Schedule of Events

Friday: 3 February 2012 5:00-6:00 Executive Committee Meetings 6:00-10:00 Reception Sponsored by Jessica Crawford & Pritchett Engineering & Planning Chocolate After-Party hosted by Pritchett Engineering & Planning

Saturday: 4 February 2012 7:30-8:00 Registration and Welcome 8:00-11:15 Presentations 11:15-1:00 Lunch (on your own) 1:00-3:00 Presentations 3:00-4:00 Business Meeting 7:00-10:30 Banquest & Keynote Speaker Dr. Gregory Waselkov will discuss “Archaeological Research in Eastern Mississippi Territory:The Creek War and Old Federal Road.”

Sunday: 5 February 2012 Presentation 8:30-8:45 Dr. Jay Johnson will discuss the geophysical work at Graveline, LaPointe-Krebs House, and the Grand Bay shell middens.

Site Tours Following the presentation, there will be a site tour departing the hotel at 9 am. This tour will be led by Lauren Downs, Bonnie Gums, and Ed Jackson. Destinations: Graveline Mound in Gautier, Mississippi LaPointe-Krebs House in Pascagoula, Mississippi Grand Bay in Moss Point, Mississippi

Saturday 4 February 2012 Poster Presentation

Brittany Dunn, Forrest Follett and Nicholas Herrmann (Mississippi State University) Analysis of lithic raw material and prehistoric pottery from two sites within the Mill Creek drainage of the Tombigbee National Forest, Winston County, Mississippi Saturday 4 February 2012 Program

7:30-8:00 Coffee and Donuts, Welcome

8:00 Pamela Lieb (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) Recap of 2011, MDAH and Archaeology in Mississippi

8:15 Samuel Huey (University of Southern Mississippi) A Grand Bay Archaeological Ceramic Study

8:30 Chris E. Wiggins (Jackson County Historical and Genealogical Society) Search for the Moss Point Cannon: A Paradigm for Community Involvement

8:45 Barbara Hester (University of Southern Mississippi) Kitchen Talk: An Analysis of Historic Aboriginal Ceramics Recovered from the French Warehouse Site (22HR638), Ship Island, Mississippi

9:00 Patty Miller-Beech (Mississippi Department of Archives and History Prisoners in the Magnolias: German POWs at Camp Shelby

9:15 Rita McCarty (Mississippi Army National Guard) Carts, Incinerators, and World War I Water Wells: Recent Discoveries at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center

9:30 –9:45 BREAK

9:45 Stephen Harris (University of Mississippi) Geophysical Investigations at the Shady Grove Site

10:00 C Brady Davis, Katy Grant, Tyler Cargill, Heather Guzik, Susan Ou bre, and Marie Danforth (University of Southern Mississippi) Update of On-Going Research of Human Remains Recovered in the Shady Grove Ossuary, Quitman Co, MS

10:15 Kim Harrison (University of Mississippi) The Walford Site - A Yazoo Basin Study

10:30 Jayur Mehta (Tulane University) and Rachel Stout-Evans (National Resources Conservation Service) A Report on the 2011 Excavations at the Carson Mounds site (22CO505), Coahoma County, Mississippi Saturday 4 February 2012 10:45 Evan Peacock (Mississippi State University) Artifact Assemblages from Two Early Middle Woodland Tchula Period Sites on the Holly Springs National Forest, North Mississippi

11:00 John W. O’Hear (University of Mississippi), Vincas P. Steponaitis and Megan C. Kassabaum (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Anti-Mound and Ghost Barrier: A Report on Work at the Feltus Site in 2010 and 2011

11:15-1:00 Lunch (on your own)

1:00 Jesse Morton (Mississippi State University) Paradigmatic Classification for Lithics at Lyon’s Bluff

1:15 Jason Ervin (Mississippi State University) An Analysis of Lithic Material at Lyons’ Bluff: Addressing Bias Arising From Systematic Differences Between Analysts

1:30 Jessica Gisler, Jason Ervin, and Jesse Morton (Mississippi State University) Lithic Scarcity at 22OK520 (Lyon’s Bluff)

1:45 Robert Reams (US Forest Service), Sabrina Wilke, Rhonda Fore, & Roy Fore (Mississippi Archaeological Association) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Experiments with Pottery Making – Phase One

2:00 BREAK

2:15 David Abbott (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) Petrography and Clay Sourcing in Natchez: A Study of Fatherland (22Ad501) Ceramics

2:30 Jay K. Johnson and Edward H. Henry (University of Mississippi) Excavations at the South Thomas Street Site (22Le1002): An Early 18th Century Site Located on the Periphery of the Major Chickasaw Settlement in Northeastern Mississippi

2:45 Brad Lieb (Chickasaw Nation) Hatchet Women and Haute Couture: The Search for Ackia and Okla Tchitoka

3:00 Business Meeting