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diverse backgrounds in the field of archaeology.
The papers will be judged on content and presentation.
This competition is unique in that each student participant is paired
with a mentor with a similar focus in archaeology.
Winners will receive a monetary prize and a certificate of award from the
MAAC President. All papers will be
submitted for publication in the Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology.
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Friday, February
29
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A
Sessions
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|
Session I: Life From Death: Mortuary Practices,
Bio-archaeology, and Burial Issues
(
8:00 am - 10:20
am)
Richard Guercin, Chair |
|
8:00-8:20
|
Introduction |
Richard J. Guercin |
| 8:20-8:40 |
Last Rights: Maintaining the Dignity and
Humanity of the Deceased |
Laura Powell Kiser |
|
8:40-9:00
|
Mortuary Practices at the Wrenn-Hutchinson
Cemetery,
Fairfax County,
Virginia
|
Charles LeeDecker |
| 9:00-9:20
|
Lenape Mortuary Data from the Montgomery Site
(36CH60): Evidence for Cultural Change During the Period ca. 1720-1733
|
Marshall Joseph Becker
|
| 9:20-9:40
|
Death in the Valley: Burial Rituals of the Delaware
|
R. Dustin Cushman |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Native American Artifacts: An Update to NAGPRA
Inventory |
Leah Cooper |
| 10:00-10:20 |
The Utility of Dog Bone (Canis familiaris) in
Stable Isotope Studies for Investigating Prehistoric Maize (Zea mays
ssp.mays) Consumption: A Preliminary Study |
Sharon Allit, Timothy Messner, R. Michael Stewart |
|
10:00-10:40
|
Break |
| Session
2: General Historical Archaeology I
(
10:40 am - 12:00
)
Aimee Wells, Chairs
|
| 10:40-11:00 |
The Preservation of
History and Heritage Through A Site-Specific Study:
Acquinton
Church, King
William
County, Virginia |
Summer Chaffman |
|
11:00-11:20
|
Connemara: A
Contemporary Case of Myth Perpetuation |
Nichole E. Sorenson-Mutchie and Julie M.
Schablitsky |
|
11:20-11:40 |
Preliminary Analysis of Faunal Remains From
the
Gloucester
Point Site (44GL360) |
David Clark |
|
11:40-12:00
|
Discovering 19th Century Lifeways
in Rahway
,
New Jersey: The Peace Tavern-Woodruff House Site (28-Un-42) |
Brock Giordano |
| Session
3: Cemeteries: History, Social Context, and
Archaeology (1:30 pm - 3:40 pm)
Antonia Davidson, Chair |
|
1:30-1:40
|
Introduction |
Antonia Davidson |
|
1:40-2:00
|
Freedmen’s Cemetery: Prehistory in a
Historic Setting |
Antonia Davidson |
|
2:00-2:20
|
Evidence of Nineteenth-Century Coffins in
Alexandria,
Virginia: The Results of Excavating Two Cemeteries |
Stephen J. Shephard and Francine W. Bromberg |
|
2:20-2:40
|
Archaeology and the Contraband and
Freedmen’s Cemetery Memorial, Alexandria,
Virginia
|
Eric L. Larsen |
|
2:40-3:00
|
Walter
C.
Pierce
Park
Archaeological Project: A Survey of the Colored Union Benevolent
Association
Cemetery
(51NW216) |
Ruth Trocolli, Chandra L. Harris, and Mark E.
