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51st Annual
Midwest Archaeological Conference
Dayton Crowne Plaza Hotel
Dayton, Ohio
October 20–23, 2005

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Paper Presenters: Each presentation room will be equipped with a 35 mm slide projector and a laptop/digital projector. There will be a fully equipped viewing room onsite if you would like to review your presentation. Digital presentations should be on CD-ROM and compatible with PowerPoint 2003. We suggest that each symposium chair should consider compiling all PowerPoint presentations onto a single CD prior to the conference to save valuable time during the symposium and to ensure compatibility. We suggest using CD-R format, not CD-RW, for compatibility.

Poster Presentations: Those participants who are presenting posters should make their posters no larger than 48 inches wide by 48 inches tall.

Additional meeting information >


Thursday Evening
Special showing of footage from new films on Ohio Archaeology.

Friday Morning
Session 1. Symposium: Archaeology of 19th and 20th Century Native American Sites in the Midwest
Session 2. Midwest Prehistory Contributed Papers I
Session 3. Symposium: Hunter-Gatherers in the Ohio Valley
Session 4. Midwest History Archaeology Contributed Papers

Friday Poster Session. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Friday Afternoon
Session 5. Symposium: SunWatch Village: Evolving Perspectives on the Archaeology and Public Interpretation of a Fort Ancient Village
Session 6. Middle Woodland Archaeology Contributed Papers
Session 7. Union Village Shaker Community Archaeology

Bus Tour to Fort Ancient. 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Friday Evening
Reception and cash bar at the SunWatch Site in Dayton (in the museum adjacent to the partially-restored Fort Ancient village) from 6:00 to 8:30 P.M.

Saturday Morning
Session 8. Symposium: The OAC Sponsored Symposium: Current Research in Ohio Archaeology 2005
Session 9. Upper Great Lakes Prehistory Contributed Papers
Session 10. Symposium: The Archaeology of Nationalism
Session 11. Symposium: The Upper Mississippian Fortified Village at the Hoxie Farm Site

Saturday Poster Session. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday Afternoon
Session 12. Scioto Hopewell Sociopolitical and Ritual Organization: A Detailed Reconstruction
Session 13. Symposium: Troweling into the 21st Century: Current Research in Michigan Archaeology
Session 14. Midwest Prehistory Contributed Papers II
Session 15. Symposium: Recent Historic Archaeology Research in the Midwest

MAC Membership Meeting will take place in Van Cleve IV at 2:00 P.M.

Saturday Evening
Banquet at the Crowne Plaza with speaker Dr. Lawrence Keeley, University of Illinois at Chicago.


Thursday Evening

Special showing of footage from new films on Ohio Archaeology by Voyageur Media Group, Inc. CERHAS (Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites) will also present digital recreations of Ohio earthworks.

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Friday Morning

Session 1
Symposium: Archaeology of 19th and 20th Century Native American Sites in the Midwest
Organizers: Sean Dunham & Eric Drake
Location: Van Cleve 1
9 papers + roundtable discussion

Dunham, Sean B., Organizer (CCRG, Inc.) and Eric Drake, Co-organizer (Binghamton University)
The Archaeology of 19th and 20th Century Native American Sites in the Midwest

Schurr, Mark R. (Notre Dame) and William B. Secunda (Notre Dame)
The Search for the Menominee Villages: Tradition, History, and Removal

Broihahn, John (Wisconsin Historical Society) and Matthew Thomas (National Science Foundation)
Recent Archaeological Investigations of Late 19th and 20th Century Potawatomi Refuge Communities in Northern Wisconsin

Richner, Jeffrey (Midwest Archaeology Center, National Park Service)
Historical and Archaeological Evidence for Bois Forte Ojibwe Outside Reservation Allotments at Voyageurs National Park: A Case Study of the Big Sky Man's Outside Reservation Allotment 245 and Site 21SL156

