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50th ANNIVERSARY ABSTRACT BOOK 50th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology January 4-8, 2017 Fort Worth, Texas Page SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACTS 2-15 GENERAL SESSIONS 16-18 FORUM ABSTRACTS 19-23 INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS (Papers and Posters) 24-256 A 24-32 B 33-50 C 51-67 D 68-81 E 82-86 F 87-98 G 99-110 H 111-124 I 125-126 J 127-134 K 135-141 L 142-151 M 152-175 N 176-180 O 181-184 P 185-194 Q 195 R 196-206 S 207-226 T 227-232 U 233 V 234-239 W 240-251 Y 252 Z 253-254 1 SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACTS [SYM-004] Symposium: Setbacks and Solutions Within Archaeology Chair: Daniel A. Haddock (Forum Energy Technologies) Discussant: John A. Albertson (Forum Energy Technologies - GEMS) Professional archaeologists often encounter problems while conducting research, surveying, and interpreting data. These problems can come in the form of broken gear, faults in methodology, poorly collected data, and processing errors. This session will demonstrate how working archaeologists have overcome these obstacles within all aspects of archaeology. Presenters will share their insight into how these obstacles were overcome to help other archaeologists that may have or had the same issues. Session participants will identify problems they encountered and their solutions to provide a dialog of how to improve methodologies within our discipline. Texas Ballroom 1 – Thursday, 8:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. [SYM-001] Symposium: Memory, Materiality, and Alsatian Identity in Castroville, Texas Chair: Ruth M. Van Dyke (Binghamton University – SUNY) Discussant: Rachel J. Feit (AmaTerra Environmental) Historical archaeology in Castroville, Medina County, Texas offers an ideal forum for studying the interplay of identity, class, memory and materiality. In the 1840s, empresario Henri di Castro brought Alsatian settlers from the Rhine Valley to south Texas, where the new arrivals Joined established Mexican families, German immigrants, and displaced Apache. Today, Castroville town leaders see the celebration of Alsatian heritage as a source of economic growth and development. The Castro Colonies Heritage Association (CCHA) is transforming a 19th-century property called the Biry House into a focal point for Alsatian heritage tourism. In partnership with CCHA, Binghamton University has completed three excavation seasons at the property. The material record that we have unearthed provides a narrative that confirms, complicates and challenges written and remembered histories, illustrating how seven generations of house inhabitants constructed and contested Alsatian identity. Stockyards 3 – Thursday, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. [SYM-003] Symposium: "Same Same, but Different": Considerations and Approaches to Archaeology within the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Chairs: Dane. T. Magoon (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency), Owen L. O’Leary (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Discussants: Douglas Scott (Colorado Mesa University), Charles R. Ewen (East Carolina University) The recently formed Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has been assigned the task of providing the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel from past conflicts. This scope, which includes World War II through the end of the Vietnam War, represents approximately 83,000 missing U.S. service members associated with air, ground, and maritime losses that are worldwide in 2 distribution. The accounting effort is conducted within a forensic anthropological context; however, considering the age of the individual loss events, which occurred approximately 40 to 75 years ago, archaeological methods play a critical role in the recovery and identification process. There are also differences in the considerations and obJectives of DPAA archaeology versus those of academia and cultural resource management. The goal of this symposium is to provide a general introduction to the archaeology of the agency while exploring some of the agency-specific considerations of method and theory in actual practice. Texas Ballroom D – Thursday, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. [SYM-011] Symposium: Archaeologies of Workers’ Housing Chairs: Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool), Charlotte J. Newman (English Heritage), Suzanne Lilley (University of York) Discussant: Timothy J. Scarlett (Michigan Technological University) Archaeologists have frequently examined the evidence for agricultural and industrial workers, but there have been national and regional differences in focus. In some places the standing buildings and degree of settlement planning have been the primary concern, in others the artefactual assemblages associated with any structures have dominated discussion. This symposium draws out the social and symbolic significance of the workers’ housing, whether provided by