SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Mackinac East |
| 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? |
| 1:30pm - 4:45pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |