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FOC Preliminary Schedule MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER MISSION STATEMENT e Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center (MPMRC), part of the government of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, is a non-prot educational institution that seeks to further knowledge and understanding of the richness and diversity of the indigenous cultures and societies of the United States and Canada. To accomplish this mission, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center conducts and supports research and the development of ethnographic, archival, library, and archaeological collections and provides programs and exhibits that encourage interaction with and among indigenous peoples, the general public, and the scholarly community. CONFERENCE SPONSORS e Fields of Conict 2018 conference has been made possible by: n Grant - U.S. National Park Service, American Battleeld Protection Program n Gold Sponsor - General Society of Colonial Wars n University of Connecticut Special thanks to the following conference supporters: n Connecticut Explored n Denison Homestead Museum n Hard Rock Café n New South Associates n Second World War Museum, Gdańsk, Poland e Fields of Conict, Provisional Working Group, welcomes you to the Tenth Biennial Fields of Conict Conference hosted by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center. ADDRESS WELCOME For the next four days you will be surrounded by some of the best and brightest of conict archaeologists from across the globe. Like all great ideas, Fields of Conict (FOC) was born in a pub in 1998 when co-founders Phil W. M. Freeman and Anthony “Tony” Pollard pondered the idea of gathering battleeld archaeologists together to discuss issues unique to their subject. With a call for papers, they were overwhelmed at the response, and since that rst meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2000, Fields of Conict has grown exponentially. is tenth meeting includes some 90 papers from 17 countries. With a great venue like the museum and research center, we are excited to be a part of this edition of FOC 2018 and look forward to meeting old friends and making new. Please take a moment to thank our hosts and introduce yourselves to us at the center. Joanna Ball • Charles M. Haecker • Doug D. Scott Damian Shiels • Michelle D. Sivilich • Steven D. Smith ____________________________________ On behalf of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, I would like to thank all of you for participating in the 2018 FOC Conference. In the ten years that we have been conducting research on seventeenth century Native-Colonial conicts we have come to appreciate how important battleeld studies are for understanding the past. Many of you have graciously provided help and guidance to us in various forms over the years and we continue to learn from your research. We are very proud and excited to host the conference, and I am looking forward to meeting all of you. Kevin McBride Director of Research Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center is European engraving presents a stylized view of the assault on the fortied Pequot village at Mystic. e image was made in 1638 to illustrate an account written by Captain John Underhill — one of the leaders of the attack on May 26, 1637, in which as many as 600 Pequots were killed. 2 \ FOC CONFERENCE \ 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS MPMRC Mission Statement ...................................IFC Conference Sponsors .........................................IFC Welcome Address ...............................................1 Session Protocol ................................................3 Conference Organizers ..........................................3 Preliminary Schedule: SESSION Wednesday Sessions/Events. .4 ursday Sessions/Events ....................................5 PROTOCOL Poster Sessions ...........................................6 Because of the number of Friday Sessions/Events .......................................7 presentations, we have felt it necessary to have concurrent Saturday Sessions/Events ................................... 10 sessions ursday through Saturday Film Screening ................................ 12 Saturday to accommodate Banquet Dinner ........................................ 13 all of the excellent papers. Sunday Field Excursion .................................... 14 As such, it is extremely important to adhere precisely Abstracts .................................................... 15 to the time frame allowed Biographies .................................................. 39 for each paper. Final Paper Procedures ........................................ 53 Each presenter will be Poster Requirements .......................................... 54 allotted exactly 20 minutes to present and will be alerted Banquet Dinner Menu ......................................... 55 by the session chair at the Airports/Directions ........................................... 56 ve minute mark, and will Hotel Information ............................................ 57 be alerted at the two- and one-minute intervals. e session chairs’ responsibility will be to introduce the presenters, follow the prearranged schedule and help facilitate the discussion in the 10 minute Q&A at the end of each session. Following Conical Point on display in the Pequot War Gallery, MPMRC. the Q&A there will be a 10 minute break and a prompt start time for the CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS upcoming session. Co-Chairs Advisory Committee __________ Kevin McBride Joanna Ball Ashley Bissonnette Charles M. Haecker Please be respectful to the David Naumec Doug D. Scott presenters and the audience Damian Shiels by turning o or silencing Organizer Michelle D. Sivilich all electronic devices. Michael Derderian Steven D. Smith 2018 \ FOC CONFERENCE \ 3 PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WEDNESDAY • SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 9:00-4:00PM Registration: Group Entrance, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center 10:00-12:00PM Archaeology lab tours and tour of Monhantic Fort Site (Pequot fortied village ca. 1675-1680) AFTERNOON SESSION • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH 1:00-1:30PM Welcome Address: Rodney Butler, Tribal Chairman, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Kevin McBride, Director of Research, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Steven D. Smith, Member, Fields of Conict Committee Surveying the Field II: A Further Look into the Future of Conict Archaeology Session Chairs: Michelle D. Sivilich, University of South Florida & Carl Drexler, University of Arkansas 1:30-1:50PM Between the Lines: e Archaeology of the Siege of Petersburg Presenters: Philip Shiman, Historian, David Lowe, U.S. National Park Service, Julia Steele, U.S. National Park Service 1:50-2:10PM Excavating KOCOA: e Past, Present, and Future of American Conict Archaeology’s Favorite Tool Presenter: Carl Drexler, University of Arkansas 2:10-2:30PM e Materiality of Roman Battle: Applying Conict Archaeology Methods to the Roman World Presenter: Joanne E. Ball, University of Liverpool 2:30-2:40PM Break 2:40-3:00PM Conquest vs. Conict in the American Southwest: Archaeology, Indigenous Perspectives, and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 Presenter: Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University 3:00-3:20PM e Second Battle of Princeton: Field Notes from Compliance Archeology at Conict Sites Presenters: Matthew Palus and Lyle C. Torp, Ottery Group 3:20-3:40PM Marching Into e Future of Seminole War Studies Presenter: Michelle D. Sivilich, University of South Florida 3:40-3:50PM QA 4:00-5:00PM Fields of Conict business meeting & award ceremony EVENING EVENTS • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH 5:30-7:00PM e Grill at Two Trees (cash bar and hors d’oeuvres) Musket Balls on display in the Pequot War Gallery, MPMRC. 4 \ FOC CONFERENCE \ 2018 THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 8:00-4:00PM Registration: Group Entrance, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center MORNING SESSIONS • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH Methods In Conict Archeology Maritime Conict Archeology Session chair: Jennifer F. McKinnon Session chair: Timothy J. Abel 8:30- e Netherlands During the Napoleonic Era 8:30- Battle of e Java Sea: Past and Present 8:50AM (1794-1815). Using Detector Finds to Shed 8:50AM Conicts Light on an Under-Researched Period Presenters: Martijn Manders and Robert Presenter: Vincent van der Veen, Vrije de Hoop, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Universiteit Amersterdam Netherlands 8:50- “St Kilda at War” and the Historic Aircra 8:50- “Baggensstäket 1719: e Assault on e 9:10AM Archaeology Survey Project [HAASP]: Current 9:10AM Redoubt at Never Existed” Results and Future Planning Research Presenter: Tomas Englund, Maritime Presenter: Terence Christian, Temple University Archaeological Research Institute 9:10- Musket Balls from the Boston Massacre - Are 9:10- A Battleship In e Wilderness: e Story of the 9:30AM ey Authentic? 9:30AM Chippewa and Lake Ontario’s Forgotten War of Presenters: Dan Sivilich, BRAVO and Joel Bohy, 1812 Naval Shipyard Skinner Auctions Presenter: Timothy J. Abel 9:30- Revisiting the US Military ‘Levels of War’ 9:30- Westerplatte – e Symbol 9:50AM Model as a Conceptual Tool in Conict 9:50AM Presenter: Grzegorz Berendt, University of Archaeology: A Case Study of WW2 Gdańsk Landscapes in Normandy, France Presenters: David G. Passmore, Uiversity of Toronto, David Capps Tunwell, Université de Caen-Normandie, Stephan Harrison, Exeter University 9:50- Break 9:50- Q&A 10:00AM 10:00AM 10:00- Experimental Firing, and Analysis of Impacted 10:00- Poster Session 10:20AM 17th-18th Century Lead Bullets 12:00PM (*Please refer to following page for a list Presenter: Colin Parkman, University of of poster topics and presenters) Hudderseld 10:20- A Decade of
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