 Annual Conference and MeetingCouncil for Northeast Historical ArchaeologyConnecting People and PlacesUtica, NY October 21-23, 2011Schedule and ProgramPrint/Download revised schedule and program Revised Schedule and Program |
SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 20
6:00-8:00 PM: Executive Board Meeting: Lamplighter Pub
5:00-9:00 PM: Registration: Hotel Utica Lobby
Friday, October 21
7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Registration: Mezzanine
Tours and Workshop (transportation provided for tours only). For tours, meet in the Lobby of the Hotel Utica at 8:30am, buses depart from Lafayette St. side of hotel. Bioarchaeology Workshop, Utica College (9am-2pm)
3:00 - 5:00 PM: Plenary Session: Crystal Ballroom (2nd Floor)
6:00 - 8:00 PM: Welcome Reception: Saranac-Matt Brewing Company, 811 Edward St., Utica, NY 13502 (participants are responsible for their own transportation to and from the reception; directions are provided in your registration packet)
Saturday, October 22
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM: Registration: Mezzanine
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Paper & Poster Presentations (Seneca & Oriskany Rooms, 2nd floor; Saranac Room, Mezzanine)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Book Room (Saranac Room, Mezzanine)
7:30 - 10:00 PM: Banquet (Crystal Ballroom, 2nd Floor)
Sunday, October 23
8:00 AM-12:00 PM: Registration: Hotel Utica Lobby
7:30-9:00 AM: Annual Business Meeting & Breakfast (Crystal Ballroom, 2nd Floor)
9:00 AM-1:00 PM: Book Room (Saranac Room, Mezzanine)
9:00 AM-1:00 PM: Paper Presentations (Seneca Room & Oriskany Room, 2nd Floor)
PROGRAM
Plenary Session: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
Plenary Session: Connecting People and Places: New York State as a Crossroads in American History, CRYSTAL BALLROOM, 2nd Floor
3:00 PM: Douglas Armstrong (Syracuse University), Uncovering Inspiration: Archaeological Explorations into the Life of Harriet Tubman
3:20 PM: Jan DeAmicis (Utica College), “A boulder weighing between five and six tons”: Archaeology and the Underground Railroad in Oneida County, New York
3:40 PM: Oneida Indian Nation (Oneida, New York), Since Time Immemorial: the Oneida’s Role in Shaping Central New York’s History
4:00 PM: Brian Howard (Oneida County Historical Society), Artifacts as Teaching Tools: The Collections of the Oneida County Historical Society
4:20 PM: Ann-Eliza Lewis (Columbia County Historical Society), Heritage Tourism in the Mid Hudson Valley: Possibilities and Challenges for Public Archaeology
4:40 PM: Anthony Wonderley (Oneida Community Mansion House), The Oneida Community and Its Architecture
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22
The following sessions take place in the Seneca Room, 2nd Floor:Session 1 (8:00-9:30, Seneca Room, 2nd Floor): Forging Identity and Social Movements through Sacred & Secular Space and Material
8:00-8:20: Megan Springate*, Where the Tinder was Lit: Archaeological Excavations at the Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, New York
8:20-8:40: Allison Conner*, Cultured Corpses: A Comparison of 17th-Century Burials at St. Mary’s City, MD to Contemporary English Protestant and Spanish and French Catholic Burials
8:40-9:00: Timothy Riordan and Ruth Mitchell, “A Vain Resistance to an Inevitable Dispensation”: Evolution and Dating of the Brick Lined Graves in the Cemetery at Cloverfield, MD
9:00-9:30: Discussion & Coffee Break
Session 2 (9:30-12:00, Seneca Room, 2nd Floor): Transformations in Relationships between Communities and Military Land- and Seascapes
9:30-9:50: Amy Roache-Fedchenko, A Multi-Component Survey Strategy for the Cultural Resource Management of Fort Stanwix National Monument