Mack |
|
3:00-3:20
|
Bringing in the Sheaves: the Relocation of the
Tate
Family
Cemetery, Hanover County,
Virginia
|
Charles D. Cheek |
| 3:20-3:40 |
Cemetery Investigations at Fort A.P. Hill |
Rich B. Davis |
|
3:40
|
Break |
| Session
4: Susquehannock Archaeology (4:00 pm -
5:20 pm)
TBD,
Chair |
|
4:00-4:20
|
More Than Glass: The Importance of European
Trade Beads within Susquehannock Indian Culture |
Jenna Zimmerman |
|
4:20-4:40
|
The British and the Susquehannocks |
Zachary A Klecha |
|
4:40-5:00
|
Trade Relations Between Swedish Settlers and
the Native Inhabitants of the Delaware River
Valley
|
Jasmine N. Gollup |
| 5:00-5:20 |
A Comparative Study of the Feminine Domain in
Susquehannock Longhouses and English Townhouses |
Sandra Strobel |
B
Sessions
|
| Session
5: Problems and Prospects for 17th
Century Archaeology in
Delaware
and the Delaware Valley (8:00 am - 10:30 am)
John W. Martin, Chair |
|
8:00-8:10
|
Introduction |
John W. Martin |
|
8:10-8:30
|
Searching for New Jersey's Missing Century (1610-1710):A Preliminary Gazetteer of Known 17th
Century Archaeological Sites |
Richard Veit and William B. Liebeknecht |
|
8:30-8:50
|
Methodological Issues Relating to Survey
Testing for 17th Century Sites |
John W. Martin and Daniel Griffith |
| 8:50-9:10 |
Delaware
’s
Colonial Capital in the 17th Century: From New Amstel to New Castle
|
Lu Ann De Cunzo |
| 9:10-9:30 |
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Cautionary
Tale of the Sarah Brooks House, Bellevue
State Park
|
William E. Wright and Cara Lee Blume |
| 9:30-9:50 |
The 17th Century Archaeology of the
Delaware
Valley
|
Craig Lukezic and Charles Fithian |
| 9:50-10:10 |
Colonial Settlement in Coastal Delaware:
Avery’s Rest, A Case Study |
Daniel R. Griffith |
|
10:10-10:30 |
The Printzhof (36DE3): Excavations, Analysis,
Politics |
Charles A. Bello and
Marshall Joseph Becker |
|
10:30 |
Break |
| Session
6: General Historical Archaeology II (10:45
am - 12:05 pm)
TBD, Chair |
| 10:45-
|
The Early Poor in
Philadelphia: A Preliminary Report on the Philadelphia
City
Almshouse Privy Excavation (1732-1767) |
Mara Kaktins and Sharon Allitt |
| 11:05-
|
Dinner at the Hites: Material Culture and Food Preparation Activities at Belle Grove Plantation
|
Lauren Bangs, Claire Metcalfe, and Scott
Slowinski |
| 11:25-
|
Excavations of 44PW1199: An 18th
Century Slave Quarters in
Northern Virginia
|
Heather Crowl |
| 11:45-12:05
|
Window Glass in Domestic Slave Contexts:
Quantitative Thoughts and Interpretive Questions |
Douglas Sanford |
| Session
7: Current Research: Early Colonial Archaeology of
the Mid-Atlantic (1:30 pm - 4:40 pm)
Stephanie Sperling, Chair |
| 1:30-
|
Introduction |
Stephanie Sperling |
| 1:40-
|
Early Colonial Gloucester Point: Globalization on
the
York River
|
Christopher Sperling |
| 2:00-
|
An Hypothesis Concerning Sub-floor “Storage”
Features in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Storage or
Trashpit? |
C. Jane Cox |
| 2:20-2:40
|
Gibson’s Grant: Collaboration and Archaeology
on Kent Island, Maryland |
Cheryl Giese |
| 2:40-3:00 |
A Survey of Textiles in Maryland
Archaeological Collections |
Anne T. Hayward |
| 3:00-3:20 |
Break |
| 3:20-3:40 |
Early
Maryland
Architecture: Constructing “Biographies” of 17th and Early
18th Century Structures in the
Potomac River
Drainage |
Scott M. Strickland |
| 3:40-4:00 |
“Flight on the Wings of Vanity:” Colonial
Quaker Material Culture of West River,
Maryland
|
Lauren Schiszik |
| 4:00-4:20 |
Searching for Sparrow’s Rest: Two Years of
Excavations at the Java Site (18AN339) |
Stephanie Taleff Sperling |
| 4:20-4:40 |
The “Large and Elegant Mansion House of Samuel
Chew” |
Al Luckenbach |
C
Sessions
|
| Session
8: Pottery Typology in the
Upper
Delaware
Valley
(8:00 am - 9:10 am)
Roger Moeller, Chair |
| 8:00-8:10
|
Introduction |
Roger Moeller |
| 8:10-8:30
|
Tired of Being Typed or the Pot Sherd says:
"What?" |
Roger Moeller |
| 8:30-8:50
|
TBD |
Michael Stewart |
| 8:50-9:10 |
“Whatchoo talkin’ bout potsherd?”