Franzen, John G. (USDA Forest Service)
Archaeology and Historic Landscapes of Late 19th Early 20th Century Native American Homesteads in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Perkins, Eric (Michigan Historical Center)
Archaeology and Memory: The Little River Band of Ottawa at Indian Village

Thomas, Matthew (National Science Foundation)
Early 20th Century Ojibwe and Potawatomi Maple Syrup and Sugar Production Features in Michigan and Wisconsin

Drake, Eric (Binghamton University) and Sean B. Dunham (CCRG, Inc.)
Crosscutting Culture and Time: Native American Logging and the Continuity of Seasonal Mobility Patterns in the Upper Great Lakes

Mather, David (Mather Heritage Group, LLC) and Joseph McFarlane (McFarlane Consulting, LLC)
The Pit Site (21ML48) and the Onamia Tablet

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Session 2
Midwest Prehistory Contributed Papers I
Chair: Jon Hart
Location: Van Cleve II
9 papers

Brush, Nigel (Ashland University)
Developing a Predictive Model for Locating Pleistocene Megafauna

Severson, Elizabeth (University Wisconsin–Madison)
Don't Throw the Mammoth Out with the Bath Water: Megafauna Exploitation by Early Paleoindians Revisited

Hart, John P. (New York State Museum); William Lovis (Michigan State University); Janet K. Schulenberg (Pennsylvania State University); and Gerald R. Urquhart (Michigan State University)
Paleodietary Information from Stable Isotope Analysis of Cooking Residues: Implications from Controlled Residue Replication Experiments

Arnold, Kelly (SIUE)
Southern Illinois Ceramic Figurines: A Temporal Investigation

Byers, A. Martin (McGill University)
Cahokia as a World Renewal Cult Heterarchy

Thomas, Chad (Arizona State University)
The Vacant Quarter Hypothesis: A Summary of Previous Thought

Monaghan, William (Glenn A. Black Laboratory, Indiana University)
Minnesota Deep Test Protocol Project: Part 1, Project Background, Design and Results

Egan-Bruhy, Kathryn (CCRG)
Minnesota Deep Test Protocol Project; Part 2, Cost/Benefit and Deep Test Protocol

Burks, Jarrod (Ohio Valley Archaeological Consultants)
The Magnetic Structure of Ohio's Past: Summarizing Three Years of Intensive Ground Truthing Data

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Session 3
Symposium: Hunter-Gatherers in the Ohio Valley
Organizers: Sarah Surface-Evans & Rick Burdin
Location: Van Cleve III
4 papers + 2 discussants

Harrell, Perry (FOAS)
A Survey of PaleoIndian Points in Clark County Indiana

Surface-Evans, Sarah, Organizer (Michigan State University)
Contextualizing Shell Mound Archaic Adaptations: The Utility of Existing Archaeological Data for Regional Model Building

Burdin, Rick (University of Kentucky)
Archaic Bannerstones: Raw Material and Color Choices Among Hunting and Gathering Groups in the Lower Ohio River Valley (ca. 6500 to 3000 BP)

Bader, Anne (Amex Earth and Environmental)
Do not stand at my grave and weep…Possible Evidence for a Late Middle Archaic Wake at the Meyer Site, Spender County, Indiana

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Session 4
Midwest History Archaeology Contributed Papers
Chair: Tim Bauman
Location: Van Cleve IV
10 papers

Bird, M. Catherine (Midwest Archaeological Research Services, Inc.) and Jack Van Orden (Midwest Archaeological Research Services, Inc.)
Cisterns: "Dead Water" Hardly Fit to Wash the Backsettler's Face

Rotman, Deborah I. (Purdue University)
Social Relations in a Small Midwestern Town: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of the Rothenberger-Steckel-Hovde Residence in Mulberry, Indiana

Madsen, Mark L. (Chicago Archaeological Society)
"Griffonage" on a hand-made copper-plated cap found at site 11-DU-56 in Illinois

Bauman, Timothy (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
Prairie Park Plantation: An Architectural and Archeological Study of a Frame Slave Quarters

