Come and see us at the SAA annual meeting! Researchers and recent alumni from the Ceramic Technology Lab will be presenting on a variety of topics in Washington, D.C. next week.

For more conference information, visit www.SAA.org. A more complete list of FLMNH participation at the SAAs here.

Schedule:

Thursday Morning, April 12

[9] POSTER SESSION ARCHAEOMETRY I Room: Exhibit Hall B South

Time: 8:00 AM–10:00 AM

9-e  Neill Wallis, John Krigbaum, George Kamenov and Michael D. Glascock—Pots and People in Motion in Woodland Period Florida

[35] GENERAL SESSION LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

Room: Lincoln 4

8:00 Isabelle Lulewicz, Neill Wallis and Victor Thompson—Village Aggregation and Native Subsistence Practices at a Middle Woodland Mound Center, Gulf Coast Florida, USA

[51] POSTER SESSION THE CARIBBEAN

Room: Exhibit Hall B South Time: 10:30 AM–12:30 PM

51-c  Fraser Neiman, Lindsay Bloch, Jillian Galle and Jeffrey R. Ferguson— Developing Reproducible Methods for Defining and Evaluating Ceramic Compositional Groups Derived from NAA and LA-ICP-MS

51-d Jillian Galle, Lindsay Bloch, Jeffrey Ferguson, Fraser Neiman and Suzanne Francis Brown— Ceramic Manufacturing and Distribution Networks in Early Jamaica: Interpretive Implications of LA-ICP-MS and NAA Analyses on Coarse Earthenwares from 18th-Century Plantation Contexts

Thursday Afternoon, April 12

[81] GENERAL SESSION SOUTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA FROM PREHISTORY TO THE CONTACT PERIOD

Room: Marriott Salon 3

1:45 Lindsay Bloch and Neill Wallis—Analysis of Surface Treatments on Weeden Island Red Vessels via pXRF

2:15 Amanda Hall—Uncovering the Mystery of the Lamar-like Clay Objects

[84] SYMPOSIUM SHELL MIDDENS: FORMATION, FUNCTION, SURVEY, AND ENDANGERED CULTURAL/PALEOENVIRONMENTAL HERITAGE
(Sponsored by GIG)

Room: Washington Room 3

2:00 Thomas Pluckhahn, Kendal Jackson and C. Trevor Duke—In Small Organisms Forgotten: Micro-fauna from Shell Middens at Crystal River (8CI1) and Roberts Island (8CI41) as Potential Proxies for Paleo-climate

[95] POSTER SESSION CERAMIC PETROGRAPHERS IN THE AMERICAS: PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT AND APPLICATION OF PETROGRAPHY IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Room: Exhibit Hall B South
 Time: 2:00 PM–4:00 PM

95-k  C. Trevor Duke, Neill Wallis and Ann Cordell—Mortuary Spaces as Social Power: Ceramic Exchange and Burial Practice at Safford Mound (8PI3)

95-l  Ann Cordell, Neill Wallis and Thomas Pluckhahn—Ceramic Petrography of Woodland Period Swift Creek Complicated Stamped Pottery in Florida and the Lower Southeastern United States

95-m  Zackary Gilmore and Kenneth Sassaman—Clay Resource Variability and Stallings Pottery Provenance along the Savannah and Ogeechee Rivers

Thursday Evening, April 12

[122] SYMPOSIUM AGENT OF CHANGE: THE DEPOSITION AND MANIPULATION OF ASH IN THE PAST

Room: Hoover

8:15 Kenneth Sassaman, Asa Randall and Neill J. Wallis—The As(h)cendant: Cosmological Work of Material Traces of Burning in the American Southeast

Saturday Afternoon, April 14

[278] FORUM COMMEMORATION, MEMORIALS, AND PRESERVATION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERESTS, EXPERTISE, AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Room: Park Tower Suite 8222
 Time: 1:00 PM–3:00 PM

Julia Hendon—Discussant
 Whitney Battle-Baptiste—Discussant Laurie Wilkie—Discussant Uzma Rizvi—Discussant
Leland Ferguson—Discussant Lindsay Bloch—Discussant
 Diane Wallman—Discussant

[301] POSTER SESSION WOODLAND ARCHAEOLOGY Room: Exhibit Hall B South

Time: 2:00 PM–4:00 PM

301-h  Mark Donop—Pot Souls and Kill Holes: Weeden Island Ceramics from Palmetto Mound, Florida