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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Agenda Overview |
| 3:00pm - 6:00pm |
REG-1: SHA Registration Location: Ambassador Foyer |
| 7:30am - 9:00pm |
REG-2: SHA Registration Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
WKS-5: Reconstructing Past Life from Bones: Introduction to Skeletal Pathology and Trauma Recognition Location: Cadillac A Instructor: Jaymelee J. Kim, PhD, RPA, D-ABFA, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University |
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| 9:00am - 1:00pm |
WKS-2: Water, Water, Everywhere: Hey, What's That In The Drink?: Submerged Cultural Resources Awareness Workshop Location: Marquette B Instructors: Kendra Kennedy, RPA (Wisconsin Historical Society); Garry Momber (Maritime Archaeology Trust), Joseph Grinnan (AECOM) |
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| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
SHA BOARD MTG: SHA Board of Directors Meeting Location: Joliet A & B |
WKS-4: Archaeological Illustration Location: LaSalle B Instructor: Jack Scott, Jack Scott Archaeological Illustration |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm |
WKS-7A: Conservation Challenges in Archaeological Collections: A Practical Workshop Location: Detroit Institute of Arts Instructors: Christina Bisulca and Liz Homberger, Conservation Department, Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| 10:00am - 5:00pm |
BOOK: Book Room: Exhibitor Set-Up Location: Ambassador 1 |
T-2: Detroit Military History Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 |
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| 12:00pm - 4:30pm |
T-3: Detroit Music Heritage Time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
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| 12:00pm - 5:00pm |
T-1: Paris of the Midwest Tour Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 |
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| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
T-4: Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Detroit Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
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| 1:00pm - 4:00pm |
FOR-409U: Government Maritime Managers Meeting: Batten Down the Hatches Location: Duluth A & B Chair: Kendra A. Kennedy, Wisconsin Historical Society Chair: Amy Borgens, Texas Historical Commission Chair: Christopher P. Morris, EHP Government Maritime Managers Meeting: Batten Down the Hatches |
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| 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
WKS-1: Historic Button Identification Location: Marquette A Instructor: Lindsay Bloch, Tempered Archaeological Services, LLC |
WKS-3: Everything You Wanted to Know about Archaeometry but Were Afraid to Ask: Tips and Guidelines for Collaborating with the Archaeometry Lab at MURR Location: LaSalle A Instructors: Matthew C. Greer (Southern Illinois University), Whitney A. Goodwin (University of Missouri Research Reactor), James A. Davenport (University of Missouri Research Reactor), Alejandro J. Figueroa (University of Missouri), Brandi L. MacDonald (University of Missouri Research Reactor), Virginie Renson (University of Missouri Research Reactor), Chad Rankle (University of California, San Diego), Wesley D. Stoner (University of Missouri Research Reactor), Jeffrey R. Ferguson (University of Missouri Research Reactor) |
WKS-6: An Archaeology of Firearms and Ammunition Components Location: Cadillac A Instructor: Douglas D. Scott, Applied Anthropology and Geography Program, Colorado Mesa University |
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
WKS-7B: Conservation Challenges in Archaeological Collections: A Practical Workshop Location: Detroit Institute of Arts Instructors: Christina Bisulca and Liz Homberger, Conservation Department, Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| 6:00pm - 6:30pm |
WELCOME: Welcome and Awards Ceremony Location: Columbus Join us Wednesday evening for the opening session of the SHA 2026 Conference for presentation of the Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award, the James Deetz Book Award, and the SHA Awards of Merit. |
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| 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
PLENARY: Celebrating Michigan Archaeology: Tales of Innovation, Movement, and Mobility Location: Columbus Plenary speakers will introduce a range of archaeological projects and community-involved initiatives in Michigan, from the decades-long excavations at Fort Michilimackinac to the recent restoration project at the one-time home of Malcolm X, highlighting connections with the conference theme of mobility. |
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| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-1: Opening Reception Location: Renaissance Foyer Following the Plenary Session, meet up with old friends and make new ones at the Opening Reception. Complimentary appetizers and a cash bar. |
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| 7:30am - 5:30pm |
REG-3: SHA Registration Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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| 8:30am - 5:00pm |
BOOK 1: 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 - 10:15am |
GEN 01 T: Drink and Foodways Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Christopher P. Barton, Chronicle Heritage 15min presentation + 15min break Florida Oranges and Other Meats: Correspondence, Competitions and Political Legitimacy in the Cuisines of British Colonialism 9:30am - 9:45am Distilling Traditions and Afro-Andean Spirits: The Hacienda La Ventilla Distillery 9:45am - 10:00am Collection and Utilization of Freshwater Mussels at River Raisin 10:00am - 10:15am “Mr. Peanut Goes to War”: The Archaeology of Peanut Butter and Class |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
GEN 11 U: Underwater Archaeology in the Southeast Location: Mackinac West Chair: Allyson G. Ropp, East Carolina University How Stable is a Wooden Shipwreck? Assessing the Cultural Transformations of Change 9:15am - 9:30am Sacre Coeur: Archaeological Reassessment of John’s Island Wreck 9:30am - 9:45am Shoals and Shipwrecks: Archaeological Explorations off Port Royal Sound, South Carolina 9:45am - 10:00am Adapting to a Shifting Shoreline: Remote Sensing and Archaeological Documentation of a Hurricane-Exposed Shipwreck 10:00am - 10:15am A Comparative Analysis of the Savannah Cannon Cluster Site (9CH1552) to Surviving 18th–19th Century Cannons in the Northeastern United States 10:15am - 10:30am The 2024-2025 Archaeological Investigation of the Tolomato Bar Anchorage, the Working Waterfront of Grant’s Villa (British Plantation 1768-1783) and Minorcan Farmsteads (1783-ca. 1850s) |
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| 9:00am - 11:00am |
FOR-413U: The Future of Deepwater Archaeology: Emerging Technology and Innovations Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Anne Nunn, Henry Jackson Foundation Chair: Hannah P. Fleming, HJF supporting DPAA The Future of Deepwater Archaeology: Emerging Technology and Innovations |
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| 9:00am - 11:15am |
GEN 10 U: Underwater Archaeology in the Great Lakes and Beyond Location: Mackinac East Chair: Ben Ford, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Launch Party: The Maritime History and Archaeology of Small Gasoline Boats in the Upper Great Lakes 9:15am - 9:30am Follow the Fish: The Evolution of Gill-net Fish Tugs on the Great Lakes 9:30am - 9:45am New Research on the Submerged Early Holocene Occupation of Lake Huron 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Blue Collars and Green Gold: Rivers, Industrialization, and the Wage-Labor Economy 10:15am - 10:30am Gridlocked On The Great Lakes: The Wreck Of The Freighter John N Glidden 10:30am - 10:45am Citizen Scientists on the Great Lakes: A Tale of Lake Eire 10:45am - 11:00am Lake Erie Submerged Landscape Survey, 2024 and 2025 Results 11:00am - 11:15am Contrecoeur Unidentified Submerged Structure: Something’s Fishy? |
SYM-113T: The Potteries: The Heritage, Archaeology, and History of Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry Location: Cartier Chair: Alasdair Brooks, Re-Form Heritage Discussant: Teresita Majewski, Statistical Research, Inc. An Introduction to the Heritage and Archaeology of Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry 9:15am - 9:30am The Archaeology of Stoke-on-Trent’s Ceramics Industry – an Overview 9:30am - 9:45am Bethesda Methodist Chapel, Hanley – Cathedral of The Potteries 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break 'Smaller and Finer Things': Collecting Practices at the V&A Wedgwood Collection 10:15am - 10:30am Scotland's Ghost Industry: Shared Clay Stories, Global Trade and Intercultural Connections Made Through Industrial Pottery Manufacture. 10:30am - 11:15am 15min presentation + 30min discussion Staffordshire in America—A View from 19th-Century Baltimore |
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| 9:00am - 11:45am |
