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
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 16th May 2025, 03:44:47am CDT
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Location: Studio 4 Capacity 70 |
| Date: Wednesday, 08/Jan/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 11:30am |
WKS-4: Historical Plastics in the Archaeological Record Location: Studio 4 Instructors: Kimberly Wooten and Julia Huddleson, California Department of Transportation, Cultural Studies Office This workshop will give an overview of the history and development of plastics, followed by hands-on training with plastic artifacts from the early 1900s through the modern era, with a focus on domestiic sites. |
| 1:30pm - 4:00pm |
WKS-7: Historic Plastics in the Archaeological Record - PM Session Location: Studio 4 Instructors: Kimberly Wooten and Julia Huddleson, California Department of Transportation, Cultural Studies Office This workshop will give an overview of the history and development of plastics, followed by hands-on training with plastic artifacts from the early 1900s through the modern era, with a focus on domestic sites. Minimum of 8 participants. |
| Date: Thursday, 09/Jan/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 11:15am |
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 |
| 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 |
| 3:45pm - 5:30pm |
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 |
| Date: Friday, 10/Jan/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 11:30am |
SYM-393 (T): “A Little Grass and Earth Thrown in to fill up the Grave”: Archaeological studies of American War for Independence burial spaces Location: Studio 4 Chair: Wade P Catts, South River Heritage Consulting Chair: Thomas A. Crist, Utica University Discussant: Douglas D. Scott, Colorado Mesa University Ambush at Fort Laurens: Consequences of the American Colonial Western Expansion in Ohio 9:15am - 9:30am “The campaign in Canada has been, beyond a doubt, exceedingly severe; the retreat from thence distressful, and attended with a variety of calamitous circumstances” * The Courtland Street Burying Ground. Lake George, NY, the General Hospital at Fort George, and the Quebec Campaign of 1775-1776.* Major General Horatio Gates to General George Washington, 7 August 1776 9:30am - 9:45am Bioarchaeology of a Hospital Cemetery from the American Revolution: The Courtland Street Burying Ground, Lake George, New York 9:45am - 10:00am "Living Their Enemies; Dying Their Guests": Four Potential Revolutionary War burials from Ridgefield, CT 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break The Role(s) of Bioarchaeology in Connecting Biology, Life History, Context, and Narrative: a Case Study from 18th Century Ridgefield, Connecticut 10:30am - 10:45am “The Next Day The Whole Regiment Was Employed … In Digging A Trench And Burying The Dead”: Historical Archaeology Of A Burial Space At Red Bank Battlefield, Gloucester County, New Jersey 10:45am - 11:00am Conflict Bioarchaeology: Analysis of Probable Hessian Soldiers’ Remains from the Revolutionary War Battlefield at Red Bank, New Jersey 11:00am - 11:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion “Death Rode on Every Volley”: How the Discovery of a Mass Hessian Burial Offers Interpretive Opportunities and Challenges at Red Bank Battlefield Park |
| 1:30pm - 3:15pm |
SYM-277 (T): At the Intersections of History: Collaborative, Public Archaeology along the Chisholm Trail in Bolivar, Texas Location: Studio 4 Chair: Alexander G. Menaker, Stantec Discussant: William H. Clark, Stantec, Inc. Discussant: Rebekah M. Dobrasko, TxDOT Discussant: Maria Franklin, University of Texas TxDOT and the Bolivar Archaeological Project: Collaborative Archaeology in North Texas 1:45pm - 2:00pm History of Bolivar and the Tom Cook Family 2:00pm - 2:15pm More Than a Pile of Iron Scraps: Understanding The Archaeology of Blacksmith Shops 2:15pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 45min discussion The Undertold Stories of African American Blacksmiths in Texas and the Role of Collaborative Archaeology in the Rediscovery of Tom Cook |
| Date: Saturday, 11/Jan/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
SYM-314 (T): Landscapes of Black and Indigenous Legacies of Resistance, Human Rights, and Archaeology in Latin America Location: Studio 4 Chair: Génesis I. Delgado, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social Discussant: Marianne Sallum, Federal University of São Paulo/University of Lisbon 15min intro + 15min presentation Two Decades of Struggle and Revitalization of the Pantheon of Afro-descendant Ancestors "Garden of Memory Martina Carrillo" (Valle del Chota, Carchi-Ecuador) 9:30am - 9:45am Contributions From the Afro-Choteño Ancestral Territory to Rethink Archaeology, Heritage and Safeguarding 9:45am - 10:00am Cultural Heritage, Human Rights, and Social Movements: An Insight into three Latin-American Archaeological Contexts 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Shaping time by hand: Ceramic production in an Afro-descendant community in Northern Colombia. |
| 1:30pm - 3:15pm |
SYM-296 (T): Come, Tell Us How You Lived: 50 Years of Research at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland Location: Studio 4 Chair: Elizabeth A Comer, EAC/Archaeology, Inc. Discussant: Hess L. Stinson, Chesapeake Conjure Society The Kids are Alright: The Experiences of Children in Catoctin Furnace, ca. 1776 - 1910 1:45pm - 2:00pm Devil in the Details: Social Drugs Among the Workers at Catoctin Furnace 2:00pm - 2:15pm Using DNA To Connect Living People To Enslaved Ironworkers At Catoctin Furnace 2:15pm - 2:30pm Food In The Furnace 2:30pm - 2:45pm Painted, Printed, Preserved: A Comparative Analysis of Historical Ceramics in a Nineteenth-century Company Town 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion The Tree-Ring Dating of Ironworkers’ Houses at Catoctin Furnace |
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