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Our Cultural Legacy: Current Research, Methods and Reports Council for Minnesota Archaeology 2013 Conference February 8th and 9th Inver Hills Community College Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota Program and Abstracts Sponsored by: Council for Minnesota Archaeology Minnesota Archaeological Society Archaeology Department of the Minnesota Historical Society Inver Hills Community College Anthropology Department Inver Hills Community College Anthropology Club Minnesota Office of the State Archaeologist Symposium Committee: Patricia Emerson - Archaeology Department of the Minnesota Historical Society Jeremy L. Nienow - Inver Hills Community College Anthropology Department Bruce Koenen - Office of the State Archaeologist Pre-Conference Events: Thursday, February 7th Book Exchange and Lithic Collection Open House On the Thursday evening before the CMA Conference (February 7, 2013) from 6:00 to 7:30 pm the Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) will host a book exchange at the Historic Fort Snelling Visitor Center. At the same time researchers involved with the Minnesota Historical Society lithic comparative collection will host an open house also at the Historic Fort Snelling Visitor Center showcasing recent developments with the lithic comparative collection. The OSA has accumulated a number of duplicate reports, textbooks and periodicals which will be available free to researchers beginning at 6 pm. Subject matter ranges from Minnesota archaeology through all of the subfields of anthropology. Archaeologists and researchers attending the conference are invited to bring books to share, with the caveat that you are responsible for taking home your own books if no one else takes them. The subject matter should also be of an anthropological or historical nature. If you have publications you would like to sell either bring a price list of your books, including your contact information to post, or contact the OSA and we will arrange some space for you (612-725-2729). If you wish to sell your books make sure they are clearly priced and you are responsible for completing the transactions, the OSA will not be doing sales. The lithic researchers have continued to add additional material to the collection which has grown to over 1400 samples. Current research focuses on recording attributes for all of the samples including color, color pattern, texture, translucency and magnetic response. A searchable table of the attributes will allow researchers to identify comparative samples from the collection when identifying an unknown material. CMA 2013 Conference page - 2 Session Information: Friday, February 8th 8:00 – 9:00 Refreshments (HH Lobby) 9:10 – 9:25 Welcome: CMA Organizers Session 1 (Room HH203): Using LiDAR in Minnesota Archaeology: A Workshop 9:30 – 9:40 Welcome and Introductory remarks – Joe Artz and Scott Anfinson An Introduction to LiDAR 9:40 – 10:00 Introduction to the Minnesota LiDAR project – Tim Loesch 10:00 – 10:20 LiDAR Technology Overview – Emilia Bristol 10:20 – 10:40 LiDAR: Uses in Archaeology - Joe Artz The LiDAR Project: Finding Mounds with LiDAR 10:40 – 11:00 Georeferencing Existing Maps – Bill Whittaker 11:00 – 11:20 LiDAR Prospection: Methods and Results – Emilia Bristol Open Session 11:20 – 11:40 Discussion 11:40 – 12:30 Live Demonstrations 12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (available on or off campus – see program for details) Session 2 (Room HH203): Papers in Honor of Seppo Valppu (Friday) 2:00 – 2:20 Seppo H. Valppu: A Retrospective of a Renaissance Man - Susan C. Mulholland 2:25 – 2:45 Running into a Wall (in a Good Way): An Update on the Protohistoric Burned House Excavation at Petaga Point - David Mather, Jim Cummings 2:50 – 3:10 Big Rice Lake Site: Wild Rice, Haggis, and Turkey Dogs - Stephen L. Mulholland 3:10 – 3:20 Break 3:20 – 3:40 Probable Presence of Wild Rice in Northeast Minnesota during the Late Paleoindian Period Inferred by Poaceae Pollen Grain Size Frequency Data - James K. Huber 3:45 - 4:05 Food Residues and Plant Microfossils: New Approaches to Paleodietary Analysis in the Boreal Forest - Alexandra Burchill, Matthew Boyd CMA 2013 Conference page - 3 Session 3 (Room HH206): Historic Trade and Transportation 2:30 – 2:50 Waysides along the Highway: Examining three fur trade era sites in the Eastern Boundary Waters region through material culture analysis - Lee Johnson 2:55 – 3:15 Applications of Gunflint and Percussion Cap Analyses to the Interpretation of a Fur Trade Period Archaeological Site - Matthew Mattson 3:20 – 3:40 Iron in the Forest: Fur Trade History Told by Iron Axes Recovered in Aitkin, Ashland, Bayfield, Carlton, Cook, Douglas, Lake and St. Louis Counties - David H. Peterson 3:45 – 4:05 To Woman Lake in a Buckboard: The Pine River to Woman Lake Stagecoach Road - Christy Hohman-Caine, Grant E Goltz 4:05 – 4:45 Minnesota Archaeological Society & Council for Minnesota Archaeology Sponsored Reception (HH 203 and HH Lobby) 4:45 2013 Annual Meeting Council for Minnesota Archaeology (HH203) (Executive Officers meeting immediately