POS-01 (T/UW): Technological Applications in Archaeology Location: Renaissance Foyer Cost Effective Side-Scan Sonar System: Can Professionals Tell The Difference? Buttoned Up in History: Comparing Elemental Composition of Copper Alloy Buttons from Frederick County, Virginia The Application of X-Ray Fluorescence on Enchanted Castle House and Germanna Ceramics Discover Old D'Hanis: Reflecting on Movement of the the Virtual Archaeology Game (from Unity to Unreal, from University to Community, from NOLA to Detroit) Ground Penetrating Radar and Historical Archaeology at the Lake George Battlefield State Park, New York Patterns of GPR Data for Burials from the Middle of the 20th Century of Children Under 4.5 years of Age Memento Mori: Teaching Historical Funerary Practices Through the Re-creation of Victorian Era Postmortem Photography Comparison of Methods for Estimating Ancestry of an Early Christian-Era Burial from Menorca, Spain A Case of Probable Coxa Profunda from 6-8th Century Menorca, Spain Benzene: Historical Use and Abuse |
SYM-124T: Camp Nelson, Civil War Depot and Emancipation Center for Kentucky Location: Richard A & B Chair: W. Stephen McBride, Greenbrier Valley Archaeology Discussant: William B. Lees, University of West Florida (retired) 15min intro + 15min presentation Camp Nelson, KY: More than a Civil War U.S. Army Depot 9:30am - 9:45am “Everyone of my children wears a Silver Dime…to keep off the Witches Spell”: Archaeology of Camp Nelson’s Refugee Camp 9:45am - 10:00am History and Archaeology at the Camp Nelson Home for Colored Refugees, Camp Nelson, Kentucky 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Searching for Simpsonville: Collaborative Efforts to Locate a Civil War Mass Grave through Oral History, Archival Research, and Remote Sensing 10:30am - 10:45am The Camp Nelson Military Prison: Archaeological and Historical Insights into a Civil War Detention Facility 10:45am - 11:00am Animal Remains from the William Berkeley Sutler's Store at the Camp Nelson Civil War Depot (15JS78) 11:00am - 11:15am Beans for Breakfast: Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Camp Nelson 11:15am - 11:45am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Geophysical Investigations at Camp Nelson: Past Accomplishments and Future Potential |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
FOR-109T: Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 1 Location: Ontario West Chair: Michael S. Nassaney, Western Michigan University Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 1 |
FOR-363T: “What Produced This Feeling?" Marking The Passing Of Mark Leone And His Contributions To Archaeology Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew M. Palus, University of Maryland Chair: Christopher N. Matthews, Montclair State University “What Produced This Feeling?" Marking The Passing Of Mark Leone And His Contributions To Archaeology |
SYM-163T: Remaking the City: Archaeology, Mobility, and the Legacies of Urban Renewal Location: Cabot Chair: Rebecca Graff, Lake Forest College Chair: Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University Discussant: Kelly Britt, Brooklyn College 15min intro + 15min presentation Environmental Remediation and Archaeological Sites: When Your Mitigation is My Adverse Effect 9:30am - 9:45am Reframing the Ruins: Urban Archaeology and Contemporary Art 9:45am - 10:00am Between Archaeology and Architecture: Materializing the Silenced Heritage of Little Burgundy 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Growing Futures in Long Shadows: Soil Health in Chicagoland’s Post-Industrial Community Gardens 10:30am - 10:45am A Living City: Urban Renewal’s Legacy Collections in Washington, DC 10:45am - 11:00am Stories Beneath the Sunken Garden: Interdisciplinary Archaeology in an Urban Renewal Landscape 11:00am - 11:15am A Different Tune but the Same Song: Examining the Cycle of Urban Renewal in Nashville 11:15am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 30min discussion Archaeology, Emotions and Urban Displacement: The Working-class Neighborhood of Vaakunakylä in Oulu, Finland |
SYM-378T: The Ambivalence of Emptiness Location: Brule A & B Chair: Guido Pezzarossi, Syracuse University Chair: Alanna Warner-Smith, American University Discussant: Michael Roller, N/A Violence through Absence: Examining the Effects of Colonial Emptying on Archaeological Practice 9:15am - 9:30am Cartographic Emptiness: Analyzing Representations of the Brothertown Indian Nation 9:30am - 9:45am Performing Femininity on the Frontier: (In)Visibility and Isolation in the Domestic Life of Susan Hempstead Gratiot at a Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin Homestead 9:45am - 10:00am Exhausted Bodies 10:00am - 10:45am 15min presentation + 30min discussion Designed to Empty: A Quarantine Station at the Turn of the 20th Century Gallops Island, Boston, MA 10:45am - 11:00am Empty Promises: Railroad Capitalism and Toxicity in the First Gilded Age 11:00am - 11:15am Hope and Despair at the Recycling Center: An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis 11:15am - 11:30am Disposed: The Long-term Afterlives of Industrial Waste 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Where There’s Smoke, There’s A Smoke-free Campus: Discourses of Emptiness and Materialities of Heteropic Smokescapes On A College Campus |
