SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Nicolet A & B |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
FOR-413U: The Future of Deepwater Archaeology: Emerging Technology and Innovations Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Anne Nunn, Henry Jackson Foundation Chair: Hannah P. Fleming, HJF supporting DPAA The Future of Deepwater Archaeology: Emerging Technology and Innovations |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
GEN 05 T: Managing Collections Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Leah A. Stricker, Preservation Virginia/Jamestown Rediscovery The State of the Jamestown Collection, Five Years On 1:45pm - 2:00pm Getting the Bandoliers Back Together: Establishing a Reference Collection 2:00pm - 2:15pm Building A Clothing-Related Study Collection at Historic St. Mary's City 2:15pm - 2:30pm The Rehabilitation of the Boise Chinatown Collection 2:30pm - 2:45pm Legacy in Layers: Digging into the Pleasant Hill Shaker Village Collections |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
GEN 15 U: Methodology, Monitoring and Management Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Denise Jaffke, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. Keeping Brother Jonathan: Revisiting the California Gold Rush-Era Shipwreck 9:15am - 9:30am Developing Guidance for Underwater Archaeology in California 9:30am - 9:45am Modeling the Maritime Past: A GIS-Based Geomorphological Approach to Identifying Medieval Harbor Sites on the Porkkala Peninsula, Finland 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break I-POINT: An Overview of the Instability and Pollution Potential Mapping of Irish Shipwreck Sites for a National Risk Assessment Database Project 10:15am - 10:30am Uploading the Past into the Digital Universe: Photogrammetry and the Role of VR, AR, and NFTs in Archaeology 10:30am - 10:45am The World’s Smallest Museum: An Unreal Engine 5 Virtual Reality Museum 10:45am - 11:00am Maritime Archaeology In Motion: From Unknown Anomalies To 3D Models |
| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
FOR-315T: Archaeology with and of Music—A Forum Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University Archaeology with and of Music—A Forum |
| 9:00am - 11:45am |
SYM-247T: Storied Landscapes: Co-Producing Meaningful Knowledge about Pasts, Presents, and Futures Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Meredith S. Chesson, University of Notre Dame Chair: Ian Kuijt, Univ. of Notre Dame Discussant: Stephen Silliman, University of Massachusetts Boston Discussant: Maria Franklin, University of Texas 15min presentation + 15min break “And Bless Each Door That Opens Wide to Stranger as to Kin”: Persistence on Two Irish Islands 9:30am - 9:45am The Muddy Middle: Contested and Multi-Faceted Stories of New Orleans’ Plantations 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Targeting Beauty: Storytelling, Memory Politics, and Ukrainian Culture Heritage 10:15am - 10:30am One Place, Innumerable Stories: Revitalizing Rural Lifeways in the Bova region of southern Calabria 10:30am - 10:45am A Regeneration Story: Weathering Storms on St. Croix, USVI 10:45am - 11:00am Multi-Modal Storytelling and Archaeological Imagination at Amache National Historic Site 11:00am - 11:45am 15min presentation + 30min discussion "Memory Against Forgetting”: An Archaeology of Relationships, Power, and Other Narratives |
| 1:30pm - 5:15pm |
SYM-220T: Mobility, Borderlands, and the Commons: Archaeological Perspectives Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Jodi A. Barnes, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Chair: Kendy Altizer, University of North Georgia Edisto Village Mobility in the Early Colonial Era 1:45pm - 2:00pm Shared Edges: Glass Tools and the Making of a Material Commons in South Carolina 2:00pm - 2:15pm “...and for mending the Guns of some of the Chickasaw Indians”: Black Expertise and Indigenous Worlds at 87 Church Street, Charleston 2:15pm - 2:30pm Mobility and Mobilization of Freedom in Spanish St. Augustine 2:30pm - 2:45pm Borderlands and Frontiers: An Archaeology of Black Commons in the Nascent British Colony of Sierra Leone 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Life in a Borderland: Enslaved People of the Santee Delta 3:15pm - 3:30pm Using Survey-level Data to Trace the Development of South Carolina’s Early Colonial Plantation Landscape 3:30pm - 3:45pm Black Commons, frontiers, and mobility at Laurel Hill rice plantation, South Carolina 3:45pm - 4:00pm Remapping plantation ecologies on the North Santee: The Black Commons 4:00pm - 4:15pm The Black Commons and the Archaeology of Water Disaster 4:15pm - 4:30pm Desire Paths in the Black Metropolis 4:30pm - 4:45pm Cores and their Margins: Geoarchaeological Signatures of Localized Agro-Ecological Practice in Historic Rice Fields at Hobcaw Barony, South Carolina 4:45pm - 5:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Buttons, Bone Handles, and Borders: Negotiating Spaces of Enslavement on USC's Campus |