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).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 24th Apr 2026, 06:11:17am EDT
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Daily Overview |
| 7:30am - 1:00pm |
REG-5: SHA Registration Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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| 8:30am - 2:00pm |
BOOK 3: SHA Book Room Location: Ambassador 1 Hours: Thursday, January 8, 2026 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
SYM-125U: Investigations of 15th-16th century Shipwrecks in the Americas Location: Mackinac East Chair: Charles Beeker, Indiana University Bones Beneath Pensacola Bay 9:15am - 9:30am Ongoing Analysis of the Mid-16th Century Punta Espada Shipwreck’s Cargo Assemblage: International Commerce and Spanish Colonial Lifestyles 9:30am - 9:45am Layered Magnetic Signatures and Early Colonial Shipwrecks: A Multiscalar Approach 9:45am - 10:00am Investigating the Ceramic Assemblage from the Mid-16th Century Punta Espada Shipwreck, Dominican Republic 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion From Treasure Salvage to Living Museums in the Sea: A Model for Sustainable Underwater Cultural Resource Management |
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| 9:00am - 10:45am |
SYM-269T: Artifacts are Enough: Interpretative Approaches to Historic Material Culture Location: Brule A & B Chair: Richard Veit, Monmouth University “Though many have scarce raggs to covr their naked bodyes:” Utilizing Lead Cloth Seals to Interrogate Textile Importation, Use, and Maintenance at Jamestown, Virginia (1606-1630) 9:15am - 9:30am Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Gift and Commodity Exchange in the Golden Age of Piracy 9:30am - 9:45am Navigating Economic Uncertainty: Archaeological Evidence of Coin Counterfeiting in the British Virgin Islands 9:45am - 10:00am Dragons in America (Updated): Industry and Innovation in Edgefield, South Carolina 10:00am - 10:15am Gunflints Galore: An Antebellum Mystery on the Borderlands of Baton Rouge 10:15am - 10:30am Mobility at Different Scales – The Origins of Glass Containers from the Market Street Chinatown 10:30am - 10:45am The Material Culture Of Opiates in the 18th-20th Century Western World: An Overview |
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| 9:00am - 11:00am |
FOR-608U: Science in the Sanctuary: Protecting UCH in our Great Lakes National Marine Sanctuaries Location: Mackinac West Chair: Stephanie Gandulla, NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Science in the Sanctuary: Protecting UCH in our Great Lakes National Marine Sanctuaries |
GEN 17 T: Global Archaeology Location: Richard A & B Chair: Rachel J. Feit, Acacia Heritage Consulting This Artifact Contains Multitudes: Tracing Texas Globalism in the Early 19th Century 9:15am - 9:30am Contemporary Trash As An Artefact Of Globalization : The Island Of Barbuda As A Case Study 9:30am - 9:45am Restricted Access and Resistance: Heritage Preservation and Land Use in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break The Andaman Islands: A Spatial Fix In The Colonial Landscape Of 19th-Century South Asia 10:15am - 10:30am Japanese Diaspora in Indigenous Highland Taiwan: The Archaeology of Empire's Police Outposts 10:30am - 10:45am “Three Rows Of Barbed Wire”: Landscapes And Movement In The Soviet Gulags Of Kazakhstan 10:45am - 11:00am The Archaeology of Trans-Atlantic Trade in Peki, Southeastern Ghana |
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| 9:00am - 11:30am |
SYM-338T: Archaeology in the Public Realm: A Decade of Work at the Harlem African Burial Ground Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Elizabeth D. Meade, AKRF Chair: A. Michael Pappalardo, AKRF, Inc. The Archaeology of the Harlem African Burial Ground 9:15am - 9:45am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Documenting and Recocovering the Remains of the Harlem African Burial Ground 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Ancestral Remains at the East Harlem African Burial Ground 10:15am - 10:30am Field Methods for Archaeological Investigation in a Unique Urban Environment 10:30am - 10:45am Filling the Gaps: Impacts of Community-led Actions at Historic New York City Burial Grounds 10:45am - 11:30am 15min presentation + 30min discussion Teaching at the Intersection of Public and Community Archaeology: Building a Course around the Harlem African Burial Ground Education & Engagement RFP |