Lillie, Robin M. (University of Iowa) and Matt Donovan (Iowa Department of Transportation)
Not So Final Resting Place: The Rose Hill Cemetery Investigation

Mansberger, Floyd (Fever River Research) and James Yingst (Fever River Research)
The Current Status of Urban Historical Archaeology in Illinois: An Overview

Mansberger, Floyd (Fever River Research) and James Yingst (Fever River Research)
Historical Archaeology and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois

Bruhy, Mark (USDA Forest Service)
The Treaty Tree Site: A Nexus of Prehistoric and Historic Native Occupation at the Headwaters of the Brule River

Pickard, William (Ohio Historical Society)
Recent Investigations at Pickawillany, Miami County, Ohio

Pansing, Linda (Ohio Historical Society)
Fort Laurens Musketball Concentration: Evidence of a fight or fiasco?

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Poster Session
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Presenters will be at posters between 11:00 a.m. and Noon)

McCullough, Robert (IPFW) and Andrew White
(Indiana University Purdue–Fort Wayne)
Overview of Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Geophysical Survey at Strawtown Koteewi Park

Foster, Kevin (Ball State University)
Resisitivity in 3D

Hipskind, Scott (Indiana University Purdue–Fort Wayne)
Geophysical Exploration of Site 12-H-1052

Holmes, Ashley (Butler University)
Using Magnetometry Data to Identify Stockade Locations

Yager, Marian (Indiana University Purdue–Fort Wayne)
Ground Penetrating Radar as a Tool for Shallow, High Resolution Subsurface Mapping

DeCola, Tom (Indiana University–Northwest)
Spatial Distribution of Pit Features at 12-H-1057, a Late Prehistoric Oneota Occupation Located on the White River, Hamilton County, Central Indiana

Clark, Cherlyn (University of Kentucky)
Comparing the Accuracy of Three-Dimensional Resistitivity Data to Ground Penetrating Radar in Mapping Large Subsurface Materials

Smith, Julie (Indiana University)
Developing a Model for Interpretation of Geophysical Anomalies at 12-H-3

Graham, Colin (Indiana University Purdue–Fort Wayne)
Using Ground Penetrating Radar and Resistivity to Test a Model of Community Plan Within the Strawtown Enclosure

Herman, Josh (Indiana University)
Effect of Instrument Pitch and Sensor Height on Magnetic Survey Data Using a Geoscan FM256

Engle, Josh (University of Kentucky)
Can Geophysical Methods Replace the Dozer? Testing Feature Distribution with Magnetometry and Resistivity

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Friday afternoon

Session 5
Symposium: SunWatch Village: Evolving Perspectives on the Archaeology and Public Interpretation of a Fort Ancient Village
Organizers: Robert Cook & Andrew Sawyer
Location: Van Cleve I
8 papers + 2 discussants

Simonelli, Lynn (Boonshoft Museum)

Sawyer, Andrew (Dayton Society of Natural History)
A History of SunWatch

Higdon, Larry (Dayton Society of Natural History)
The American Indian Advisory Committee to the Dayton Society of Natural History

Cook, Robert, Organizer (The Ohio State University)
Expanding a Model of SunWatch Prehistoric Social Structures

Cook, Robert (The Ohio State University) and William Kennedy (Boonshoft Museum)
Preliminary Results of the 2005 Ohio State University/Dayton society of Natural History Summer Archaeological Field Program

Sawyer, Andrew, CO-Organizer (SunWatch)
Interpretation in Action: Bringing the Past to Life at SunWatch

Dalton, Melissa (Dayton Society of Natural History)
Peering into the Past: House Reconstruction at SunWatch

Nelson, Susan (SunWatch)
Prairie Reconstruction at SunWatch Indian Village

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Session 6
Middle Woodland Archaeology Contributed Papers
Location: Van Cleve II
10 papers

Burks, Jarrod (Ohio Valley Archaeological Consultants) and Karen Leone (The Ohio State University)
New Geophysical survey results from Carlisle Fort, a little-known Hopewell hilltop enclosure in southwestern Ohio

