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, 08:55:14am CDT
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Location: Studio 6 Capacity 80 |
| Date: Wednesday, 08/Jan/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
WKS-1: Practical Aspects of Bioarchaeology and Human Skeletal Analysis Location: Studio 6 Instructors: Thomas A. Crist, Ph.D. (Utica University) and Kimberly A. Morrell (AECOM) This workshop introduces participants to the practical aspects of locating, excavating, storing, and analyzing human remains from historic-period graves. It also will address the appropriate role of historical archaeologists in forensic investigations and mass fatality incidents. Participants will also learn about the basic analytical techniques that forensic anthropologists use to determine demographic profiles and recognize pathologic lessons and evidence of trauma. |
| Date: Thursday, 09/Jan/2025 | |
| 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 |
| 1:30pm - 4:00pm |
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 |
| Date: Friday, 10/Jan/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 11:30am |
SYM-168 (T): Deviations: Archaeologies of Sexuality Beyond the Heteronormative Location: Studio 6 Chair: Jennifer A. Lupu, Rhodes College Discussant: Jennifer A. Lupu, Rhodes College Othering Spaces: The Creation of “Deviant” Community Spaces in 19th- and Early-20th Century Brothels in Central City, CO 9:15am - 9:30am “Queer People Anywhere are Responsible for Queer People Everywhere”: Incorporating a Queer Ethic of Care into Queer-Community Archaeology 9:30am - 9:45am A queer phenomenology of the penis: Disorienting Sex and Gender in Maya Archaeology 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break The Queering of the Brothel Space through Personal Adornment 10:15am - 10:30am Queerness and Blackness: Reimagining Bioarchaeological Paradigms 10:30am - 10:45am Decoding the Sepulchral Closet: Reading Between the Lines of Heteronormativity in Graveyards 10:45am - 11:00am Sexualities and Textualities: An Archaeological Perspective 11:00am - 11:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion A “Lost and Found Culture:” An Ethnographic Archaeology of 20th and 21st Century Queerness in Oklahoma |
| Date: Saturday, 11/Jan/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 11:15am |
SYM-430 (T): Community Engaged Historical Archaeology in the Northwest Location: Studio 6 Chair: Mark S. Warner, University of Idaho Discussant: Bonnie J. Clark, University of Denver Using Curation and Curriculum to Mitigate Echoes of American Imperialism in Central Oregon 9:15am - 9:30am Reaching the Public vs. Connecting with the Public: Tailoring Public Archaeology’s Scope to Best Communicate with Communities 9:30am - 9:45am A Glass Act: Unearthing the Past at the Pon Yam House 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Creating Chinese American Teaching Trunks 10:15am - 10:30am Exploring the Foodways of a Community in Northern Idaho 10:30am - 10:45am Exploring Health Practices in Moscow, Idaho at the Turn of the 20th Century 10:45am - 11:15am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Community Foundations: Public Archaeology and Digital Interpretation at Moscow High School in Moscow, Idaho |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
GEN-03 (T): Forging New Paths: Blacksmiths, Community Archaeology, and Curation Alternatives Location: Studio 6 Chair: Alexandra G. Martin, Strawbery Banke Museum Second Life Materials: The Historical Archaeology of a Family Blacksmith Shop in Montour Valley, Idaho 1:45pm - 2:00pm 20th Century Black History of Strawbery Banke Museum: Creating a Furnishing Plan 2:00pm - 2:15pm Omigosh, It Spins! Adapting Innovating Strategies in Archaeology and Design Thinking for the Future of Archaeological Pedagogy and Artifact Management. 2:15pm - 2:30pm Grace Under Fire: Electrical Fire at the Montpelier Archaeology Lab 2:30pm - 2:45pm Long Term-Impacts and Ongoing Reflections: Reviewing Belonging-Centered Emotive Dialogue to Address Visitor Experiences of Guilt 2:45pm - 3:00pm Portraying Holocaust Perpetration, Collaboration, and Victimhood in Memorial Museums in Estonia and Latvia |
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