SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
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).
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Daily Overview |
| 7:30am - 5:30pm |
REG-4: SHA Registration Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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| 8:30am - 5:00pm |
BOOK 2: SHA Book Room Location: Ambassador 1 Hours: Thursday, January 8, 2026 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
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| 8:45am - 12:00pm |
SYM-121T: Revisiting the Archaeology of Borders Location: Ontario West Chair: Misty M. Jackson, Arbre Croche Cultural Resources LLC Chair: Mark L. Howe, International Boundary and Water Commission Discussant: Russell K. Skowronek, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
(Revisiting) the Archaeology of Borders: What the Material Culture of HIstoric Fort Wayne in Detroit Might Contribute to Border Theory 9:00am - 9:15am Unpacking Cuttatawomen: On The Edge Of The Virginia Algonquian Frontier 9:15am - 9:30am To Embrace Tobacco, or to "Desist from the Planting Thereof?" An Examination of Red Clay Tobacco Pipes in Colonial 17th-Century New England 9:30am - 9:45am Forts Along the Maumee River: A Synthesis of Sites in the Northwest Territory 9:45am - 10:00am Not Just the Fort: Expanding Local Narratives of Frontier Interactions in Umatilla County, Oregon 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break African Americans’ Great Migration Across The Mason-Dixon Line: An Historical Archaeological View From Chicago’s Black Metropolis 10:30am - 10:45am The Landscape Archaeology Of Borders And Social Justice In Detroit 10:45am - 11:00am Conservation by Ruination? Questioning The Archaeological Border Markers Of Heritage And Disaster Recovery in Ponce, Puerto Rico 11:00am - 11:15am The U.S. - Mexico Border – What The Border Wall Is Revealing 11:15am - 11:30am Working Across Borders: Indigenous Homelands and Ethical Practices in Archaeological Collections 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Compliance, Consultation, and Challenges in Customs and Border Protection |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
SYM-123U: Spotlight on Graduate Student Research: Symposium Sponsored by the ACUA Location: Mackinac East Chair: River A. Rivera, Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology Chair: Christina M. Giudici, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Viking Age Knarr Revisited: A study on cargo ship design and function in the Viking Age 9:15am - 9:30am Paleolandscape Research Proposal for the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf 9:30am - 9:45am Summer Subsistence Staples: Predicting Habitation Locations on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge via Catchment Analysis 9:45am - 10:00am The North Bend: A Hough Type Vessel |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
GEN 03 T: The Archaeology of Infrastructure Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Kathryn A. Cross, AR Consultants, Inc. Anatomy of a Railroad Through Cut Creation near Promontory, Utah 9:15am - 9:30am Lasers in the Dark: 3D Documentation of the Marshall Tunnel Canal, Botetourt County, VA 9:30am - 9:45am Excavating Incarcerated Labor on the Western North Carolina Railroad: Archaeology at the Cowee Tunnel Prison Labor Camp in Jackson County, NC 9:45am - 10:00am Landscape Transformations along Minnesota’s North Shore: Analysis from Split Rock Lighthouse 10:00am - 10:15am Wrecked Borders: Shipwrecks as Maritime Cultural Landscapes in Northern Michigan's Manitou Passage 10:15am - 10:30am Space Syntax Analysis, Community Circulation, and (Infra)Structural Violence in a Dallas Freedman’s Town |
GEN 13 T: Early Mobility Location: Richard A & B Chair: Laura M. Bossio, Central Michigan University Materializing Syncretic Practices in the Far Reaches of the Mongol Empire 9:15am - 9:30am Death and Ritual in the Northern Realms of the Mongol Empire 9:30am - 9:45am There Was Once a Road Through: An Analysis of the Landscape Influences on the Construction of Bog Roads in Western Ireland 9:45am - 10:00am Pre-European Habitation on the Falkland Islands Archipelago: Using Historical Data to Reverse Engineer the Past 10:00am - 10:15am Resilience and Tradition of Late Precontact Village Communities of the Lower Kihcikama: A Review and Analysis of Legacy Data from Taawaawa Siipiiwi (the Maumee River) 10:15am - 10:30am Proto-historic trade networks in southeast Michigan: roots of the furtrade in the Great Lakes Region |