Royce, Karen (The Ohio State University)
Re-examination of the Water Plant Site (33FR133) Using Geophysical Methods

Thompson, Amanda (University of Alabama) and Kathryn A. Jakes
(The Ohio State University)
Implication of Textile Evidence for Ohio Hopewell Burial Practices

Baldia, Christel (University of Indiana in Pennsylvania) and Kathryn Jakes (The Ohio State University)
Forensic Photography of Ohio Hopewell Textiles

Appleby, Kristin (Northern Kentucky University)
Inferring Migration from Flint Raw Material: A Central Ohio Valley Adena Sample

Marshall, James (Independent scholar)
Five Prehistoric Earthworks of the Dayton Area

Brown, James (Northwestern University), R.J. Jeske (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), and J.B. Stoltman (University Wisconsin–Madison)
Hopewellian Exchange and Material Resources at Mound City, Ohio

Emerson, Thomas (University of Illinois)
Sourcing Squier and Davis Mound City Pipe Cache

King, Jason (University of New Mexico) and Jane Buikstra (Arizona State University)
Rituals of Renewal in the lower Illinois River Valley

Simon, Mary (ITARP)
Middle Woodland Plant Use and Pottery in the Uplands of West Central Illinois

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Session 7
Union Village Shaker Community Archaeology
Chair: Bruce Aument
Location: Van Cleve III
6 papers

Aument, Bruce (Ohio Department of Transportation)
Unearthing Shaker History at the North Family Lot, Union Village in Warren County, Ohio

Simpson, Duane (AMEC Earth & Environmental)
Integration of Geophysical Investigations and Archival Research at Site 33WA407, North Family Lot, of the Shaker Community at Union Village, Warren County, Ohio

Sewell, Andrew (Hardlines Design Company)
Archaeology in Wisdom's Paradise: A Preliminary Report on a Phase III Data Recovery Project at the North family Lot of Union Village, a Shaker Community in Warren County, Ohio

Grooms, Thomas (Ohio Historic Preservation Office)
Simplicity Comes in All Forms: The Shaker Smoking Pipe from Union Village, Ohio

Sewell, Andrew (Hardlines Design Company)
A Preliminary Shaker Brick Typology for Union Village, Warren County, Ohio

Aument, Bruce (Ohio Department of Transportation)
Preliminary Insights on Shaker Social Dynamics Reflected in Landscape Dynamics at Union Village in Warren County, Ohio

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Friday afternoon

Bus tour to Fort Ancient museum and earthwork. Bus will pick up passengers at the Crowne Plaza at 1:00 p.m. and will return around 6:00 p.m.

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Friday Evening

Reception and cash bar at the SunWatch Site in Dayton (in the museum adjacent to the partially-restored Fort Ancient village) from 6:00 to 8:30 P.M.

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Saturday morning

Session 8
Symposium: The OAC Sponsored Symposium: Current Research in Ohio Archaeology 2005
Organizer: Brian Redmond
Location: Van Cleve I
12 papers

Whitman, Linda (University of Akron) and Timothy Matney (University of Akron)
Geophysical Survey in the Cuyahoga River Valley

Schwartz, Kevin (ASC Group, Inc.) and Jeffrey Weinberger (ASC Group, Inc.)
Ground Truth: Archaeological and Site Structure Implications for Recent Field Verification of Magnetic Surveys of Ohio Archaic and Woodland Sites

Nolan, Kevin (Kent State University)
The Ohio Hopewell Blade Industry at the Turner Workshop

Pacheco, Paul (SUNY Geneseo); Jarrod Burks (Ohio Valley Archaeological Consultants LTD); Dee Anne Wymer (Bloomsburg University)
Investigating Ohio Hopewell Settlement Patterns in Central Ohio: Archaeology at Brown's Bottom #1 (33Ro21)