employers, speculators, or constructed by the occupiers themselves. It emphasises the ways in which space was conceived, manipulated, adapted and used, and the insights that can be gained from analysis of the structures and the spatial arrangement of artefacts within and around them. The perspectives of architects, owners and occupants can all be considered within this rich and plentiful resource that has not always received the degree of attention it deserves. Texas Ballroom H – Thursday, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. [SYM-005] Symposium: Strategic Partnerships in Archaeology: A Community Approach to Raising Awareness and Preserving Maritime Heritage Chair: Kara E. Davis (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) Discussant: P. Brendan Burke (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program) Archaeological professionals have been collaborating to research and document our nation's maritime heritage. These collaborative efforts have assisted with enhancing the general public’s appreciation, understanding, and awareness of maritime heritage preservation. Furthermore, these partnerships have resulted in a number of archaeological proJects involving the surveying and mapping of shipwreck sites. Through strategic partnerships between federal, state, academic, and non-profit organizations, these archaeological projects capture relevant and accurate datasets, educate the public on the obJectives and methodologies of underwater archaeology, and help preserve and protect our nation's maritime heritage. Fort Worth Ballroom 6 – Thursday, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. [SYM-008] Symposium: Archeology Begins Along the Waterfront in Old Town Alexandria 3 Chairs: John P. Mullen (Thunderbird Archeology/Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc.), Daniel Balcy (Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc.) The City of Alexandria is one the more compelling history destinations in the country, due in no small part to the City’s decision to integrate historic preservation into the revitalization and development. After decades of planning and delays from numerous lawsuits, the City moved forward with the redevelopment of its waterfront, beginning with Point Lumley. The waterfront originally consisted of high bluffs overlooking the Potomac, stretching northwards from this Point along a shallow crescent-shaped bay. By 1798, these high bluffs had been cut down and spread out on the tidal flats in order to improve access to the deep-water channel. Point Lumley was the location of numerous industries, warehouses and residences during the late 18th and 19th centuries, including shipbuilders, blacksmiths, carpenters, coopers, iron foundries, and commission merchants. This session focuses on the recent archeological work at the Hotel Indigo site that was required by the City prior to redevelopment. Texas Ballroom C – Thursday, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. [SYM-010] Symposium: Advancing Frontiers in the 21st century: Reconsidering Colonial Encounters in the Atlantic World Chairs: Barbara Heath (University of Tennessee), Julia A. King (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) Discussant: Phillip Levy (University of South Florida) This session takes as its point of departure the conference theme, "Advancing Frontiers," a phrase inviting archaeologists to imagine the nature of our research in 50 years. It may also be a play on the discipline's first 50 years, which drew on the notion of the "frontier" as a framework for documenting and interpreting colonial encounters. This framework soon came under fire as one that reproduced rather than challenged colonial relations, in the past and in the present. In this session, authors build on these critiques through the lens of postcolonial theory, rethinking frontiers as locally constituted by specific spatial, material, discursive, and representational practices, while defined broadly by fluidity, violence, and conflicting visions of the post-frontier future. Texas Ballroom H – Thursday, 1:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. [SYM- 006] Symposium: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reinterpreting Jamestown through Archaeology, History, Science, and Technology Chairs: William Kelso (James Rediscovery Foundation), Lisa E. Fischer (James Rediscovery Foundation) Since the beginning of the Jamestown Rediscovery project in 1994, archaeologists have established the location of James Fort’s palisades, maJor buildings, and many significant features. The team has also recovered more than two million artifacts, many from tightly-dated contexts. The proJect has resulted in important new insights into the settlement’s early years and has cast doubt on many conventional interpretations of Jamestown's history. Even after two decades, archaeologists are still making significant discoveries, not Just through the excavation process but also through the application of new methods not imaginable at the proJect’s start. Re- 4 analysis of the extensive