SYM-129U: Lake Huron Red Tails: Archaeological Investigation of a Tuskegee Aircraft Wreck in Michigan Location: Mackinac West Chair: Wayne R. Lusardi, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Discussant: Wayne R. Lusardi, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Saving an Airacobra: Lt. Frank Moody’s Missing Aircraft 9:15am - 9:30am Bringing All Safely Ashore: Diving and Recovery of a Tuskegee Airplane 9:30am - 9:45am Photogrammetry as a Tool for 2D Documentation of Aviation Heritage: Case Studies from Michigan 9:45am - 10:00am “Torn, Scattered and Significant: Artifacts from a Tuskegee Airman’s Last Flight” 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Magnetic Signatures Of Submerged Aircraft: Examples And Discussion Of Recent Magnetometer Surveys On Submerged Aircraft Sites Around The World |
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| 9:00am - 11:00am |
FOR-546T: Taking a Byte Out of the Apple: Understanding Challenges and Approaches for Digital Data Stewardship Location: LaSalle A & B Chair: Lisa E. Fischer, Historic St. Mary's City Taking a Byte Out of the Apple: Understanding Challenges and Approaches for Digital Data Stewardship |
GEN 15 U: Methodology, Monitoring and Management Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Denise Jaffke, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. Keeping Brother Jonathan: Revisiting the California Gold Rush-Era Shipwreck 9:15am - 9:30am Developing Guidance for Underwater Archaeology in California 9:30am - 9:45am Modeling the Maritime Past: A GIS-Based Geomorphological Approach to Identifying Medieval Harbor Sites on the Porkkala Peninsula, Finland 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break I-POINT: An Overview of the Instability and Pollution Potential Mapping of Irish Shipwreck Sites for a National Risk Assessment Database Project 10:15am - 10:30am Uploading the Past into the Digital Universe: Photogrammetry and the Role of VR, AR, and NFTs in Archaeology 10:30am - 10:45am The World’s Smallest Museum: An Unreal Engine 5 Virtual Reality Museum 10:45am - 11:00am Maritime Archaeology In Motion: From Unknown Anomalies To 3D Models |
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| 9:00am - 11:30am |
SYM-345T: The Hassanamesit Woods Project: The Next Generation Location: Brule A & B Chair: Stephen Mrozowski, University of Massachusetts Boston Discussant: Stephen Mrozowski, University of Massachusetts Boston The Hassanamisco Nipmuc Landscape of Keith Hill, Grafton, Massachusetts 9:15am - 9:30am Land Use and Management through Palynology at Hassanamesit Woods 9:30am - 9:45am Micromorphology At The Augustus Salisbury and Deb Newman Sites 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break The Archaeology of the Betty Sampson/Deborah Newman Homesteads 10:15am - 10:30am Putting the Brakes on the Blackstone: Water Dispossession in 18th and 19th century Nipmuc Homelands 10:30am - 10:45am From Farm to Fable: Working Towards a Comprehensive History of New England Farmsteads 10:45am - 11:00am Baring the Sole of a Site: Shoemaking and Documentary Archaeology at the Hassanamesit Woods Augustus Salisbury Site, Grafton, MA 11:00am - 11:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Industrialization Uncorked: 19th-Century Working-Class Experiences at the Hassanamesit Woods Augustus Salisbury Site, Grafton, MA |
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| 9:00am - 11:45am |
