SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Cartier |
| 9:00am - 11:15am |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 5:15pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 4:15pm |
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 |