after if necessary) (This is a great opportunity to pay your 2013 dues!) Conference reconvenes Saturday morning at 9:00am CMA 2013 Conference page - 4 Ongoing Conference Presented Posters (HH Lobby & Hallway) Applying LiDAR in Archaeological Reconnaissance. - Mike Magner Subsurface and Micro-topographic Mapping of Historic Twin Cities Cemeteries. - Geoff Jones and David Maki LiDAR and Shallow Subsurface Geophysical Methods: A Combined Approach for Studying Archaeological Sites in Minnesota. - David Maki, Geoffrey Jones, and Sigrid Arnott Improved Archeological Site Identification using LIDAR: An example from McLeod County, Minnesota - Rama Mohapatra, Austin Jenkins, Cynthia Miller, Alison Hruby, Gina Aulwes, Ginger Schmid, Forrest Wilkerson, Donald Friend, and Dale E. Maul How Did They Do It? The Experimental Archaeology of Carving Sioux Quartzite - Tom Sanders Remote Sensing on a Budget: Tools Even an Archaeologist Can Afford - Chuck Broste Computer aided mapping of Browns Valley fortification. - Paul Robert Carlson - Minnesota State University Moorhead Scorched Earth; Archaeological Survey of the Lower Isabella Lake Region within the Pagami Creek Fire Area of the Superior National Forest, Lake County, MN - Kyleleen Cullen New Approaches from Old Data: Using GIS to Understand the Maurer (21GD96) Site. - Jasmine C. Koncur GIS in the Field: Immediate Data Feedback During Site Investigation. - Andrew Brown Mapping Mosquito Terrace - Jaclyn Skinner CMA 2013 Conference page - 5 th Session Information: Saturday, February 19 9:00 – 9:30 Refreshments (HH Lobby) Session 4 (Room HH203): Papers in Honor of Seppo Valppu (Saturday) 9:30 – 9:50 Investigation of Three Fire-Cracked Rock Features from Precontact Period Sites in Minnesota State Parks - Dave Radford, LeRoy Gonsior 9:55 – 10:15 Hot Rock, Pits and FCR, Radiocarbon Dates and Evidence of Food Processing: How Microbotanical and Archaeochemical Analyses Contribute to Site Interpretation - Chad Yost, Linda Scott Cummings 10:20 – 10:40 Cooking Rocks! The Construction, Use, and Excavation of an Experimental Earth Oven - Jim Cummings 10:40 – 10:50 Break 10:50 – 11:10 Initial Results of the Botanical Analysis from the Langseth Site (21NO11), Nobles County, Minnesota - Jared A. Langseth 11:15 – 11:35 Preliminary Report on the Botanical Remains of Two Features from the Silvernale Site (21GD03), Goodhue County, Minnesota - Travis G. Hager 11:40 – 12:00 Thoughts on Plant Use in the Red Wing Locality - Ronald C. Schirmer 12:00 – 1:40 Lunch (Available off campus) Session 5 (Room HH206): New Research in the Rock Art of the Mid-continent 9:30 – 9:50 The Ongoing Process of Preserving the Jeffers Petroglyphs - Tom Sanders 9:55 – 10:15 Conservation Work at the Jeffers Petroglyphs Historic Site - Chuck, Broste CMA 2013 Conference page - 6 Session 5 (Room HH206) Continued 10:20 – 10:40 Comparison of two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional scans from Jeffers Petroglyphs - John Soderberg 10:40 – 10:50 Break 10:50 – 11:10 The Past, Recently. New Sites, New Images, New Information From Canoe Country Pictographs - Bob Evans 11:15 – 11:35 Exploring Southwest Minnesota's Red Rock Ridge - Tom Sanders 11:40 – 12:00 Archaeology At An Aboriginal Engraving Site - Jack Steinbring 12:05 – 12:25 See the Invisible, Test the Rumor, Identify the Pigments: Photo Techniques Used in Studying Quetico and Boundary Waters Pictographs - Bob Evans 12:30 – 1:40 Lunch (Available off campus) Session 6 (Room HH206): Managing the Past & New Research in Maritime and Industrial Archaeology 1:40 – 2:00 Curation for the Seventh Generation - Nancy Hoffman 2:05 – 2:25 The State of the State Site Files 2013 - Bruce Koenen 2:30 – 2:50 Minnesota’s Maritime Cultural Legacy: Surveys, Documentation, and Assessment - Ann Merriman and Christopher Olson - Maritime Heritage Minnesota 2:50 – 3:00 Break 3:00 – 3:20 Archaeological Investigation of the New London Mill - Mike Magner CMA 2013 Conference page - 7 Session 6 (Room HH206) Continued 3:25 – 3:45 Big Pits, little pits, found pits, more pits: Ongoing Cultural Resource Survey of Lake Vermilion State Park - Doug George 3:50 – 4:10 The Cultural Legacy of Iron Mining on the Cuyuna Range - Fred Sutherland Session 7 (Room HH203): New Research in Prehistoric Archaeology 1:40 – 2:00 Up a (Sometimes) Lazy River: The Cloquet River Survey in Northeastern Minnesota - Stephen Mulholland and Susan Mulholland 2:05 - 2:25 Re-Assessing the Plains Village Cultures of Minnesota - George Holley, Mike Michlovic, Rinita A. Dalan 2:30 – 2:50 Evidence for an Early Maple Sugaring Camp on Leech Lake in Cass County, Minnesota - Christy Hohman-Caine, Grant E Goltz 2:50 – 3:00 Break 3:00 – 3:20 Between a Rock and Hard Place I: Geoarchaeology Investigations at the Knife Lake Quarries 2012 - Susan Mulholland and Dan Wendt 3:25 – 3:45 Between a Rock and a Hard Place II: Geoarchaeology and Evidence for Selective Use of Quarry Sourced Knife Lake Siltstone - Dan Wendt and Susan Mulholland Thank you for attending the 2013 Conference – have a safe journey home! CMA 2013 Conference page - 8 Poster Abstracts Applying LiDAR in Archaeological Reconnaissance.