Insights into
Upper Delaware
Ceramic Grammars |
Greg Lattanzi |
| Session
9: General Prehistoric Archaeology I
(9:10 am - 11:50 am)
TBD, Chair |
| 9:10-9:30
|
Uncovering the Origins of Virginia’s Abbot
Zoned Incised Pottery: An LA-ICP-MS Study |
Laura M. Steadman |
| 9:30-9:50
|
The Role of Pottery for Hunter-Gatherers: If Only
Binford Had Liked Ceramics |
Chris Espenshade |
| 9:50-10:10
|
Break |
| 10:10-10:30
|
The Keyser Farm Site (44PA1): Evidence of an
Interior Shell Bead Industry |
Michael Barber |
| 10:30-10:50
|
True Blue: Vivianite
as a Mineral Pigment |
Carolyn Dillian, Charles Bello, Nequandra Bowen |
| 10:50-11:10 |
The Glenwood Estate: Landscape Archaeology and
the Development of Urbanization in Western Virginia
|
Robert Maslowski |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Archaeological Assessment of the Hercules Site
(44AY40)
City of Covington,
Virginia
|
Will
Moore
|
| 11:30-11:50 |
German Perceptions of Native Americans in Light
of Karl May’s Adventure Stories |
Anastazia P. Colzie |
| Session
10: Applying Scientific Methods in Prehistoric
Archaeology (1:30 - 3:30 pm)
TBD, Chair |
| 1:30-1:50
|
Delmarva Archaeology & Sea Level Rise:
Geoarchaeological Investigations into Holocene Marine Transgression |
Darrin Lowery |
| 1:50-2:10
|
The Bioarchaeology of Maryland’s Page and
Keyser Populations |
Dana D. Kollman |
| 2:10-2:30
|
Applications of the Scanning Electron Microscope
in Lithics Research |
Jennifer Emmick |
| 2:30-2:50
|
Testing Other Methods to Create Fire Through
Experiment |
Sean McHugh |
| 2:50-3:10
|
Emerging Patterns in
Chesapeake
Archeobotany: An Update on the Virginia Archeobotanical Data Base
Project |
Martin Gallivan and Justine Woodard McKnight |
| 3:10-3:30
|
Maudlin Over Modelin’:
Mountain
Basins
and Hunter-Gatherer Mobility |
Carole Nash |
| 3:30-3:50
|
Break |
| Session
11: Investigations into the Archaic Period
(3:50 pm - 5:30 pm)
TBD, Chair |
| 3:50-4:10
|
Depue
Island,
Pennsylvania
: A
stratigraphically isolated Early Archaic Deposit |
Jeremy W. Koch, Joseph R. Blondino, and Michael
Stewart |
| 4:10-4:30
|
How Can You Mend a Broken Hearth?: Preliminary
results of excavations at the Driftstone site |
Joseph R. Blondino |
| 4:30-4:50
|
Lithic Analysis of Prehistoric Materials at the
Lincoln Drive
Site in
Northern Virginia
|
April Cantrell |
| 4:50-5:10
|
Prehistoric Settlement Organization and Resource
Exploitation on
Long Island,
New York
: The Naima Site and the Nissequogue
River
System |
Daniel Mazeau |
| 5:10-5:30 |
The Transitional Archaic of the Susquehanna River
Valley
|
Patricia Miller |
Friday Evening February 29
|
| 7:30 |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Robert L. Schuyler:
Archaeology of the
Far West
in the Middle Atlantic Region |
Saturday
March 1
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A
Sessions
|
| Session
12: “Seeing the Elephant”: Conflict Archaeology
in the Middle Atlantic Region (8:00 am - 12:00 noon)
Joseph Balicki, Chair |
|
8:00-8:10
|
Introduction |
Joseph Balicki |
|
8:10-8:30
|
The Fall 1863 Bivouac of the 14th Connecticut
Infantry: The Relevance of Metal Detection in the Examination of Civil War
Campsites |
Joseph Balicki |
|
8:30-8:50
|
4th Month, No Money…No Rations…No
