SOCIETY FOR PENNSYLVANIA ARCHAEOLOGY
78ND ANNUAL MEETING - APRIL 2007

Program

    FRIDAY, 20 APRIL

    PENNSYLVANIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL COUNCIL

9:00 a.m.    Business Meeting

    SOCIETY FOR PENNSYLVANIA ARCHAEOLOGY

Noon to 6 p.m.    Registration
Noon to 6 p.m.    Book Sales and Exhibits

PENNSYLVANIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL COUNCIL
2007 Spring PAC Symposium
Site Encapsulation (Intentional Site Burial): Historic Preservation?

AGENDA

1:30 p.m.    Introduction    Paul Raber, Pennsylvania Archaeological Council

1:40 p.m.    Preservation in Place in Pennsylvania: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?     Scott C. Shaffer, Historic Resource Specialist, The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

2:00 p.m.    Burying the Past: Observations on Unintentional Site Reburial at the Johnston Site, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Sarah W. Neusius and Beverly A. Chiarulli, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

2:20 p.m.    Break

2:30 p.m.    Archaeological Sites and Preservation in Place. Steven McDougal, Historic Preservation Specialist, Bureau for Historic Preservation, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

2:50 p.m.    Open Discussion


7:30 p.m.    SPA BOARD MEETING

8:30 p.m.    HOSPITALITY SUITE
 
 

SATURDAY MORNING, 21 APRIL

Registration: 8 a.m. to Noon
Book Sales and Exhibits: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

8:00 a.m.    SPA General Business Meeting

9:00 a.m.    WELCOME

Over the Hills and Far Away:
The Archaeology of Marginal, Backwoods, or Otherwise Out of the Way Places.

9:10 a.m.    Bailey, Daniel N. - A.D. Marble & Company, Inc.
Seek and ye shall find: Two preserved Woodland sites in the uplands of Bucks County.

9:30 a.m.    Walker, Jesse O. - Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. and Timothy Messner - Temple University
Living In the Shadow of The Mighty Delaware: Late Prehistory Along A Major Tributary.

9:50 a.m.    Coppock, Gary - Heberling Associates, Inc.
"What are YOU doin' here?": An Unexpected Site on the Allegheny Escarpment.

10:10 a.m.    BREAK

10:30 a.m.    Espino, Jason, G Travis Bercel, and Benjamin Scharff - Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology
Far From Home, Southern Traits on a Northern Vessel: A Check-stamped Pot from a Venango County Rock Shelter.

10:50 a.m.    Burns, Jonathan and Andrew Wyatt - AXIS Research, Inc. and Temple University
Rockshelters as Persistent Places: The View from Camelback.

11:10 a.m.    Chiarulli, Beverly A.  & Sarah W. Neusius - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
New Dates from the IUP Late Prehistoric Project.

11:30 a.m.    Herbstritt, James and Douglas C. McLearen - Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
        Quaker Hills Quarry Site (36LA1100): An Update.

11:50 a.m.    LUNCH
 
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 21 APRIL

1:10 p.m.    Fritz, Brian L. - Clarion University of Pennsylvania
GIS based distance-decay modeling of the cultural distribution of Shriver and Loyalhanna chert.

1:30 p.m.    Vento, Frank - Clarion University of Pennsylvania
"Deep Loot": Results of the Geomorphology Deep Testing Grant - Upper Allegheny and Clarion Rivers, Pennsylvania.

1:50 p.m.    Means, Bernard K. - Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Washington and Lee University
Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition: Understanding Community Variability in the Allegheny Mountains Region.

2:10 p.m.    Sutton, J. T. - KCI Technologies, Inc.
Exploring the Monongahelas’ southern margins: an overview of the Fort Hill Site, a Middle Monongahela Village located in Morgantown, West Virginia.

2:30 p.m.    Carr, Kurt W. and Douglas C. McLearen - Bureau for Historic Preservation / Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
One of history's mysteries – Where's the "fort" at Fort Hunter Mansion? The Preliminary Results from Field Testing at a French and Indian War Military Site in Dauphin County.

2:50 p.m.    Valko, Amanda and Brian Fritz - North Fork Chapter #29, SPA
Excavations at the Frazier Sawmill Blacksmith Shop.

3:10 p.m.    Kintz, Theresa and Brian Deihl - Wilkes University and SPA Frances Dorrance
        Chapter 11
Archaeology for the People: Incorporating Interests, or, Why We Were Digging in the Church Basement.

3:30 p.m.    Price, Edward J. - The Millbrook Society and Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology
Locating an 18th Century Church.

3:50 p.m.    Warfel, Stephen G. - State Museum of Pennsylvania
Windows on the Past: The Results of 2006 Archaeological Testing at Ephrata Cloister.

4:10 p.m.    Primitive Games

6:00 p.m.    Cash Bar

6:30 p.m.    Annual Banquet and Program; Guest Speaker: Timothy Messner, Temple University - More than meets the eye: starch grain analysis and its utility for understanding prehistoric plant use in Pennsylvania and beyond.

    Awards Presentation followed by Auction
Hospitality Suite: Open immediately after auction.
 

SUNDAY, 22 APRIL

9:30 a.m.     Nass, John P., Jr. and Andre Parquette - California University of Pennsylvania.
An Analytical Characterization of Ceramic Containers from the Jones Site (36Gr4), an early Monongahela Settlement in Greene County, Pennsylvania.

9:50 a.m.    Johnson, William C. - Baker Environmental and Bernard K. Means - Washington and Lee University
Reexamining the Massawomeck-Monongahela Connection.

10:10 a.m.    Myers, Andrew J. - Appalachian Archaeological Consultants
Paleoindians on the Allegheny River: An Update of Findings from Indian Camp Run (36FO65).

 10:30 a.m.    Gingerich, Joseph A.M. - University of Wyoming and Joseph R. Blondino - Temple University.
        Update on Paleoindian Research at the Shawnee-Minisink Site.

10:50 a.m.    Strattan, Noël - CRGIS Coordinator, PHMC
        New PASS Forms: More Data, More Paper, Less Time.

 


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