A Day at the Museum
Over a thousand visitors attended Charter Day at The State
Museum on Sunday, March 12. Janet Johnson, curator, and archaeology volunteers
were on hand to lead children and the young-at-heart through the petroglyph
drawing activity featured at this year’s Farm Show exhibit in the Nature Lab.
Photographer Credit: Don Giles
You’ll have an opportunity to meet archaeology staff at
future museum events this summer during the popular Nature Lab series on
Wednesday afternoons from late June to early August. Check the State Museum Events Calendar for
more details.
The 47th annual Mid-Atlantic
Archaeology Conference is
held this weekend:
March 16-19th,
2017
Virginia Beach Resort
and Conference Center
2800 Shore Drive
Virginia Beach,
Virginia
(800)-468-2722
It is not too late to attend. Walk-in registrants are welcome through this Saturday, March 18th at
4pm.
Kurt Carr and member volunteers at the
MAAC Registration Table. Photographer Credit: Judy Hawthorn
Conference activities kicked off on Thursday with a conservation
and gallery tour of the Mariners’ Museum and Park, Newport News, Virginia, and
a Coastal Plain Woodland Pottery Workshop in the afternoon.
Marcey Creek pottery featured during
yesterday’s Coastal Plain Pottery Workshop, Photographer Credit: Judy Hawthorn
Today, regular paper sessions begin featuring Paleoindian
research; Ethnoecological approaches; Conservation practices; Climate Change,
Natural Hazards and Archaeological Sites; Fairfax Co., VA Archaeology;
Prehistoric Archaeology; Montpelier; and
a honorarium session for Dr. Douglas W. Sanford. Kurt Carr, Senior Curator at
the State Museum will be reprising his dissertation work at the Thunderbird
site as the final morning contributor to the Paleoindian session at 9:40am. Additional
activities include the Student Committee Coffee Hour, “Afternoon Knapping”-
Experimental Archaeology with Jack Cresson, and the evenings Plenary Session- Augmented reality: how we transformed a
reality show into a unique teaching and learning opportunity, with Dr. Bill Schindler, who will discuss his
experience with the National Geographic series, The Great Human Race.
Lucy Harrington, Mercyhurst University
presenting during the Paleoindian Session this morning. Photographer Credit:
Judy Hawthorn.
Saturday’s paper and workshop sessions continue with topics
ranging from Historic Sites; Archaeological Survey; the Biggs Ford Site; Connecting
museum collections in news ways with the public audience in the digital age;
Current Research at St. Mary’s College of Maryland; Gender Identity in the
Archaeological Record; Sherwood Forest Plantation, Stafford Co., VA; Domestic
Archaeology in an Early Industrial Context; Public Sites and Parks; to a
honorarium session for Leverette Gregory. The poster session will run Saturday afternoon
and the evening General Business
Meeting is capped with the festive
Student Committee Mixer at 7:30pm and Reception at 8:30pm.
The conference ends with concurrent Sunday morning
sessions—the Indigo Hotel Site; the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center;
and Specialized Analysis of Historic Sites and Artifacts.
Follow the provided link to read the complete program
and speaker abstracts.
The Society for Pennsylvania 88th
Annual Meeting will be featured in our next blog, however, we don’t want
those interested to miss their chance to pre-register for the event online or
call to reserve a hotel room. Click here for a program
listing of the SPA session contributors and presentation titles.
The Pennsylvania
Archaeology Council (PAC) Symposium and
The Society for
Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA) 88th Annual Meeting
April 7-9th,
hosted this year by Section of Archaeology
Radisson Hotel
Harrisburg
1150 Camp Hill Bypass
Camp Hill, PA 17011
(717) 763-7117
This year’s
PAC symposium, Public outreach-
Preserving the Past with New Technologies, was organized by Bernard Means. The
Annual meeting presentations begin Saturday morning and will feature the research
of several of our staff curators—Melanie Mayhew, Kurt Carr, Kimberley Sebestyen,
and Janet Johnson—as well as SPA members and professional archaeologists from
across the Commonwealth. Other highlights from the weekend meeting include the
banquet speaker, Dr. Robert D. Wall, Towson University, presentation of Paleo to Susquehannock in the Upper Potomac
Valley: The Barton Site, and the ever popular Primitive Games to be held late
Saturday afternoon on the hotel grounds. The games are an opportunity to test
your flint and steel fire making skills, your spear throwing accuracy with an
atlatl, or how far you can toss a hammerstone to name a few of the friendly
competitions you can participate in as a meeting attendee. Cordier Auctions has
agreed to conduct our ever popular fund raising auction on Saturday evening
which is sure to hold many a treasure. We hope to see you there!
Atlatl spear throwing, Fort Hunter Indian Day 2013
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