POS-03 (T): Forts and Foodways Location: Renaissance Foyer "Visualizing the Past, Mapping the Present: Hands-On Learning and Art in Public Archaeology" More Than Broken Bottles: A Chemical Analysis of Container Glass Within Fort St Joseph The Furniture Tacks of Fort St. Joseph Sparking Connections: Gunflints At Fort St. Joseph History In Your Hands: Engaging In Public Outreach Through 3D Scanning And Printing The Mysterious Mobility of a Michigan Frit-Core Bead, Late 1500s through Early 1600s Tracing Historic Provisioning Through Faunal Butchery at River Raisin Yes We Can: A Tin Can Typology of a World War II Japanese American Incarceration Site The Cat(fish)’s Meow: Applying Size Estimation Methods To Archaeological Catfish From The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Red Drum And Red Lights: Analysis Of Archaeological Fish Remains From Storyville, New Orleans' Former Red Light District |
SYM-106T: Detroit Historical Archaeology Hustles Harder! Seven Decades of Archaeology in and of the Motor City Location: Cabot Chair: Samantha M. Ellens, Michigan State University The Detroit Remains Sites & Communities Seven Years Later: Successes, Failures, and Transformations 9:15am - 9:30am Foundations of a City: Archaeology Beneath Detroit’s Renaissance Center 9:30am - 9:45am Revealing an African American Neighborhood at Detroit's Campau Park 9:45am - 10:00am Preserve on Ash: children and domestic traditions in North Corktown, Detroit, ca. 1880–1980s 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Labor, Liquor, and Lodging: The Archaeology And Entrepreneurial Life Of A Woman-Owned Saloon And Boarding House In Early 20th-Century Hamtramck, Michigan 10:30am - 10:45am Just Trying to Make a Living. The Archaeology of a Red-Light District in Detroit: Findings from the Femme Beings Project 10:45am - 11:00am Industry in the 313: Industrial Archaeology and Heritage in Michigan (in around and beyond the D) 11:00am - 11:15am From Paradise Valley to Brewster-Douglass and Beyond: Race, Space, and the “Long 20th Century” in Detroit 11:15am - 11:30am From Terrain to Text: An Analysis of the State Historical Markers in Memphis and Detroit 11:30am - 11:45am The Past-Forward Project: Collaborative Archaeology, Heritage Preservation, an Industry Partnership in Response to Detroit's Community Benefits Ordinance |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
FOR-184T: Non-Invasive Methods for Identifying Subsurface Resources: Culturally Sensitive & Collaborative Approaches Location: Cartier Chair: Sarah L. Surface-Evans, Michigan State Historic Preservation Office Chair: E.W. Duane Quates, Q8s Geo Arc, LLC Non-Invasive Methods for Identifying Subsurface Resources: Culturally Sensitive & Collaborative Approaches |
SYM-141AT: Archaeologies of Black and Indigenous Sovereignty Part 1 Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew Reilly, City College of New York Chair: Madison Aubey, UCLA Discussant: Wade Campbell, Boston University Africatown, a Post-Apocalyptic Future Making Project 9:15am - 9:30am ‘Sovereignty’ in 18th c. Mexico 9:30am - 9:45am Back-to-Africa, Back 2 Barbados: Two Centuries of Experiments in Pan Africanism 9:45am - 10:00am On oral insistence: Relating Indigenous Data Sovereignty through Dialogue in Mi'kma'ki 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Meet Me at the Baobab: Heritage Trees as Markers of Black Sovereignty and Ancestral Connection 10:30am - 11:00am 15min presentation + 15min break Science Fiction, Sovereignty and Archaeologies of Life Otherwise 11:00am - 11:15am Negotiating Indigenous Cultural Heritage Resource Sovereignty 11:15am - 11:30am Back to Africa: the Remains of the Black Star Line 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Slippery Commodities: Eel Fishing, Race, and the Pursuit of Profit in Northeast America's Waterways |
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| 10:45am - 11:45am |
GEN 12 U: More Archaeology of WWII in the Pacific Location: Mackinac West Chair: Matthew Carter, Inkfish Mapping the Gaps: Large-Scale Photogrammetric Survey of WWII-Era Wrecks in the Pacific 11:00am - 11:15am Exploring Connection through Art: Preliminary Research into the USS Yorktown's (CV-5) Map Mural 11:15am - 11:30am ‘Is That A Car?!’: An Automobile Discovery at 5200 Meters on USS Yorktown 11:30am - 11:45am Paint Preservation and Deterioration of Deep Submergence WWII US Navy Shipwrecks |
