SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Richard A & B |
| 9:00am - 11:45am |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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 |
| 3:15pm - 4:45pm |
GEN 02 T: New Lands, New People Location: Richard A & B Chair: Albert Dudley Gardner, Western Anthropological And Archaeological Researc Continuing Investigations at Mission San Francisco de Potano in La Florida 3:30pm - 3:45pm The Search for Mission Santa Clara de Tupiqui: The Archaeology of a 17th Century Spanish Mission on the Georgia Coast 3:45pm - 4:00pm Investigating Relationships Between Creole and Indigenous Heritage in Coastal Alabama 4:00pm - 4:15pm American Settlers in the Caddo World: Landscapes of Antebellum Colonial Expansion in the Pre-Removal Period 4:15pm - 4:30pm Seeking A Home: The Archaeology of German Immigrant Farms in Southwestern Illinois 4:30pm - 4:45pm Assessing Integrity of Setting and Place at Historic Sites: Challenges in Urban Excavations Using the Case Studies of a Chinatown Excavation and a Hispanic Barrio Survey |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
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 |