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| 9:00am - 11:45am |
POS-05 (T): Sensing Place Location: Renaissance Foyer Mapping a Religious Landscape: The Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Church, Hamtramck, Michigan Logging in the Northwoods: A view from the Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota The Archaeology of the Cactus Saloon of Tucson, Arizona, Separating Facts from Fiction Mindful Moments in Meaningful Places: Reclaiming Presence and Inviting Public Connection Through Nature Journaling Grounding in the Sensorium: Materiality as Anchor in Seas of Uncertainty Chain of Rocks Road: An Analysis of Place and Identity Along Route 66 Community Based Bioarchaeology: An Analysis of Impact |
SYM-138T: Deep Mapping and Archaeological Knowledge: Current and Emergent Approaches Location: Cabot Chair: Dan Trepal, Michigan Technological University Chair: Don Lafreniere, Michigan Technological University Discussant: Sarah F. Scarlett, Michigan Technological University 15min intro + 15min presentation NEH Community Deep Mapping Institute- Fostering the Next-Generation of Scholars and Public Professionals 9:30am - 9:45am Building Community Heritage Partnerships in Metro Detroit through Deep Mapping: The Hamtramck Explorer 9:45am - 10:00am Hidden Economies: A Spatial Analysis of Detroit’s Potomac Quarter by the Femme Beings Project 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Facilitating Public-Focused Integration of Cultural Heritage Data via the Spatial History of Charleston 10:30am - 10:45am Glacier, Prairie, Farm: A Start to the Deep Mapping of the Red River Valley 10:45am - 11:00am Counter-Cartographies of Pauliceia: Community Mapping of São Paulo's History 11:00am - 11:15am Reconceptualizing Digital and Spatial Sovereignty: The Role of Participatory and Alt GIS in Addressing Colonial Power Imbalances 11:15am - 11:45am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Mapping Midcentury Modern: Forest to Furniture in Sumter, South Carolina |
SYM-247T: Storied Landscapes: Co-Producing Meaningful Knowledge about Pasts, Presents, and Futures Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Meredith S. Chesson, University of Notre Dame Chair: Ian Kuijt, Univ. of Notre Dame Discussant: Stephen Silliman, University of Massachusetts Boston Discussant: Maria Franklin, University of Texas 15min presentation + 15min break “And Bless Each Door That Opens Wide to Stranger as to Kin”: Persistence on Two Irish Islands 9:30am - 9:45am The Muddy Middle: Contested and Multi-Faceted Stories of New Orleans’ Plantations 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Targeting Beauty: Storytelling, Memory Politics, and Ukrainian Culture Heritage 10:15am - 10:30am One Place, Innumerable Stories: Revitalizing Rural Lifeways in the Bova region of southern Calabria 10:30am - 10:45am A Regeneration Story: Weathering Storms on St. Croix, USVI 10:45am - 11:00am Multi-Modal Storytelling and Archaeological Imagination at Amache National Historic Site 11:00am - 11:45am 15min presentation + 30min discussion "Memory Against Forgetting”: An Archaeology of Relationships, Power, and Other Narratives |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
FOR-208T: Section 106 and a City on the Move: Archaeological Methodology in Detroit Location: Ontario West Chair: Samuel R. Burns, City of Detroit Section 106 and a City on the Move: Archaeological Methodology in Detroit |