GEN 14 T: The Archaeology of Gendered Spaces Location: Richard A & B Chair: Chelsea Rose, Southern Oregon University Dwelling in Transition: Gendered Space in Native American Cabins 11:00am - 11:15am Trash, Power, and Performance: Gender Archaeology and Household Consumption in the Early 20th Century Urbanizing South 11:15am - 11:30am Into the Trees: Hidden Domestic Labor at an Early 20th Century Oregon Lumber Camp 11:30am - 11:45am The Ilha dos Inocentes: historical archaeology of gendered landscapes on the border of Fordlândia, Pará, Brazil |
SYM-200U: Archaeology of the Brunswick Town Waterfront Location: Mackinac East Chair: Jeremy R. Borrelli, East Carolina University On the Water's Edge: An Overview of the Brunswick Town Colonial Waterfront Project 11:00am - 11:15am Viewing the Land from the Sea: Preliminary Investigations of Brunswick Town’s Southern Waterfront Structures 11:15am - 11:30am On The Shoulders of Giants: Using Stanley South’s Typological Methodologies to Analyze a Colonial Wharf 11:30am - 11:45am Fortunate Timing: Discovery, Recovery, and Preliminary Analysis of an Unidentified Shipwreck at Brunswick Town |
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
RL-4: Reforming an Urban Archaeology Network #1 Location: Michelangelo Hosts: Urban Archaeology Working Group: Kelly Britt, CUNY - Brooklyn College; Eleanor Breen, City Archaeologist at City of Alexandria, Virginia; Sarah Platt, College of Charleston; and Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University |
RL-5: Reforming an Urban Archaeology Network #2 Location: Michelangelo Hosts: Urban Archaeology Working Group: Kelly Britt, CUNY - Brooklyn College; Eleanor Breen, City Archaeologist at City of Alexandria, Virginia; Sarah Platt, College of Charleston; and Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University |
RL-6: Funding on Fire: Finding Support for Marginalized Archaeologies Under Threat Location: Michelangelo Host: Alicia Odewale, Archaeology Rewritten, 2026 Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow, National Geographic Explorer |
RL-7: Collections and Curation Location: Michelangelo Host: Elizabeth Bollwerk, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc./DAACS Sponsor: SHA Collections and Curation Committee |
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SYM-420T: Twenty Years and Counting: Michigan State University's Campus Archaeology Program Location: Brule A & B Chair: Stacey L. Camp, Michigan State University Discussant: Stacey L. Camp, Michigan State University 15min intro + 15min presentation Michigan State at Mid-century: Developing Approaches to the Postwar Campus 2:00pm - 2:15pm X-Radiography and Its Applicability to MSU's Campus Archaeology Program 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion On Solid Foundations: Excavations, Outreach, and Collaboration at Michigan State College's First Observatory |
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GEN 06 T: The Wonderful World of Ceramics Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Rebekah L. Planto, William & Mary “Over the Water against James City”: Domestic Coarsewares from Bacon’s Castle, Surry County, VA, ca. 1670-1750 1:45pm - 2:00pm Coarse Earthenwares From The Kitchen Workyard At George Washington's Mount Vernon 2:00pm - 2:15pm Plain Ware, Practical Ideals: Redware Production and Quaker Identity at the Starbuck Farmstead 2:15pm - 2:30pm Quiet Resistance: Redware, Religion, and Rural Identity at the Tichenor-Mulford Farmstead 2:30pm - 2:45pm All Buttoned Up: Yankee Ingenuity at the Solomon Day Pottery in Norwalk, Connecticut 2:45pm - 3:00pm Tonalá Bruñida Ware: Economic and Geophagic Consumption |
GEN 07 T: The Archaeology of Soldiers Location: Richard A & B Chair: Ericha E. Sappington, The University of Idaho Three Seasons of Excavation at the James and Sarah Arnold Mansion in New Bedford, Massachusetts (2023-25) 1:45pm - 2:00pm From Earthworks and Moats to Palisades, Stockades and a White Picket Fence: Historical Archaeology at the Site of Fort Gratiot, Michigan 2:00pm - 2:15pm Who is Buried at Kellogg's Grove? A Black Hawk War Mystery 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break “Indians and Negroes, with a slight sprinkling of white troops”: balancing Civil War agency at Honey Springs, Oklahoma 2:45pm - 3:00pm “Under Circumstances of Great Privations...”: Performative Acts of Class, Gentility, and Domesticity at Fort Walla Walla, Washington |