Pants, No Patriotism: Metal Detector Investigations at the Blenheim
Estate, Fairfax City,
Virginia
|
Kerri Holland and Joseph Balicki |
| 8:50-9:10
|
The Battle
of Monmouth: The Archaeology of Molly Pitcher, the Royal Highlanders, and
Colonel Cilley’s Light Infantry |
Dan Sivilich |
| 9:10-9:30
|
Recovering the Revolution: Investigating an
Unknown Brigade at the
Valley Forge
Encampment |
Carin Bloom |
| 9:30-9:50
|
The Perambulations of Lieutenant Nutt’s Button:
Camp
Security
and
Camp
Indulgence, York County,
Pennsylvania
|
Wade P. Catts |
| 9:50-10:00
|
Break |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Fisher’s Hill “Gibraltar” of the Confederacy: The Confederate Defenses of September 24, 1864 |
Clarence R. Geier |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Archaeological Survey of Camp Russell, Sheridan’s 1864 Winter Encampment in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia |
Robert L. Jolley |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Archaeological Investigations of the World War I
Training Trenches (44PW1558) at Marine Corps Base Quantico,
Virginia
|
Bryan L. Corle |
| 11:00-11:20 |
West
Virginia’s Private and
Militia Frontier Forts of the Revolutionary Era: An Archaeological View |
W. Stephern McBride, Kim A. McBride |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Antietam
and
the Archaeology of Tactics |
Stephen R. Potter |
| 11:40-12:00
|
An Unexpected Discovery at
Fort Mifflin,
Pennsylvania
|
David G. Orr |
| Session
13: Underwater Archaeology (1:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
Stephen Bilicki and Jennifer Gardner, Co-Chairs |
| 1:30-1:40
|
Introduction |
Stephen Bilicki |
| 1:40-2:00 |
TBD |
Jennifer Gardner |
| 2:00-2:20
|
The Search for the Lion of Baltimore |
Dave Shaw, Steve Anthony, Tom Berkey, and Dennis
Knepper |
| 2:20-2:40 |
Underwater Archaeology of
Jamestown Island,
Virginia: Diving into Context |
Jodi Carpenter |
| 2:40-3:00 |
SHIP Reconnaissance in
Maryland
and Delaware, 2007 |
David P. Howe |
| 3:00-3:20
|
Break |
| 3:20-3:40 |
TBD |
Mark Opdyke |
| 3:40-4:00 |
Working Together to Save the USS Monitor:
Contributions from Other Fields |
David Krop and Susanne Grieve |
| 4:00-4:20 |
That’s Not Supposed To Be There: Northampton County,
Virginia
Survey |
|
| 4:20-4:40 |
A Rhinoceros in Delaware? Three-dimensional modeling of the eighteenth-century Roosevelt Inlet
Shipwreck Site |
Bridget McVae |
| 4:40-5:00
|
Mid-Atlantic Deepwater Shipwreck Study:
Side-Wheel Paddle Steamer Admiral Dupont, 1847-1865 |
Joyce Steinmetz |
B
Sessions
|
| Session
14: Preserve the Past and You Will Know the Future:
Conserving and Researching Archaeological Collections (8:00 am -
11:40 am)
Bernard Means and Lisa Young,
Co-Chairs |
|
8:00-8:10
|
Introduction |
Bernard Means and Lisa Young |
| 8:10-8:20 |
Uncovering Hidden Data: Information Revealed
During the Treatment of Archaeological Artifacts from Historic St.
Mary’s City, Maryland
|
Lisa Young |
| 8:20-8:40
|
On a Highway to Heaven? Resurrecting a Forgotten Monongahela
Village, The Philips Site |
Bernard Means |
| 8:40-9:00
|
Six Inches Under: Monongahela Burials from the
Phillips Site |
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