SYM-310T: Unburying Black Towns: Archaeologies of Black Freedom, Erasure, and Mobility Across North America Location: Ontario East Chair: Nkem M. Ike, University of Toronto Discussant: Alicia D. Odewale, Archaeology Rewritten Global Landscapes of Emancipation: Concurrent Temporalities of Freedom Making 9:15am - 9:30am Unearthing Black Experience of Post-Transfer St Croix Through Displaced Archives 9:30am - 9:45am Group Fugitivity and Maritime Marronage: Navigating Rival Landscapes in Loyalist New Brunswick 9:45am - 10:00am Underground Landscapes: Black Deployment of the Landscape at Six Penny Creek in Nineteenth Century Southeastern Pennsylvania. 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break The Largest Plot: Oral Histories, Landscape Archaeology, and the Dan and Mamie Homesite 10:30am - 10:45am “I can’t even remember what was there:” Articulating the Life and Belongings of Bessie Black During the 1908 Springfield, Illinois Race Massacre 10:45am - 11:00am Outlaws and Protectors: Rewriting the Archaeology of Black Cowboys in the West 11:00am - 11:15am Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain. Black Geographies of the Bay Area 11:15am - 11:30am Striking for Freedom: Black Agency and Resistance in California’s Gold Rush at Negro Hill 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Exactly, what is a Town? Historical Archaeology of an African American WWII Military Camp in Alaska |
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| 10:00am - 4:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-7: Public Archaeology Day Location: Wayne State University, G.L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology Sponsored by the Michigan History Center and the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology Date: Saturday, January 10, 2026 |
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| 10:45am - 11:45am |
GEN 19 U: Underwater Archaeology at Lake Champlain Location: Mackinac East Chair: Carolyn Kennedy, Texas A&M University Accident Investigation 1776: Reconstructing the Movements of the American Gunboat New York 11:00am - 11:15am Designer Meet Archaeologist: Implementing Archaeology Into Museum Exhibit Design - Part 1 11:15am - 11:30am Living and Working on Phoenix II: Artifact Distribution and Spatial Organization on an Early 19th-Century Lake Champlain Steamboat 11:30am - 11:45am Climate Change and the Preservation of Freshwater Shipwrecks: A Convergence Workshop for Lake Champlain |
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| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
SYM-185T: Predicaments and Progress in Public Archaeology Location: Brule A & B Chair: Sara Ayers-Rigsby, Florida Public Archaeology Network Chair: Audrey B. Andrews, University of Nevada, Reno Why Is the Exhibit Closed?: NAGPRA and Public Archaeology 1:45pm - 2:00pm Protecting Tiipu Sonyahapu - Collaborative Heritage Preservation at the Place that Breathes and is Alive 2:00pm - 2:15pm Tulip Fever: Heritage, Hegemony, and Community in Holland, Michigan 2:15pm - 2:30pm Citizen Science and the Coastal Archaeology of Shell Middens in Ireland 2:30pm - 2:45pm One Goal, Under Dirt: A Guide to Archaeological Field Schools, Employment, and Career Building |
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| 1:30pm - 3:45pm |
SYM-114T: Decoding the Washington Landscape: Recent Research at George Washington Birthplace National Monument. Location: Mackinac West Chair: Kerry S. Gonzalez, National Park Service Discussant: Philip Levy, University of South Florida Discussant: Julia A. King, St. Mary's College of Maryland Results from a Multi-Disciplinary Survey at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument 1:45pm - 2:00pm Looking for George Washington’s Birthplace: Results of Building X Excavations 2:00pm - 2:15pm Unclassifiable? Hold my Ale: Making Metals Mean More at George Washington’s Birthplace 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min break A Pipe Stem Dating Approach to Interpreting the Washington Landscape at George Washington Birthplace National Monument 2:45pm - 3:00pm Rediscovering the Birthplace: Multidisciplinary Research at George Washington Birthplace National Monument 3:00pm - 3:45pm 15min presentation + 30min discussion The Mortal, Material, and Memorial: Reassessing the Washington Family Burial Ground |