Cowan, Frank L. (F. Cowan and Associates)
Black and White and Buried All Over

Genheimer, Robert A. (Cincinnati Museum Center)
Millions and Millions of Flakes: Preliminary Results from the Barnyard Site Stubbs Earthwork Complex

Sunderhaus, Ted S. (Cincinnati Museum Center)
Variability and Uniformity in Middle Woodland Ceramics in the Miami River Valleys of Southwest Ohio and a Closer Look at Ceramic Variability at the Stubbs Earthworks Complex

Spertzel, Staci (Ohio University)
Late Woodland Hunting Patterns: Evidence from Facing Monday Creek Rockshelter (33HO414), Southeastern Ohio

Sothers, David M. (University of Toledo) and George B. DeMuth (Sandusky Bay Chapter Archaeological Society of Ohio)
Current Research in the Lower Huron River Valley of Northcentral Ohio: Taylor Mortuary Site (33Er3)

Purtill, Matthew P. (Gray and Pape, Inc.)
Alive and Kicking: New Excavation Data from the Late Prehistoric Madisonville Village and Cemetery Site (33Ha36), Southwestern Ohio

Redmond, Brian, Organizer (Cleveland Museum of Natural History)
Saving the Danbury Site (33Ot16): Investigation of Woodland to Late Prehistoric Settlement and Mortuary Behavior Along the Lake Erie Shore

Sowden, Carrie (Peachman Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center Great Lakes Historical Society)
The Dundee: an interim report

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Session 9
Upper Great Lakes Prehistory Contributed Papers
Chair: Duane Esarey
Location: Van Cleve II
9 papers

Ensor, Bradley (Eastern Michigan University)
A CRM-Oriented Field School: Phase I and Phase II Investigations at the Lower Huron Metro Park, Michigan

Winkler, Daniel M. (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) and Brian D. Nicholls (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Lithic Resources Availability and Use on the Door Peninsula of Northeastern Wisconsin

Toth, Jay (Ho Chunk Nation)
Mound Preservation and Maintenance

Norder, John (Michigan State University)
Landscape Marking and Social Organization in Woodland Period NW Ontario

Wagner, Stephen (Cemml/Fort McCoy)
Mobility and Resources Procurement in the Headwaters: Campsites in the Northern Driftless Area, Wisconsin

Ferone, Troy (Bureau of Land Management–Eastern States)
Terminal Woodland Copper Procurement in the Southern Lake Superior Basin: A View from the Ontonagon River Watershed

Cheruvelil, Jubin (Michigan State University)
Ritual Behavior Material Dynamics Among the Western Wisconsin Oneota

Foley Winkler, Kathleen (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Oneota Nutrition and Dental Pathology

Esarey, Duane (University of North Carolina )
Paelography des Indes: An Overview of the Codex Canadiensis

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Session 10
Symposium: The Archaeology of Nationalism
Organizers: Robert Chidester & Jeremy Freeman
Location: Van Cleve III
4 papers + 1 discussant

Chidester, Robert, Organizer (University of Michigan) and Jeremy Freeman, CO-organizer (Ball State University)
A Prospectus for the Archaeology of Nationalism

Chidester, Robert (University of Michigan)
Nationalism and Ceramic Consumption Patterns: A Case Study from Northwest Ohio

Freeman, Jeremy (Ball State University)
Southern Nationalism and the Creation of the Confederate Ideology

Pipes, Marie-Lorraine (Zooarchaeologist, Consultant)
The Remains of the Day: Faunal Remains as Evidence of Public Ceremonies and the Creation of National Identity

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Session 11
Symposium: The Upper Mississippian Fortified Village at the Hoxie Farm Site
Organizers: Douglas Jackson & Thomas Emerson
Location: Van Cleve IV
4 papers

Jackson, Douglas, Organizer (ITARP)
Introduction to the ITARP investigations at the Hoxie Farm site and the Fortified Village Community

Emerson, Kjersti (University of Illinois–ITARP) and Emerson, Thomas (University of Illinois–ITARP)
Conceptualizing a Late Fisher Phase Ceramic Assemblage: The Evidence from the Hoxie Farm Fortified Village