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| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
FOR-477T: Challenging the Dismantling of Preservation Laws Through Collective Action: A Participatory Forum Location: Cabot Chair: Ellen L. Chapman, Cultural Heritage Partners Chair: Marion F. Werkheiser, Cultural Heritage Partners Challenging the Dismantling of Preservation Laws Through Collective Action: A Participatory Forum |
FOR-493T: In the Trenches Beyond the Shoreline - Confronting Climate Change and Heritage Preservation Location: Ontario West Chair: Andrew J. Robinson, State Historical Society of North Dakota Chair: Steven J. Filoromo, TRC Environmental Corporation In the Trenches Beyond the Shoreline - Confronting Climate Change and Heritage Preservation |
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| 1:30pm - 3:45pm |
SYM-117T: Digital Historical Archaeological Data Location: LaSalle A & B Chair: Paulina F. Przystupa, The Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context Discussant: James A. Davenport, University of Missouri Map Out the Plan: Enhancing Archaeological Project Communication Through ArcGIS Experience Builder 1:45pm - 2:00pm Using Open-Source Mapping Software (Leaflet) for Research and Public Education 2:00pm - 2:15pm StoryMap of the Disappeared Students from Huamanga (Ayacucho, Peru) 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break Rural Stakeholders, Data Access, and Community Interest at Frost Town, New York 2:45pm - 3:00pm Immersive Material Culture: 3D and XR for Meaningful Community Engagement 3:00pm - 3:15pm Meeting Teachers Where They Are With Digital Historical Archaeological Research 3:15pm - 3:45pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion AI2: Mobilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications for Archaeological Instruction |
SYM-207T: Understanding the Overseer Location: Mackinac West Chair: Terry P. Brock, Wake Forest University Discussant: Alison Bell, Washington and Lee University Tangilble Domination: The Material World of the Overseer Class in Colonial Jamiaca 1:45pm - 2:00pm Washington’s Discontent: Examining the Social Lives of Union Farm’s Overseers 2:00pm - 2:15pm Demarcating the Color Line: White Employees and the Boundaries of Race at Belle Grove Plantation 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break “An Envious Heart Makes a Treacherous Ear”: Overseer's Housing as Negotiated Space in a Plantation Surveillance Landscape 2:45pm - 3:00pm “Who Do We Have Here?”: Deducing an Overseer’s Occupation at the Oval Site 3:00pm - 3:15pm “To finish the Overseers Room”: A Material Culture Analysis of the 19th Century Overseer Site 3:15pm - 3:45pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion The Home Farm Survey: Understanding the Changing Landscape of Control at Montpelier’s Home Farm |
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| 1:30pm - 4:15pm |
POS-04 (T): Race, Indigeneity, and Chinatowns Location: Renaissance Foyer Sponsored in part by the Society of Black Archaeologists In Perpetuity: Memories, Stories, and the Material Culture of the Jackson’s Wall site, Grand Cayman The John ‘Jack’ Hopkins House: Excavating the African Diaspora in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Comparing Enslaved and Free Gullah/Geechee Human-Ecosystem Dynamics on the Georgia Coast via Multi-Method Archaeometric Analyses of Oyster Shell Analyzing Soil Chemistry Using LIBS At Belle Grove Plantation's Enslaved Quartering SIte Becoming Black Texan: Mapping Rural Diaspora Space in Central Texas Allotments as Resistance: Documenting Wichita Allotted Lands in Oklahoma Using 19th Century Newspapers to Understand Racialization of Indigenous Communities in Medina County, TX Resettlement, Relocation, and Resurgence: Detroit’s Chinatowns from the 1870s through the 1990s Documentary Archaeology of Distributed Chinatowns in the American Southwest and Deep South |