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| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
GEN 16 T: The Archaeology of the Black American Experience Location: Ontario East Chair: Zoe I. Brown, The University of Akron Shaping Home in Unhomely Spaces: Ceramics, Homeplaces, and the Politics of Belonging on a Chesapeake Plantation 1:45pm - 2:00pm Domestic Spiritualities at Kingsley Plantation (1814-1839) 2:00pm - 2:15pm Defining Enslavement's Contributions to a University: The University of Maryland and The 1856 Project 2:15pm - 2:30pm Storage Space at the 1857 Slave Dwelling at Poplar Forest 2:30pm - 2:45pm Mapping Black Life through Imaginative Fabulation: A Comparison of Plantation Cartography and Artifact Distribution of Enslaved Laborers 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Just Below the Pasture Grass: The Surprising Discovery, Testing, and Data Recovery Excavations of the 1784–1940s McDowell-Gilbert Site (15Fa408) in Fayette County, Kentucky 3:15pm - 3:30pm Brown’s Farm: An Archaeological Investigation of an African American Farmstead in Cambria County, Pennsylvania 3:30pm - 3:45pm Understanding The Materiality Of Racial Uplift, Then And Now 3:45pm - 4:00pm Healthcare Access and Agency in Material Culture: Transitions in Louisville's West End, 1870-1915 4:00pm - 4:15pm Flowerpots and Ginger Ale: The Great Migration Heritage Hidden in a Metro Park 4:15pm - 4:30pm The Archaeology of a Black, Rural Residential Site |
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| 1:30pm - 4:45pm |
SYM-145U: 250 Years of U.S. Navy History Through the Lens of Maritime Archaeology Location: Mackinac East Chair: Alexis Catsambis, Naval History and Heritage Command Chair: George Schwarz, Naval History and Heritage Command I’ll Be Damned If I Strike. The Continuing Search for John Paul Jones’ Bonhomme Richard 1:45pm - 2:00pm The Philadelphia Gunboat Research Initiative 2:00pm - 2:15pm The Underwater Archaeology of the American Revolution on Lake Champlain 2:15pm - 2:30pm Submarine Archaeology: Exploring USS F-1 with HOV Alvin 2:30pm - 2:45pm The World War I Era Destroyer USS Jacob Jones: A New Chapter in its Story 2:45pm - 3:30pm 15min presentation + 30min discussion That Gallant Ship at 5200m: Exploring USS Yorktown (CV-5) 3:30pm - 3:45pm Training Wheels: Documenting U.S. Navy Carrier Qualification Aircraft Wrecks in Lake Michigan 3:45pm - 4:00pm Devastator Rising: A Legacy Renewed 4:00pm - 4:15pm From Pearl Harbor to the Plains: The USS Oklahoma Tripod Mast Column 4:15pm - 4:30pm A Snapshot in Time: Research and Conservation of a US Navy Aerial Camera 4:30pm - 4:45pm The New National Museum of the United States Navy: Showcasing 250 Years of Naval Heritage |
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| 1:30pm - 5:15pm |
SYM-107T: Mobility in French America Location: Ontario West Chair: Erika Hartley, Western Michigan University Chair: Andrew Beaupre, Maine State Museum Discussant: Michael S. Nassaney, Western Michigan University ‘How many French fammelyes are in & about…”: An Introduction to French Colonial Mobility in Maine 1:45pm - 2:00pm Fortified Storehouse of the Lake Champlain French Forts: Archaeological Insights into the Supply and Procurement System of Fort Saint-Jean (Site 40G) in the Mid-18th Century. 2:00pm - 2:15pm Fur, Farms, and Forts: Affordances and Limitations of Mobility in the Champlain Valley 2:15pm - 2:30pm Food to Go: Domesticated Animals at French Heritage Sites in the Pays d'en Haut and the Illinois Country 2:30pm - 2:45pm Historic Foodways at River Raisin: Reconstructing Animal Economies and Mobility through Faunal and Isotopic Analysis 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Weaving Connections: An Exploration of the Movement of Cloth and Relationships at Fort St. Joseph 3:15pm - 3:30pm The Mobility of Metals During the French Fur Trade: An Analysis of Blacksmithing at Fort Ouiatenon within the Economic Activity of 18th Century New France 3:30pm - 3:45pm Tracing Mobility in New France Through Musket Balls 3:45pm - 4:00pm Mobility of Things in French North America: Dating and Transporting Glass Fragments from the River Raisin Site 4:00pm - 4:15pm Fort Tombecbe (1736-1763) and the Path of the Choctaws 4:15pm - 4:30pm Paris-Cayenne: Ceramic Availability and Use Within the Plantation Context in French Guiana (Guyane) 4:30pm - 4:45pm On the Edge of Empire: Mobility, Trade, and Rewriting the Northern Plains 4:45pm - 5:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion The Decline of the Fur Trade in Michigan: Human-Environmental Interaction caused by Societal Change |
SYM-220T: Mobility, Borderlands, and the Commons: Archaeological Perspectives Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Jodi A. Barnes, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Chair: Kendy Altizer, University of North Georgia Edisto Village Mobility in the Early Colonial Era 1:45pm - 2:00pm Shared Edges: Glass Tools and the Making of a Material Commons in South Carolina 2:00pm - 2:15pm “...and for mending the Guns of some of the Chickasaw Indians”: Black Expertise and Indigenous Worlds at 87 Church Street, Charleston 2:15pm - 2:30pm Mobility and Mobilization of Freedom in Spanish St. Augustine 2:30pm - 2:45pm Borderlands and Frontiers: An Archaeology of Black Commons in the Nascent British Colony of Sierra Leone 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Life in a Borderland: Enslaved People of the Santee Delta 3:15pm - 3:30pm Using Survey-level Data to Trace the Development of South Carolina’s Early Colonial Plantation Landscape 3:30pm - 3:45pm Black Commons, frontiers, and mobility at Laurel Hill rice plantation, South Carolina 3:45pm - 4:00pm Remapping plantation ecologies on the North Santee: The Black Commons 4:00pm - 4:15pm The Black Commons and the Archaeology of Water Disaster 4:15pm - 4:30pm Desire Paths in the Black Metropolis 4:30pm - 4:45pm Cores and their Margins: Geoarchaeological Signatures of Localized Agro-Ecological Practice in Historic Rice Fields at Hobcaw Barony, South Carolina 4:45pm - 5:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Buttons, Bone Handles, and Borders: Negotiating Spaces of Enslavement on USC's Campus |
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| 1:45pm - 2:45pm |
GEN 18 T: The Archaeology of Cemeteries Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Melissa A. Timo, NC Office of State Archaeology “The Grateful Children:” The St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Project 2:00pm - 2:15pm Grave Mistakes: Investigating the Relocation of Kaskaskia’s 19th-Century Cemetery in Southern Illinois 2:15pm - 2:30pm Materializing Freedom: The Significance of Shoes in the Graves of African American Children in the Postbellum South 2:30pm - 2:45pm Grieving the Cemetery: Grief Support for Lost Landscapes |
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| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
GEN 08 T: Oral History and Community Memory Location: Brule A & B Chair: Eleanor Breen, Alexandria Archaeology Kaūmana Springs "Wilderness": Memory, Erasure, and Archaeology of a Forgotten Landscape in Hilo, Hawaiʻi 3:15pm - 3:30pm Back Buildings and Kitchen Dwellings: Fire Insurance Policies as Sources for Research and Preservation, Alexandria, VA 3:30pm - 3:45pm "I Was Told That's Where the Tavern Was": An Illinois Homestead at the Intersection of Oral History, Written Records, and Archaeology 3:45pm - 4:00pm Collaborative Archaeology and Community History in Brooklyn, Illinois 4:00pm - 4:15pm Layer of Abundant Meaning: A Multi-method Investigation of Community Formation and Memory in the Vineyard Highlands, Oak Bluffs, MA (1870-1960) |
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| 6:30pm - 9:30pm |
T-5: Detroit "Bar"chaeology with Mickey Lyons Time: 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. |
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