| 10:30am - 11:45am |
GEN 09 T: Technical Analysis Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Marco G. Meniketti, San Jose State University Documenting Ancient Landscapes. A Case Study from the West Indies for 3D Imaging and Modeling 10:45am - 11:00am Investigating Anthropogenic Mercury in Soil Samples from an Early-Nineteenth-Century Fur Trade Site in Northern Wisconsin 11:00am - 11:15am Chemical Analysis of Archaeological Cupels and Crucibles Recovered from the Grounds of the Assay Office in Boise, Idaho 11:15am - 11:30am Taking a New Look at St. Mary’s City: Using GIS to Visualize Change over Time 11:30am - 11:45am Cutting Through the Noise: Application of Geophysical Survey Techniques on Historic Period Sites in CRM |
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| 11:00am - 11:45am |
SYM-153U: The Conservation of Materials from Underwater Sites Location: Mackinac West Chair: Chris Dostal, Texas A&M University Assessing and Protecting Collections, Before and After Conservation 11:15am - 11:30am Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Long-Term Care for Submerged Cultural Sites 11:30am - 11:45am Preserving the Seal: Conservation Treatment of CSS Georgia's Rubber Gaskets |
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
RL-1: Living Museums in the Sea Location: Michelangelo Host: Charles Beeker, Indiana University |
RL-2: Publishing for Early Career Researchers and Students Location: Michelangelo Hosts: Alasdair Brooks, Editor-in-Chief, Historical Archaeology; Sarah Holland, SHA Co-Publications Editor; and Mary Sue Daoud, Publisher, Springer |
RL-3: Words and Things: Textual and Linguistic Methods in Historical Archaeology Location: Michelangelo Host: Stephen Chrisomalis, Wayne State University |
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| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
GEN 05 T: Managing Collections Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Leah A. Stricker, Preservation Virginia/Jamestown Rediscovery The State of the Jamestown Collection, Five Years On 1:45pm - 2:00pm Getting the Bandoliers Back Together: Establishing a Reference Collection 2:00pm - 2:15pm Building A Clothing-Related Study Collection at Historic St. Mary's City 2:15pm - 2:30pm The Rehabilitation of the Boise Chinatown Collection 2:30pm - 2:45pm Legacy in Layers: Digging into the Pleasant Hill Shaker Village Collections |
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SYM-169T: Landscapes of Movement: Research Contributions from the Northeastern U.S. Location: Cabot Chair: Holly Herbster, The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. 15min intro + 15min presentation Cultural Mobility on Martha’s Vineyard 2:00pm - 2:15pm From Duxbury to the Lebanon Crank and Beyond: Migrations of the Sprague Family on New England’s 18th-Century Frontier 2:15pm - 2:30pm “...whatsoever growes well in England, growes as well there”: A Comparison of Macrobotanical Assemblages from Colonial English Sites in New England 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break 300+ Years at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead: New Excavations at the 1635 Quincy Homestead Site in Quincy, Massachusetts 3:00pm - 3:15pm Buildings, Window Glass, and Glassmakers on the Move in Colonial New Jersey 3:15pm - 3:30pm The Institutional Pinelands: Insights from a New Jersey Assemblage 3:30pm - 4:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Work Hard, Play Hard: Life at the Pike Hill Mine in the late 19th Century |
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POS-02 (T/UW): People in Motion Location: Renaissance Foyer Excavation of a WWII-Era Outhouse Along the Alaska Highway The Alaska Highway Archaeological Project Food Scarcity during the Harsh Winter for the 97th Regiment Geospatial Analysis of the TNX-00252 Historic District Adventures in Archival Photography, Remote Sensing and African American Historical Archaeology of a WWII Military Cantonment in Alaska Exploring the History of Colonialism and Plant Utilization: An Analysis of Botanical Remains Collected from the Chena Townsite From Pan to Table: Salt Supply and Imperial Control in the South Indian Interior, 1870-1940 Taking Archaeology To Tusk: Towards An Archaeology Of The Historical Ivory Trade Challenging Narratives: Women's Diverse Roles Aboard Sailing Vessels During the Age of Sail |
