouiatenon: A Preliminary Analysis of Metal Production During the French Fur Trade in Indiana 4:15pm - 4:30pm The First Forge of New-France: Metallurgical Activities in Cartier-Roberval Site (CeEu-4) (16th Century) 4:30pm - 4:45pm A Chip off the Old Brick: Investigating a Nineteenth-Century Brick Kiln in West Tennessee |
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GEN-16 (T): From Foodways to Flora: Exploring Zooarchaeology, Botanical Analysis, and African Diaspora in Urban and Coastal Archaeological Contexts Location: Galerie 4 Chair: Adam Fracchia, City of Nashville Fauna at the “Freedom Fort”: A Preliminary Zooarchaeological Analysis of Fort Mose, St. Augustine, Florida 4:00pm - 4:15pm Urban Foodways in a Multicultural Environment: Faunal Remains from Early 20th-Century Sites in Detroit, Michigan 4:15pm - 4:30pm Paracelsus Goes West: Medical European Alchemy and Indigenous Botanical Knowledge in 17th Century Colonial New England. 4:30pm - 4:45pm A Macrobotanical Analysis of 17th-Century Features from the Holister Site 4:45pm - 5:00pm Feast or Famine: Food (In)Security, Native Agency, and the California Missions |
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SYM-433 (T): The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Birthplace Location: Studio 4 Chair: Oluwabusayomi Felicia Odejide, Maryland Department of Transportation Chair: Aaron M. Levinthal, Maryland Department of Transportation Discussant: Douglas Armstrong, Syracuse University The Ben Ross Homeplace at Indian Landing: “Ten Acres of Land for and During of His Life Time, Peaceable to Remain…” 4:00pm - 4:15pm A Homeplace Behind Locked Doors: Artifact Analysis at the Ben Ross Homeplace Site 4:15pm - 4:30pm Archaeology of the Mysterious Thompson Quarter 4:30pm - 4:45pm Windows into Nineteenth Century Rural Chesapeake Foodways: Clues from the Ben Ross Homeplace and Thompson Quarter Sites, Dorchester County, Maryland 4:45pm - 5:00pm The Ben Ross Homeplace Virtual Museum: The Ethics, Challenges, and Benefits in Presenting Archaeological Collections in Cyberspace 5:00pm - 5:30pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Voices from the Past: Enriching the Record through the Malone’s Church Oral History Project |
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STUDENT RECEPTION Location: Riverview 1, 2 The Past Presidents’ Student Reception will take place on Thursday, January 9, 2025, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Students will have an opportunity to talk to senior professionals about a variety of career paths in historical archaeology. These career paths include: Academia; Private Sector Cultural Resource Management; Government Agencies; Museums and Collections; Public and Community Engagement; and Underwater Archaeology. |
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TICKETED RECEPTION: Dinner Jazz Cruise on the Steamboat Natchez Time: Boarding between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and return to dock at 9:00 p.m.
Cruise up and down the mighty Mississippi River into the heart of the signature culture and lifestyle of New Orleans and Louisiana aboard the Steamboat NATCHEZ. Enjoy the sounds of jazz and wonderful New Orleans cuisine prepared on board by Executive Chef, Edward Thel and his staff and served by a team of food service professionals.
This is the ninth steamer to bear the name NATCHEZ. Her predecessor, NATCHEZ II, raced the Robert E. Lee in the most famous steamboat race of all time. The NATCHEZ is proudly the undisputed champion of the Mississippi, never having been beaten – the best of her time! Her powerful antique steam engines were built in 1925 and are still on view today from the engine room. Her copper bell, inlaid with 250 silver dollar coins to produce a purer tone, once graced the SS JD Ayres. Her 32-note steam calliope was custom-crafted and modeled especially for the NATCHEZ. An evening... |
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