Evans, Madeleine (ITARP)
Profile of an Upper Mississippian Village Lithic Assemblage from Hoxie Farm

Egan-Bruhy, Kathryn (Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc.)
Floral Analysis of the Hoxie Farm site and the Fortified Village Community

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Poster Session
Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Presenters will be at posters between 11:00 a.m. and Noon)

Holven, Adam
A GIS Approach to Intrasite Spatial Analysis: Site Formation and Late Paleoindian Activities at the Clary Ranch Site

Horton, George (IAS)
Buffalo Nation

Kolb, Michael (Stratamorph Geoexploration) and Dan Joyce (Kenosha Public Museum)
Late Pleistocene site Formation Processes at the Hebior-Schaefer Mammoth Locality, Southeastern Wisconsin

Lehman, Sophie (The College of Wooster) and Greg Wiles
(The College of Wooster)
Dendroarchaeology: Tree ring dating of historical structures in Northeastern Ohio

Frost, Margo (University of Wisconsin–Parkside) and Robert Sasso (University of Wisconsin–Parkside)
Recovery of Archaeological Materials Through Water Screening from the Vieau fur Trade Post Site, Franksville, Wisconsin

Gaut, Tamara (University of Wisconsin–Parkside) and Robert Sasso (University of Wisconsin–Parkside)
Electrolytic Cleaning and Analysis of Square Nails Recovered from the Vieau for Trade Post Site Racine County, Wisconsin

Lynott, Mark (National Park Service)
Excavation of a Hopewell Structure at the Hopeton works, Ross County, OH

Otarola, Erik (Iowa State University) and Branden Scott
(Iowa State University)
The Chipped Stone and Faunal Assemblages from the Mohler Farm Site

Peterson, Staffan (Indiana University)
Recent Excavations at Angel Mounds, Indiana

Pletcher-Russeau, Ashlee (Ball State University)
Motifs of Irish Mythology

Sasso, Robert (University of Wisconsin–Parkside); Matthew Liesch (University of Wisconsin–Madison); and Derek Rivers
(University of Wisconsin–Parkside)
GIS Analysis of Nineteenth Century Potawatomi Site Selection in Southeastern Wisconsin

Speilmann, Katherine (Arizona State University)
Architectural Complexity at Seip Earthwork

Wells, Josha (Glenn A. Black Laboratory, Indiana University)
Another Season in the Museum: Evaluating the Mississippian Artifacts from Howard Winters' Archaeological Survey of the Wabash Valley in Illinois

White, Andrew (Indiana University Purdue–Fort Wayne)
Paleoindian Chronology in Northeastern Indiana

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Saturday afternoon

Session 12 at 1:00 p.m.
Scioto Hopewell Sociopolitical and Ritual Organization: A Detailed Reconstruction
Special Paper by Christopher Carr
Location: Van Cleve I

Carr, Christopher (Arizona State University)
Scioto Hopewell Sociopolitical and Ritual Organizations: A Detailed Reconstruction

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Session 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Symposium: Troweling into the 21st Century: Current Research in Michigan Archaeology
Organizers: Jon Carroll & Donald Gaff
Location: Van Cleve I
8 papers + 2 discussants

Carr, Dillon (Michigan State University)
Current Research Problems in the Identification of Paleoindian Sites in the Upper Great Lakes

Raviele, Maria (Michigan State University)
Investigations at the Nipissing 2 Terrace site, Atrim County, Michigan

Brashler, Janet (Grand Valley State University)
Applying New and Old Technology to Old Problems: Style, Function and Technology in West Michigan Prehistoric Ceramics

Carroll, Jon, Organizer (Michigan State University)
Late Woodland Social Dynamics in Michigan's Saginaw Valley

Gaff, Donald, CO-Organizer (Michigan State)
Late Prehistoric Cultural Identity and Affiliation: a Review of the Evidence from Southern Lake Michigan