9:50-10:10: Taylor Gerard*, Fort Stanwix Archeological Survey: A Closer Look at the Urban Renewal Project of the 1960s
10:10-10:30: Brant Venables, Changes in Memorialization and Monumentality at Gettysburg National Military Park
10:30-10:50: Joseph Last, Glacis Under Siege: Managing Heritage Values of a Cultural Landscape
10:50-11:10: Douglas Nixon, Test Excavations At Fort Henry NHSC 2010: Clearing the Northeast Glacis
11:10-11:30: Dan Sivilich, Analysis of Bird Shot vs. Buck Shot and Other Ordnance Used to Approximately Date the Mystery Ship Discovered at the Base of the World Trade Center Reconstruction Site
Discussion: 11:30-12:00
12:00-1:30: LUNCH BREAK
Session 3 (1:30-3:20, Seneca Room, 2nd Floor): The Construction of Personhood and Community through the Built Environment
1:30-1:50: Barry Gaulton & James Tuck, Exploring the Changes in Economics and Architecture at Ferryland, Newfoundland (1621-1696)
1:50-2:10: Paul Nasca, Virginia’s “Promised Land” in 1862 –The North Bank of the Rappahannock: Slavery, Freedom, and Memory at George Washington’s Boyhood Home
2:10-2:30: Corey McQuinn, An Archeology of Neighborhood: Landscape Development and Use in a Nineteenth-Century Urban Context
2:30-2:50: David Babson, "Free Sugar, Sweet Spring and Real Farmers": Ideals of Maple Syrup Making at Fort Drum, New York
2:50-3:10: Suzanne Plousos, De Gaugreben’s “great mass of earth badly put together”
Discussion: 3:10-3:20
3:20-3:30: COFFEE BREAK
Session 4 (3:30-5:00, Seneca Room, 2nd Floor): Connecting the Dots: Integrating Archaeology with Archives, Laboratories, Exhibits, and People
3:30-3:50: Hadley Kruczek-Aaron, Teaching Archaeology in the Archives: Reflections on a Classroom Exercise in Historical Archaeology
3:50-4:10: Silas Hurry and Lisa Young, Designing a 21st Century Archaeological Facility for the 17th Century Capital of Maryland
4:10-4:30: John Ratcliffe*, Echoes in the Ice: The Material Culture of Nineteenth Century Arctic Exploration
4:30-4:50: Susan Bazely, Molly Brant from the Mohawk to the Cataraqui River: Her Influence Then and Now
4:50-5:00: Discussion
The following sessions take place in the Oriskany Room, 2nd Floor:
Session 5 (8:00-11:20, Oriskany Room 2nd Floor): Food for Thought: The Place of Foodways, Consumption, and Disposal in the Interpretation of Past Peoples
8:00-8:20: Mélanie Johnson Gervais*, Peoples, Places and French Stoneware: a Documentary Study of New France Ceramics
8:20-8:40: Eva MacDonald, Dining with John and Catherine Butler at the Close of the Eighteenth Century
8:40-9:00: Jack Gary, Ceramics and Thomas Jefferson’s Aesthetic Philosophy for Poplar Forest
9:00-9:20: Ciana Meyers*, The Marketplace of Boston: Paleoethnobotanical Remains from Boston’s Faneuil Hall in Trans-Atlantic Perspective
9:20-9:40: COFFEE BREAK
9:40-10:00: Linda Santoro*, Bones in the Landfill: A Zooarchaeological Study from Faneuil Hall
10:00-10:20: Jennifer Poulsen, Bottles at the Blake House Site: A Study of 19th Century Dorchester, Massachusetts
10:20-10:40: Matthew Kirk, Managing Trash in West Utica: Evolving Municipal Sanitation Practices and the Archeological Implications
10:40-11:00: George Cress & Douglas Mooney, Before and Below I-95: An Update to Ongoing Archaeological Investigations in Philadelphia
11:00-11:20: Discussion
12:00-1:30: LUNCH BREAK
Session 6 (1:30-4:00, Saranac Room, Mezzanine): Poster Session
• David Moyer, A Study of Bricks from the Lawrence Cement Company Manufacturing Plant, Rosendale, New York
• Amy Roache-Fedchenko, Erin Kain, Keith Routley, ‘Rediscovering’ Material Culture at Fort Stanwix National Monument
• Chelsea Morris, Analysis of 18th Century Ceramics from the East Barracks at Fort Stanwix
New Research in Historical Archaeology at Université Laval, Posters Organized by Allison Bain and Stéphane Noël:
• Mélanie Rousseau & Emily Young-Vigneault, The Intendant’s Palace (CeEt-30) Site: Université Laval’s 2011 Field-School
