SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Cadillac A & B |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1:30pm - 5:30pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
GEN 03 T: The Archaeology of Infrastructure Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Kathryn A. Cross, AR Consultants, Inc. Anatomy of a Railroad Through Cut Creation near Promontory, Utah 9:15am - 9:30am Lasers in the Dark: 3D Documentation of the Marshall Tunnel Canal, Botetourt County, VA 9:30am - 9:45am Excavating Incarcerated Labor on the Western North Carolina Railroad: Archaeology at the Cowee Tunnel Prison Labor Camp in Jackson County, NC 9:45am - 10:00am Landscape Transformations along Minnesota’s North Shore: Analysis from Split Rock Lighthouse 10:00am - 10:15am Wrecked Borders: Shipwrecks as Maritime Cultural Landscapes in Northern Michigan's Manitou Passage 10:15am - 10:30am Space Syntax Analysis, Community Circulation, and (Infra)Structural Violence in a Dallas Freedman’s Town |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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 |
| 3:15pm - 4:30pm |
GEN 04 T: Life in an Industrial Setting Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Christopher G. LaMack, University of Pennsylvania "Equal, Perhaps Superior To, Any Powder in the World": The Madras Gunpowder Factory and the Colonial Explosives Industry in 19th Century Southern India 3:30pm - 3:45pm Layers of Labor: Compositional and Metallurgic Differentiation of Metal Artifacts at a Historic Louisiana Sugar Plantation 3:45pm - 4:00pm Play, Work, and Identity: The Archaeology of Childhood in 19th-Century New Almaden 4:00pm - 4:15pm Uncovering Assaying and Domestic Life at the Boise Assay Office: A Pillar of the Industry That Forged the State of Idaho 4:15pm - 4:30pm Plains, Trains, and Mining Cart Wheels: Industrial Ruralism and Mobility in the Sulcis Plain, Sardinia |
| 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 |
| 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 |