Malischke, Lisa Marie and Michael Nassaney (Western Michigan University)
Glass Trade Beads as Commodities at Fort Saint Joseph, Niles, Michigan

O'Gorman, Jodie (Michigan State University
Archaeology of Saints' Rest Dormitory

Howey, Meghan (University of Michigan)
Life in Uninvestigated Places: Recent Research in North Central Michigan

Cleland, Charles E., Discussant (Michigan State University)

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Session 14 at 2:00 p.m.
Midwest Prehistory Contributed Papers II
Chair: Ken Mohney
Location: Van Cleve II
9 papers

Mohney, Kevin (Monroe County Community College
A Review of Utilized Flakes in the Ethnographic Literature with Implications of Archaeology

Collins, James (University of Iowa)
Circular Reasoning: A Search for Meaning in Annular Stamped Pottery

Marquardt, Amy (Iowa Archaeology Society/Mediapolis High School)
Experimental Archaeology: Breaking Strength and Porosity of Prehistoric Ceramic Reproductions Phases

Waters, Kari (University of Indianapolis)
Woodland Ridge: Evidence of Interpersonal Conflict in late Prehistoric Indiana

Hart, John P. (New York State Museum); John P. Nass (California University of Pennsylvania); and Bernard Means (Arizona State University)
Monongahela Subsistence-Settlement Change?

Pollack, David (Kentucky Heritage Council) and A. Gwynn Henderson (Kentucky Archaeological Society)
Protohistoric Fort Ancient Mortuary Practices in Northern Kentucky

Finney, Fred (Upper Midwest Archaeology) and Donald L. Johnson
What Did Theodore H. Lewis see at Harpers Ferry Iowa in 1884?

Strezewski, Michael (Indiana Purdue–Fort Wayne)
Investigation at Kethtippccanunk, a Late Eighteenth Century French and Indian Town in Tippecanoe County, Indiana

Fuerst, David N. (University of Kentucky)
On the Nature of Archaeological Territories in the Central Appalachians

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Session 15
Symposium: Recent Historic Archaeology Research in the Midwest
Organizer: Christina Blanch
Location: Van Cleve III
7 papers

Favret, Amy (Ball State University)
The Bioarchaeology of Children's Health in Antebellum Kentucky: The Old Frankfurt Cemetery

Wyatt, Jennifer (Ball State University)
From Collectors to Proposals: A Background of the Patty Ann Farms Site

Barleben, Christa (Ball State University)
Historic Canals of Indiana

Whitaker, Jamie (Ball State University)
The Historic Contents and Archaeology of African American Cemeteries

Blanch, Christina, Organizer (Ball State University)
Victoria Meanings and Motivations in the Midwest

Macke, Jessica (Ball State University)
19th Century Death Rituals - Social Cemetery Stones

Pletcher, David T. (Ball State University)
Class Struggle in Midwest

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Saturday afternoon

MAC Membership Meeting will take place in Van Cleve IV at 2:00 P.M.

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Saturday Evening

Banquet at the Crowne Plaza with speaker Dr. Lawrence Keeley, University of Illinois at Chicago.

  • There will be a cash bar in the Van Cleve foyer from 5:30 to 6:30 P.M.
  • Guests will be seated for the banquet beginning at 6:30 P.M.
  • Dinner will served at 7:00 P.M.
  • Our guest speaker will begin at 8:00 and end at 9:00 P.M.

Important note to banquet attendees: If you have indicated that you would like to attend the banquet on Saturday, Oct 22nd, please indicate your choice of: beef/chicken/vegetarian to Bill Kennedy through email (wkennedy@boonshoftmuseum.org), phone (937-275-7431 x115), or by mail (Kennedy, 2600 DeWeese Parkway, Dayton, Ohio 45414). The final count of meals will be given to the caterer on Wednesday, October 19th. Chicken will be selected for those who have indicated that they will attend, but have not expressed a preference by that time.

Special thanks to banquet sponsors: Gray & Pape, Inc!

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