• Frédéric Dussault, Gary King, Allison Bain, William Kelso, Danny Schmidt, Archaeoentomology at the James Fort: Insect Remains Recovered from a Colonial Well in Jamestown, Virginia
• Stéphane Noël & Anne-Marie Faucher, Recent Excavations of Pre-Expulsion Acadian Middens (c.1664-1755) at the Melanson Settlement NHS, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Anne-Marie Faucher & Stéphane Noel, Acadian Use of Plants at the Melanson Settlement National Historic Site, Nova Scotia, Canada
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23
The following sessions take place in the Seneca Room, 2nd Floor:
Session 7 (9:00-10:50, Seneca Room, 2nd Floor): The Relocation of the Buffalo Potter’s Field at City Honors School, Buffalo, New York, Organized and Chaired by Kimberley Morrell
9:00-9:20: Douglas Mooney, Paupers, Plagues, and Strangers: Archaeological Investigations of the Buffalo Potter’s Field at City Honors School
9:20-9:40: Rebecca White and Kimberly Morrell, All That Remained: An Examination of the Funerary and Personal Artifacts from the Buffalo Potter’s Field
9:40-10:00: Kimberly Behrendt & Tom Crist, Nineteenth-century Occurrence of Crouzon Syndrome: Evidence from the Potter’s Field of Buffalo
10:00-10:20: Kim Morrell, Rebecca White, Tom Crist, Succor by Any Means: A Discussion of Burial 299 at the Buffalo Potter’s Field
10:20-10:40: Tom Crist, “Within the Sound of Niagara’s Roar”: African Americans Interred in the Potter’s Field of Buffalo
10:40-10:50: Discussion
10:50-11:00: COFFEE BREAK
Session 8 (11:00-1:00, Seneca Room, 2nd Floor): Looking for Footprints: Archaeological Observations of Architecture and Settlement Remains
11:00-11:20: Rebecca Yamin, Chasing the Transit of Venus—Then and Now
11:20-11:40: Sarah Lowry & Shawn Patch, Mapping the Landscape of the ‘Center of the Rebellion’: Geophysical Prospection at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Seneca Falls, New York
11:40-12:00: Sherene Baugher, The Significance and Remaining Sensitivity of a Flood Damaged Site in Robert H. Treman State Park, New, York
12:00-12:20: David Staley, Public Archaeology at the Thayer Homestead, Otsego County, New York
12:20-12:40: Barbara Leskovec, A Stroll through Time: Archaeological Investigations at Fort Malden National Historic Site of Canada
Discussion: 12:40-1:00
The following sessions take place in the Oriskany Room, 2nd Floor:
Session 9 (9:00-1:00, Oriskany Room, 2nd Floor): A Conversation with David G. Orr; Organized and Chaired by Christopher Barton
9:00-9:20: Christopher Barton & Deirdre Kelleher, Introduction
9:20-9:40: Lu Ann De Cunzo, On Holism and Wonder and Awe
9:40-10:00: Kevin Donaghy, Professor David Orr, A Renaissance Archaeologist through the Ages of Cultural Ephemera and Changing Approaches to Interpreting Site Formation Processes and Efforts to Preserve the Pasts and the Present
10:00-10:20: Lou Farrell, A Newly Discovered Outlier Redware Pottery Kiln
10:20-10:40: Richard Veit & Michael Gall, White Hill Mansion: The Archaeology of a Northern Plantation
10:40-11:00: Wade Catts, “We have Allowed the Rebels too Much Time in which to become Soldiers”: Deciphering Revolutionary War American Military Formations through Historical Archeology
11:00-11:20: COFFEE BREAK
11:20-11:40: Sarah Chesney, Archaeology at the Woodlands Estate, Philadelphia, PA; or, How Dave Orr Made Me the Greenhouse Girl
11:40-12:00: Patricia Markert, Rebuilding Timbuctoo: The Use of Oral History and Archaeology at Timbuctoo, New Jersey
12:00-12:20: Christopher Barton, Improvisation and Identity: Archaeology at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey
12:20-12:40: Carin Bloom, Archaeological Commander-in-Chief: Dr. David Orr at Valley Forge
12:40-1:00: David Orr, Concluding Comments