SYM-198T: Animal Stories: Multispecies Narratives in Zooarchaeology Location: Cartier Chair: Haylee M. Backs, Boston University Chair: Valerie MJ Hall, University of Maryland College Park Defining Kinship in the "Capitalocene": Exploring More-Than-Human Approaches in Theory and Practice 1:45pm - 2:00pm The Original Landscapers: How Fur Bearer Habitat Construction Influenced Human Settlement in New England 2:00pm - 2:15pm “My bantams have grown prodigiously and are beautifull”: The Role of Birds on Virginia Plantations 2:15pm - 2:30pm Dogs & Dead Horses: An Unusual Entanglement 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Ghosts in the Bridle: Reclaiming Horse Histories in the Motor City 3:00pm - 3:15pm Enduring Mainland-Island Connections: The Journey of Jaguar and Puma Tooth Pendants from Terra Firma to a Caribbean Island 3:15pm - 3:30pm Learning From Zoo Bears: The Past and Future of Polar Bear Hybrids 3:30pm - 3:45pm The Zoo in Tübingen (1907–1914): Colonial Longings in the South German Hinterlands 3:45pm - 4:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Transforming Zooarchaeology: Implementing Protocols of Care for Other-Than-Humans |
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| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
FOR-315T: Archaeology with and of Music—A Forum Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University Archaeology with and of Music—A Forum |
SYM-141BT: Archaeologies of Black and Indigenous Sovereignty Part 2 Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew Reilly, City College of New York Chair: Madison Aubey, UCLA Discussant: François G. Richard, University of Chicago Liberian Sovereignty and the Stuff of Statecraft 1:45pm - 2:00pm Epistemic Dispossession, Epistemic Repair: Anthropology’s Role in Rewriting the Archive 2:00pm - 2:30pm 15min presentation + 15min break On the Road to Rebellion: Insurrectionist Infrastructures and the Pursuit of Sovereignty among Southern Yukatek Maya 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Belongings and Place: Relational Sovereignty Beyond the Nation-State 3:00pm - 3:15pm Indigenous Sovereignty and ‘Creole’ Indigeneity: Myth, Politics of Recognition, and Liberatory Futures on the Sierra Leone Peninsula 3:15pm - 3:30pm Sovereignty & Black Cemeteries 3:30pm - 3:45pm Coastal Convergences: Oyster Use and the Politics of Placemaking at Fort Mose 3:45pm - 4:00pm Subsistence Sovereignty: Land And Food In/Securities In Wai‘tu kubuli 4:00pm - 4:30pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Reclaiming Stewardship: Community-Rooted Heritage Management in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Shadow of Colonial Extraction |
SYM-166T: Doomed to Repeat?: Excavating Contemporary Issues in 20th Century Contexts Location: Mackinac East Chair: Katrina C. L. Eichner, University of Idaho Make the Frontier Great Again: Contested Heritage, Place-Making, and Nostalgia Tourism at Fort Davis, Texas 1:45pm - 2:00pm Life in “Hell Valley”: Comparing 20th Century Honouliuli Guards with 21st Century ICE Agents 2:00pm - 2:15pm Tonics, Cures, and Fake News: Contemporary Reflections of Public Health 2:15pm - 2:30pm Producing Meaning: Interrogating Systems of Waste and Wasting 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break From the Invention of Special Education to #StopTheShock: Grappling with Eugenic Histories, Presents, and Futures in Massachusetts 3:00pm - 3:15pm Idaho Public Archaeology – Assessing a Decade of Sharing Archaeology with the Public 3:15pm - 3:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break We Lived in Old Town, or Heritage at the Crossroads of Mexican and European Migration in Texas 3:45pm - 4:00pm Forever and Always: Archaeological Perspectives on Postbellum Southern Incarceration as Population Control 4:00pm - 4:30pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion The same, but different: Inter-cultural Healing and Landscapes of Repair at the Amache and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Sites |
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ACUA MTG: ACUA Open Meeting Location: Columbus |
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| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
