The upcoming meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 10-15 in Washington, D.C. will feature papers and posters by many Florida Archaeology staff and alumni. Come and see what we’ve been up to! A more complete list of FLMNH participation here.

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 J. 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

[89] GENERAL SESSION EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: Thurgood Marshall Ballroom South

4:15 Donna Ruhl-Isotopes & Curation: New Lessons Learned from Legacy Waterlogged Wooden Artifacts

[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