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| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
FOR-111T: Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 2 Location: Ontario West Chair: Dean L. Anderson, State Archaeologist for Michigan (Retired) Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 2 |
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SYM-192U: Stories from the Shelves: Novel Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes Location: Mackinac East Chair: Eric Rodriguez-Delgado, UC San Diego Chair: Loren R. Clark, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology Of Sediment and Surge: a Multi-Proxy Reconstruction for Tropical Cyclone Activity on the North Coast of Puerto Rico 1:45pm - 2:00pm Reading Between the Lines and Through the Water : The Application of Ground Penetrating Radar for Determining Sedimentation in the Submerged Cave Entrances of Quintana Roo, Mexico 2:00pm - 2:15pm The Pink Robot: How Underwater Archaeology can Support Middle and High School Student Engineers 2:15pm - 2:30pm Bouldnor Cliff: Refuge in the North, Key to the South 2:30pm - 2:45pm Stratigraphic Evidence of the Construction and Degradation of King Herod the Great’s Harbor at Caesarea Maritima, Israel Using Epiphytic Foraminifera (Pararotalia calcariformata) and the Elemental Geochemistry of Sediments ED-μXRF (Itrax) 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Tracking Human–Fish Interactions through Local Paleoecological Proxies: Otolith Records from the Taiwan Strait 3:15pm - 3:30pm Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Late Holocene Hydroclimate in the Bahamian Archipelago via X-Ray Fluorescence: A Paleoclimate Perspective on Archaeological Evidence 3:30pm - 4:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Simulating Human and Megafauna Movement through the Now-Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Caves of Quintana Roo, Mexico 4:00pm - 4:15pm Introducing the Classics to a New Audience: Novel and (mostly) Familiar Approaches in Submerged Landscapes Studies 4:15pm - 4:30pm Diving Deeper for the Truth: A Decade of the Slave Wrecks Project 4:30pm - 4:45pm Life on the Edge: Advances in the Methodology and Theory of Submerged Landscapes |
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SYM-119U: Recent Findings in Maritime and Terrestrial Archaeology of WWII in the Pacific Location: Mackinac West Chair: Lucas S. Simonds, International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc. Chair: Matthew F. Napolitano, International Archaeology Discussant: Jennifer McKinnon, East Carolina University Up the Forward Slope: Mapping the Battlefield Landscape of Bundschu Ridge, War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Asan Unit, Guam 1:45pm - 2:00pm Penetrating the Canopy: Optimizing UAV-Based Lidar for WWII Battlefield Archaeology in Heavily Vegetated Terrain 2:00pm - 2:15pm The Battlefield Archaeology of Guadalcanal: the First U.S. Land Campaign of World War II 2:15pm - 2:30pm The WWII Amphibious Assault: A Case Study from Peleliu 2:30pm - 2:45pm Ship to Shore: A KOCOA Analysis of Saipan’s WWII Pacific Amphibious Landing Zone 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Archaeological and Historic Landscape Surveys of Orote Field, Naval Base Guam 3:15pm - 3:30pm Uncharted Obstacles: Underwater Debris Fields and the Challenges of Aircraft Identification Near Former WWII Bases 3:30pm - 3:45pm Echoes from the Loch: Underwater Archaeology at JBPHH’s WWII Sites 3:45pm - 4:00pm Underwater Archaeological Evidence of World War II Activities in Apra Harbor, Guam 4:00pm - 4:15pm Searching for a Japanese Artillery Position on Saipan 4:15pm - 4:30pm The Archaeology of Civilian Loss and Tragedy during WWII in the Mariana Island of Micronesia 4:30pm - 5:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Remnants of War: Using a Warfare Ecological Approach to Understand Effects of the Battle for Saipan on the Local Community |
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SYM-369T: Unearthing Craft and Customs Embedded in Clay: The Archaeology of Locally Made Coarse Earthenwares Location: Cartier Chair: Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Chair: Jillian E. Galle, None Exploring Early Models of Colonial Ceramic Consumerism in Virginia 1:45pm - 2:00pm Preliminary Results Of Digital Imaging Methods Applied To 18th- And 19th-Century Southeastern Colonoware 2:00pm - 2:15pm Characterizing Diversity and Temporal Change in Late 17th and Early 18th century Enslaved Household Pottery Assemblages from the Carolina Lowcountry 2:15pm - 2:30pm Identifying Enslaved Southeastern Native American Potters in the Caribbean 2:30pm - 2:45pm