SYM-318T: Revisiting the Old Socorro Mission State Historic Site, Socorro, Texas Location: Brule A & B Chair: Bradford M. Jones, Texas Historical Commission Discussant: Rick Quezada, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo 15min intro + 15min presentation Excavating the Archives: An Examination of the Historiography of Old Socorro Mission, Texas 3:30pm - 3:45pm Archeological Investigations and Future Direction at the Old Socorro Mission 3:45pm - 4:00pm Reexamining Socorro Mission Through Faunal Analysis and Interpretation 4:00pm - 4:30pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Some If by Land, None If by Sea? A Comparative Look at Imported Pottery from the Old Socorro Mission State Historic Site |
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| 3:15pm - 4:30pm |
GEN 04 T: Life in an Industrial Setting Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Christopher G. LaMack, University of Pennsylvania "Equal, Perhaps Superior To, Any Powder in the World": The Madras Gunpowder Factory and the Colonial Explosives Industry in 19th Century Southern India 3:30pm - 3:45pm Layers of Labor: Compositional and Metallurgic Differentiation of Metal Artifacts at a Historic Louisiana Sugar Plantation 3:45pm - 4:00pm Play, Work, and Identity: The Archaeology of Childhood in 19th-Century New Almaden 4:00pm - 4:15pm Uncovering Assaying and Domestic Life at the Boise Assay Office: A Pillar of the Industry That Forged the State of Idaho 4:15pm - 4:30pm Plains, Trains, and Mining Cart Wheels: Industrial Ruralism and Mobility in the Sulcis Plain, Sardinia |
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| 3:15pm - 4:45pm |
GEN 02 T: New Lands, New People Location: Richard A & B Chair: Albert Dudley Gardner, Western Anthropological And Archaeological Researc Continuing Investigations at Mission San Francisco de Potano in La Florida 3:30pm - 3:45pm The Search for Mission Santa Clara de Tupiqui: The Archaeology of a 17th Century Spanish Mission on the Georgia Coast 3:45pm - 4:00pm Investigating Relationships Between Creole and Indigenous Heritage in Coastal Alabama 4:00pm - 4:15pm American Settlers in the Caddo World: Landscapes of Antebellum Colonial Expansion in the Pre-Removal Period 4:15pm - 4:30pm Seeking A Home: The Archaeology of German Immigrant Farms in Southwestern Illinois 4:30pm - 4:45pm Assessing Integrity of Setting and Place at Historic Sites: Challenges in Urban Excavations Using the Case Studies of a Chinatown Excavation and a Hispanic Barrio Survey |
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| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
SHA MTG: SHA Business Meeting Location: Columbus The SHA will hold its annual Business Meeting on Friday, January 9, 2026 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Join the SHA Board and congratulate the winners of the Robert L. Schuyler Student Travel Awards, the Ed and Judy Jelks Student Travel Award, the Harriet Tubman Student Travel Grant, the ACUA George Fischer Student Travel Award, the ACUA and Recon Offshore Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Travel Conference Award, the GMAC Diversity Field School Competition, the Jamie Chad Brandon Student Paper Prize, the 2026 Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award, and the ACUA Annual Photo Competition. |
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| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
SBA MTG: Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) Meeting Location: LaSalle A & B |
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| 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-4: Pre-Awards Banquet Cocktail Hour Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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| 7:30pm - 8:30pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-5: SHA Awards Banquet Location: Ambassador 2 & 3 Cost: $70.00 per person Choice of entrée: Chicken or Braised Beef Short Ribs or Better Made Crusted Cauliflower Steak (vegan/gluten-free) |
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| 8:30pm - 11:59pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-6: SHA Awards Ceremony and Dance Location: Ambassador 2 & 3 Cost: No fee for conference registrants; cash bar. |
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