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MIDDLE ATLANTIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE MARCH 24 - 26, 2000 OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND NOTES 30th Annual Meeting of the MIDDLE ATLANTIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE March 24 - 26, 2000 Princess Royale Ocean City, Maryland Officers and Organizers President Christopher Bergman President-Elect Edward Otter Treasurer Alice Guerrant Recording Secretary Douglas W. Sanford Membership Secretary Faye Stocum Board Member at Large David Mudge Journal Editor Roger W. Moeller Program Chair Roger W. Moeller Arrangements Chair Kurt Carr Web sites: www.Siftings.com/maac.html www. Quad5 0 .com/maac.htm 1 www.American.edu/maac/maac.html 26 Rebecca J. Morehouse Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory [email protected] Melba J. Myers Virginia Department of Historic Resources [email protected] Paul A. Nevin SPA Chapter 28, ESRARA [email protected] Michael M. Palus Dept Anthropology, University Of Maryland [email protected] Douglas W. Sanford Mary Washington College [email protected] Dwayne Scheid Mary Washington College dscheid.381 [email protected] Carole Sinclair-Smith Monmouth County Historical Association [email protected] Megan Springate Monmouth County Historical Association [email protected] . Michael Stewart Temple University [email protected] Michael S. Tomaso Montclair State University [email protected] Richard F. Veit Monmouth University [email protected] Frank Vento Clarion University [email protected] Stanley L. Walling Montclair State University [email protected] Kristin J. Ward Mary Washington College kward5 [email protected] Stephen G. Warfel The State Museum Of Pennsylvania [email protected]. us Lynn-Marie Wieland Hunter College [email protected] Emily Williams Colonial Williamsburg ewi 11 [email protected] Lisa Young Alexandria Conservation Svcs [email protected] 25 William M. Gardner Catholic University [email protected] Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference Brandon Grodnitsky Archaeological Testing And March 24 - 26, 2000 Consulting Ocean City, Maryland [email protected] Lucia Hamett National Museum Of Ireland PROGRAM [email protected] Phillip J. Hill Archaeological Testing And Consulting Friday Morning March 24 Robert M. Jacoby Louis Berger and Associates [email protected] 9:00- 12:00 JACK CRESSON Lithic Workshop Gregory M. Katz Temple University Friday Afternoon March 24 I I [email protected] Mechelle L. Kerns The Lost Towns Of Anne Arundel General Session: DOUGLAS SANFORD, chair Project [email protected] I :00-l :20 META JANOWITZ Stonewares from the African Burial Ground: Not All Spiral Micha�J J. Klein William and Mary Center For -fVL / Motifs Come From New Jersey r0� Archaeological Research , I :20-l :40 DOUGLAS SANFORD _ � [email protected] Putting Survey Results to Work: Comparing Local and , 0 Darrin Lowery Temple University Regional Models for Site Location [email protected] .net 1 :40-2:00 CYNTHIA W. AUMAN Ludomir R. Lozny Louis Berger Associates/hunter Excavations Along the State Route 1 Corridor in Delaware College 2:00-2:20 KURT CARR and CHRISTOPHER BERGMAN [email protected] The Use of Bifacial Core Technology and Blade Core James Marine KCI Technologies Inc Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region [email protected] 2:20-2:40 JOHN BEDELL Bernard Klaus Means Alexandria Archaeology Museum The Puncheon Run Site and the Settlement System of the St. Jones Valley I ganapati2@ao I .com Patricia Miller KCI Technologies Inc 2:40-3:00 Break [email protected] Paula Miller CHRS Inc General Session: MICHAEL KLEIN, chair [email protected] Paul Frederick Mintz The Lost Towns Of Anne Arundel 3:00-3:20 MARTIN GALLIVAN and MICHAEL J. KLEIN Project Late Prehistoric Social Transformation in the Southern Middle pmintz 1 @gl.umbc.edu Atlantic: A Multi-scalar Analysis Roger W. Moeller Archaeological Services 3:20-3:40 MICHAEL B. BARBER [email protected] The Bone Grave Goods from the Shannon Site (44MY8), [email protected] Montgomery County, Virginia: Boniness Versus Symbolic Value 24 3:40-4:00 GREGORY M. KATZ Presenter's Affiliation and E-mail Address Heat Treatment and Characterization of Pennsylvania's Stony Ridge Chert Cynthia W. Auman Parsons Engineering Science, Inc 4:00-4:20 ROBERT M. JACOBY [email protected] Come and Get It: A Recipe for Protein Residue Analysis Michael B. Barber George Washington and Jefferson Friday Evening March 24 National Forests [email protected] 7:30 ROGER W. MOELLER Kenneth J. Basalik CHRS Inc A Post-Apocalyptic View of Archaeology: A Lesson in Current Events [email protected] Co Ii n Beaven Archaeological Testing and Saturday Morning March 25 Consulting General Session: CHRISTOPHER FENNELL, chair co Ii n_ [email protected] Marshall Joseph Becker West Chester University 8:00-8:20 DARRIN LOWERY [email protected] The Paleoindian Period of the Central Delmarva Peninsula: John C. Bedell The Louis Berger Group What do the Data Suggest? jbedel [email protected] 8:20-8:40 CHRISTOPHER FENNELL Christopher Bergman 3DE Group Of BGE Environmental Ethnicities and Material Culture: Inferring Past Identities from [email protected] Spiritual Beliefs and Practices. David Bibler KCI Technologies Inc 8:40-9:00 MICHAEL J. KLEIN and JOSH DUNCAN [email protected] The Cabin Run Site (44WR3) and Prestige Goods Exchange in Varna Boyd Greenhome & O'Mara, Inc the Southern Middle Atlantic Region 9:00-9:20 PAUL FREDERICK MINTZ and MECHELLE L. KERNS [email protected] Thriving Trade, Thirsty Traders: A Look at Rumney's Tavern Tammy L. Bryant Catholic University in London Town [email protected] 9:20-9:40 MATTHEW M. PALUS Kurt Carr Pennsylvania Historical and Museum The Archaeology of Corporate Industry and Absenteeism at Commission Virginius Island, Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Harpers kurt_ [email protected] Ferry, WV John Eric Deetz Association for the Preservation of 9:40- 10:00 PAULA MILLER and KENNETH J. BASALIK Virginia Antiquities "Grandmother Keen was the Ruler of the House": Gender, [email protected] Community and Identity in Early Twentieth Century Lancaster Josh Duncan W i11 iam and Mary Center for County Archaeological Research [email protected] 10:00- 10:20 Break Christopher Fennell University Of Virginia, Dept General Session: VARNA BOYD, chair Anthropology l 0:20-l 0:40 PHILLIP J. HILL [email protected] Data Recovery of the Anthony Holmead Site in N.W. Martin Gallivan William and Mary Center for Washington, D.C. Archaeological Research [email protected] 2 23 l 0:40-11 :00 BRANDON GRODNITSKY and COLIN BEAVEN NewLisa InsightsYoung Into Philadelphia's Past: Archaeological Conservation as Perceptions of the Anthony Holmead Site aScholarly Resource l l :00-11 :20 VARNA BOYD Archaeological Investigations of Fort Frederick During an archaeological testing and monitoring phase on Independence Park 11:20-11:40 DAVID BIBLER, PATRICIA MILLER, FRANK VENTO, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, archaeologists from the National Park Service JAMES MARINE and John Milner Associates, uncovered thr�e well and privy features. After the The Paleoindian and Archaic Periods at Three Stratified Sites initial artifact processing stage, the materials were transferred to the National on the Susquehanna River Floodplain Park Service, Applied Archeology Center in Silver Spring, Maryland for 11 :40-Noon LUDOMIR R. LOZNY further examination and analysis. Paul Inashima, Project Director, recognized Core Technology and Sedentism the need to further conserve many of the materials, and after two years and Saturday Afternoon March 25 3000 objects, conservation efforts are still on-going. This conservation project · provided a unique opportunity for archaeologists, specialists, interns, students, Session: Archaeological Collections and Conservation: volunteers and archaeological conservators to work together to help piece Implementing Innovative Strategies for a New Millennium together the past. This paper will discuss the project, the outcomes of the BERNARD KLAUS MEANS and LISA YOUNG, Co-Organizers. conservation efforts and relate how the project was used to educate and train BERNARD KLAUS MEANS, Chair interested scholars in archaeological conservation. 1 :00-1 :20 BERNARD KLAUS MEANS Mapping a New Future for the Past: Further Insights into Depression-era Archaeological Excavations in Southwestern Pennsylvania 1:20- 1 :40 LISA YOUNG New Insights into Philadelphia's Past: Archaeological Conservation as a Scholarly Resource I :40-2:00 REBECCA J. MOREHOUSE The Maryland State Highway Administration and the Maryland Historical Trust: A Cooperative Partnership in Collections Management 2:00-2:20 EMILY WILLIAMS and LUCIA HARNETT Re-Evaluating Treatment Methods for Waterlogged Leather 2:20-2:40 MELBA J. MYERS Conservation Documentation: What You Can Do With a Digital Camera and Off-the-Shelf Software 2:40-3:00 Break General Session: WILLIAM M. GARDNER, chair 3:00-3:20 WILLIAM M. GARDNER and TAMMY L. BRYANT Anonymous Slaves and Alexander Brown, Esq.: 44PW690 22 3 3:20-3:40 TAMMY BRYANT and WILLIAM M. GARDNER Stephen G. Warfel, Way Beyond the Big House: Field Slaves Sites in the Northern Investigating One of America's Oldest Communes --Archaeology Field Virginia Piedmont Schools at the Ephrata Cloister 3:40-4:00 JOHN ERIC DEETZ "From Arts, From Trades, From Valour, Honour Springs" The Ephrata Cloister Archaeology Project is a multi-year research program designed to discover and record the locations of principal structures that housed General Session: JAY CUSTER, chair :t;;::;J � V b,w,,t---- �, and served the 18th century Ephrata religious commune, determine building e ages and functions, and interpret lifestyles of community members. From its 4:00-4:20 JAY CUSTER � rt,._ fl � start in 1993 the project was structured as a student-training program which I've Got Biases I Don't Even Know About: Rethinking Middle invites public participation in both the field and laboratory. This presentation �7 Atlantic Archaeology (I� will highlight some of the project's accomplishments to date and evaluate the 4:20-4:40 MICHAEL STEWART effectiveness of utilizing archaeological field schools to realize research Indian Territories in the Delaware Valley: Problems and objectives.