SOUTHEASTERN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & ABSTRACTS OF THE 73RD ANNUAL MEETING OCTOBER 26-29, 2016 ATHENS, GEORGIA BULLETIN 59 2016 BULLETIN 59 2016 PROCEEDINGS & ABSTRACTS OF THE 73RD ANNUAL MEETING OCTOBER 26-29, 2016 THE CLASSIC CENTER ATHENS, GEORGIA Meeting Organizer: Edited by: Hosted by: Cover: © Southeastern Archaeological Conference 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CLASSIC CENTER FLOOR PLAN……………………………………………………...……………………..…... PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS…………………………………………………………………….…..……. LIST OF DONORS……………………………………………………………………………………………….…..……. SPECIAL THANKS………………………………………………………………………………………….….....……….. SEAC AT A GLANCE……………………………………………………………………………………….……….....…. GENERAL INFORMATION & SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE…………………….……………………..…………... PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26…………………………………………………………………………..……. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27……………………………………………………………………………...…...13 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH……………………………………………………………….……………....…..21 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH…………………………………………………………….…………....…...28 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION ENTRIES…………………………………………………………………..………. ABSTRACTS OF SYMPOSIA AND PANELS……………………………………………………………..…………….. ABSTRACTS OF WORKSHOPS…………………………………………………………………………...…………….. ABSTRACTS OF SEAC STUDENT AFFAIRS LUNCHEON……………………………………………..…..……….. SEAC LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS FOR 2016…………………….……………….…….…………………. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 59, 2016 ConferenceRooms CLASSIC CENTERFLOOR PLAN 6 73rd Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia EVENT LOCATIONS Baldwin Hall Baldwin Hall 7 Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 59, 2016 SPECIAL THANKS Level One Level Two Level Three Level Four 8 73rd Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Victor Thompson SEAC 2016 Meeting Organizer 9 Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 59, 2016 SEAC AT A GLANCE Room Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday AM PM AM PM AM PM Olympia One Olympia Two Parthenon One Parthenon Two Athena A Athena B Athena C Athena D Athena E 10 73rd Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia GENERAL INFORMATION REGISTRATION Upper Elevator Lobby at the Classic Center Wednesday 4:00—7:00 pm Thursday 8:00 am—4:00 pm Friday 8:00 am—4:00 pm Saturday 8:00am—10:00 am BOOKS & EXHIBITS Athena E Wednesday (setup only) 4:00 pm—7:00 pm Thursday 8:00 am—5:00 pm Friday 8:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday 8:00 am—2:00 pm CONCESSIONS Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, and Drinks (including cash bar on Friday) Classic Center Atrium, Thursday 8AM to 2PM and Friday 8AM to 5PM 11 Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 59, 2016 SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY pXRF Workshop at UGA’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies—8am-5pm 12,000 Years in 45 Minutes: An Evening with Scott Jones—The Foundry at Graduate Athens —5:30pm-7:30pm SEAC Board Meeting — The Branded Butcher —6pm-8pm SEAC Historic Downtown Pub Crawl —Starts at Little Kings Shuffle Club—5pm-7:30pm THURSDAY Foundations of Photography and Photogrammetry for Archaeologists—Athena A—8am- 12pm Student Luncheon—Oconee River Room—12pm-1:30pm Student Reception—The Foundry at Graduate Athens—5:00-pm6:00pm Great Spirits of SEAC (Concurrent with Reception)—The Foundry at Graduate Athens—6pm- 8pm General Reception with String Theory Band—The Foundry at Graduate Athens—6pm-8pm FRIDAY Bayesian Chronological Modeling Workshop— Baldwin Hall, Room 264 —8am-5pm SEAC Story Corps—Classic Center’s Athena F—8am-12pm and 1pm-5pm SEAC Business Meeting—Classic Center’s Grand Hall—5:30pm-6:45pm SEAC Dance—Classic Center’s Atrium Hall—9pm-12am SATURDAY SGA’s Georgia, Can You Dig It? A Georgia Archaeology Faire—Horseshoe in front of Classic Center—8am-2pm Saturday Evening Wind Down—Little Kings Shuffle Club—4-7pm 12 73rd Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia PROGRAM ment Tract, New Hanover County, North Caroli- THURSDAY MORNING na Workshop: Foundations of Photography and Pho- 11:00 Smith, Stepfanie and Leslie Branch-Raymer, togrammetry for Archaeologists—Athena A— Bones, Shells, and Seeds: Zooarchaeological and Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Archaic 8am-12pm through Late Woodland Period Subsistence at OLYMPIA ONE Five Sites within the Proposed Riverlights Devel- opment, New Hanover County, North Carolina [1] Symposium: Shaping the Present by Researching the 11:20 Martin, Tracy and Pam Enlow, Ceramics and Past: Celebrating the Life and Influence of Dr. Joan Gero Radiocarbon Dates from the Riverlights Tract Organizers: Jodi Barnes and Ruth Trocolli 11:40 Adams-Pope, Natalie, Tracy Martin, and Wil- 8:00 Trocolli, Ruth, Sociopolitics and Southeastern liam Green, Blacksmithing for Fun and Profit: Chiefdom Studies