SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Ontario West |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
FOR-208T: Section 106 and a City on the Move: Archaeological Methodology in Detroit Location: Ontario West Chair: Samuel R. Burns, City of Detroit Section 106 and a City on the Move: Archaeological Methodology in Detroit |
| 1:30pm - 5:15pm |
SYM-107T: Mobility in French America Location: Ontario West Chair: Erika Hartley, Western Michigan University Chair: Andrew Beaupre, Maine State Museum Discussant: Michael S. Nassaney, Western Michigan University ‘How many French fammelyes are in & about…”: An Introduction to French Colonial Mobility in Maine 1:45pm - 2:00pm Fortified Storehouse of the Lake Champlain French Forts: Archaeological Insights into the Supply and Procurement System of Fort Saint-Jean (Site 40G) in the Mid-18th Century. 2:00pm - 2:15pm Fur, Farms, and Forts: Affordances and Limitations of Mobility in the Champlain Valley 2:15pm - 2:30pm Food to Go: Domesticated Animals at French Heritage Sites in the Pays d'en Haut and the Illinois Country 2:30pm - 2:45pm Historic Foodways at River Raisin: Reconstructing Animal Economies and Mobility through Faunal and Isotopic Analysis 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Weaving Connections: An Exploration of the Movement of Cloth and Relationships at Fort St. Joseph 3:15pm - 3:30pm The Mobility of Metals During the French Fur Trade: An Analysis of Blacksmithing at Fort Ouiatenon within the Economic Activity of 18th Century New France 3:30pm - 3:45pm Tracing Mobility in New France Through Musket Balls 3:45pm - 4:00pm Mobility of Things in French North America: Dating and Transporting Glass Fragments from the River Raisin Site 4:00pm - 4:15pm Fort Tombecbe (1736-1763) and the Path of the Choctaws 4:15pm - 4:30pm Paris-Cayenne: Ceramic Availability and Use Within the Plantation Context in French Guiana (Guyane) 4:30pm - 4:45pm On the Edge of Empire: Mobility, Trade, and Rewriting the Northern Plains 4:45pm - 5:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion The Decline of the Fur Trade in Michigan: Human-Environmental Interaction caused by Societal Change |