Colonowares in the South Carolina Backcountry: A (Preliminary) New Look at the Low-Fired Coarse Earthenwares from John de la Howe’s Lethe Farm 2:45pm - 3:00pm Assessment of a Colonoware Assemblage at a Mid-18th Century Farm Quarter Site in Northern Virginia 3:00pm - 3:30pm 15min presentation + 15min break Invisible Potters, Visible Signatures: Tracing Colonoware Production Communities Through Elemental and Attribute Analysis 3:30pm - 3:45pm Revisiting Coarse Earthenwares from Galways Plantation, Montserrat 3:45pm - 4:00pm Jamaican Coarse Earthenware I: Evidence for Market Production and Exchange from NAA and LA-ICP-MS 4:00pm - 4:15pm Jamaican Coarse Earthenware II: Identification of Diagnostic Attributes Related to Local Production and Vessel Function 4:15pm - 4:30pm An Archaeological Retrospective on Nevisian Coarse Earthenware 4:30pm - 4:45pm Colono Vessels From A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Manhattan Site 4:45pm - 5:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Clay, Custom, and Choice: A Comparison of Lowcountry Colonoware and Catawba Pottery from South Carolina |
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FOR-313T: Atlantic Pasts, Caribbean Futures: Honoring the Scholarship, Mentorship and Service of Doug Armstrong Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew Reilly, City College of New York Chair: Mark Hauser, Northwestern University Chair: Laurie Wilkie, University of California Berkeley Atlantic Pasts, CaribbeanFutures: Honoring the Scholarship, Mentorship and Service of Doug Armstrong |
SYM-110T: Hearts in Transit: Emotional Journeys in Historical Archaeology Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Tania Casimiro, University of Stirling Chair: Susana Pacheco, CFE-HTC NOVA University of Lisbon “New comers to a strange and sickly country”: Colonial Missionaries and Mobility in West Africa 1:45pm - 2:00pm Pensacola by Force and by Choice: Understanding the Movement of Enslaved People to Pensacola in Early 19th Century 2:00pm - 2:15pm One House, Three Foundations, Four Towns: Repatriating the Wentworth House 2:15pm - 2:30pm Lost at Sea, Mourning at Home: The Materiality of Absence in Fishermen Communities 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Othered in Transit: Emotional Displacement in Portuguese Colonial Exhibitions 3:00pm - 3:15pm “As Famous in New Orleans as the Mardi Gras”: A Taste of the Crescent City in the Highland Mountains 3:15pm - 3:30pm Finding Home, Building Community, Seeking Self: Archaeological Explorations of Queer and Trans Journeying 3:30pm - 3:45pm Migration, Identity, & Emotion at the Mission of Saint Joseph (Senegal) 3:45pm - 4:00pm “Strike a blow for Congress!”: Exploring Emotions in the Battle of Ridgefield 4:00pm - 4:15pm Remapping Belonging: Memory, Movement, and the Material Afterlives of the Portuguese Estado da Índia 4:15pm - 4:30pm Mapping the 1711 Walker Fleet: Bringing Back Multivocal Perspectives on the Wrecking Event 4:30pm - 4:45pm Wigs in the Wilds: Germanna, Westward Expansion and Memory of an Evolving Emotional “Expedition” 4:45pm - 5:00pm Emotions, Space, and the Female Experience: Three Lives in Historical Archaeology (1880–1920) 5:00pm - 5:15pm Understanding the Emotion of Displacement, Movement, and Abandonment in Southern Italy through Archaeology and Photography 5:15pm - 5:30pm The Schvitz’s Hidden Mikveh: Tracing Jewish Communal Spaces in 20th-Century Detroit |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-2: Past Presidents Student Reception Location: 42 Degrees North Time: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
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| 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-3: The “Streets of Old Detroit” Reception at the Detroit Historical Museum Location: Detroit Historical Museum Location: 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit |
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| 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SBA MTG: Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) Meeting Location: LaSalle A & B |
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SPECIAL EVENT-4: Pre-Awards Banquet Cocktail Hour Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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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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SPECIAL EVENT-6: SHA Awards Ceremony and Dance Location: Ambassador 2 & 3 Cost: No fee for conference registrants; cash bar. |
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REG-5: SHA Registration Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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