Archaeological Investigations at 31NH755 8:20 Judge, Christopher, This is not Father Earth and they are not called The Three Brothers: Women, War Woman, WARP, and WAC OLYMPIA TWO 8:40 Barnes, Jodi, Public Archaeology as Feminist [3] Symposium: The Power of Villages Archaeology: Remembering Dr. Joan M. Gero Organizers: Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson 9:00 Stine, Linda, Engendering Historical Archaeolo- 8:00 Thompson, Victor D. and Jennifer Birch, The gy: 1990-2016 Compelling Power of Villages in Eastern North 9:20 Babson, David, Always Ask a Question, David! America Remembering Dr. Joan Gero 8:20 Birch, Jennifer and Ronald F. Williams, Initial Northern Iroquoian Coalescence: Who Pushed the Process? [2] Symposium: Archaeology along the Lower Cape Fear Riv- er: Ten Years of Archaeological Investigations at the River- 8:40 West, Shaun, Thomas Pluckhahn, and Martin lights Development Tract in Wilmington, North Carolina Menz, Size Matters: Kolomoki (9ER1) and the Power of the Hypertrophic Village Organizers: William Green, Natalie Adams Pope, and Tracy 9:00 Sanger, Matthew, Communal fidelity to place Martin and the formation of early villages 10:20 Green, William, From Kirk Points to Tar Kilns 9:20 Sullivan, Lynne, The Path to the Council House: and Nearly Everything in Between: 10,000 Years The Development of Mississippian Communities of Human Occupation at the Riverlights Develop- in Southeast Tennessee ment Tract 9:40 Gallivan, Martin, All the King’s Houses and All 10:40 Branch-Raymer, Leslie and Mary Theresa Bon- the King’s Men: The Power of Villages in the Pow- hage-Freund, Early Archaic to Late Woodland hatan Chiefdom Period Resource Utilization, Local Ecology, and 10:00 Break Settlement/Subsistence Patterns: A View from the Paleoethnobotanical Study, Riverlights Develop- 13 Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 59, 2016 10:20 Cook, Robert, The Village Remains the Same: Traditions in Northeast Florida The Case of the Fort Ancient Village 9:40 Peres, Tanya, Deciphering Archaic Bundles in 10:40 Jefferies, Dick., Population Aggregation and the the Archaeological Record of the Southeastern Emergence of Circular Villages in the Southern US Appalachian Region 10:00 Break 11:00 Jones, Eric, Outside Looking In: The View of Pied- 10:20 Bissett, Thaddeus and Stephen Carmody, mont Village Formation from the Upper Yadkin Changing channels: Considering the effects of River Valley river channel migration on shell-bearing site his- 11:20 Wallis, Neill, Powers of Place in the Predestined tories Middle Woodland Village 10:40 Stevens, Karen and Anna-Marie Casserly, Diffi- 11:40 Wilson, Gregory and Amber VanDerwarker, culties in Determining Gendered Activities from War, Power, History: Mississippian Village For- WPA Collections: An Investigation of Individuals mation in the Central Illinois River Valley from the Kirkland site (15McL12) 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Jordan, Kurt, From Nucleated Towns to Dis- PARTHENON TWO persed Networks: Transformations in Seneca Iroquois Community Structure, circa 1650-1779 [5] Symposium: Of Roads and Ruins: Georgia Department of CE Transportation (GDOT) Contributions to Georgia Archaeolo- gy 1:20 Horsley, Timothy J. and Casey R. Barrier, The Power of Places during an Era of Urban Trans- Organizers: Pamela Baughman formations in the American Bottom: A Regional 8:00 Jones, Joel, Pamela Baughman, and Tom Perspective for the Development of Village, Gresham, A Multi-Phased Approach to a High- Town, and City way Survey in Mountainous North Georgia and 1:40 Anderson, David G., Discussant the Diverse Resources Encountered 2:00 Cobb, Charlie, Discussant 8:20 Greshman, Tom, The Archaeology of a Large, Linear Battlefield PARTHENON ONE 8:40 Tankersley, Matthew, Walking the Banks: Com- [4] Symposium: A Ritual Gathering: Celebrating the Work of plexities of Georgia’s Rice Landscape Cheryl Claassen 9:00 Mustonen, Heather, The New Echota Traditional Organizers: Alice Wright and Maureen Myers Cultural Place: Section 106 Consultation and the SR 225 Bridge Replacement Project, Gordon 8:00 Wright, Alice, Scholar, Mentor, Pioneer: Cheryl County, Georgia Claassen’s Contributions to Southeastern Archae- ology 9:20 Joseph, J.W. and Brad Botwick, Making the Past Public: Outreach and Research from the 8:20 Barbour, Terry, A Long String of History: Shell Abercorn Archaeological Site Mitigation, Beads in the Mississippian Southeast 9CH1205 8:40 Goodwin, Joshua, Exploring the Ritual Signifi- 9:40 Patch, Shawn, Just Scratching the Surface: Geo- cance of Avian Remains Recovered from Shell physical Survey at the Georgia Department of Mound (8LV42) Transportation 9:00 Kimball, Larry, Why are Hopewell Blades Spe- 10:00 Break cial? 10:20 Moss, Richard, Intensive Survey in McLemore 9:20 Randall, Asa, Hero Twins and Archaic Mortuary Cove, Georgia Explores Late Archaic-Early Wood- 14 73rd Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia land Settlement Patterns and Informs GDOT Re- 10:40 Zierden, Martha, Barnet A. Pavao-Zuckerman, source Management Plans