June 13, 2025: "Archaeological Vignettes of the Niger Delta's Transatlantic Period, c. 1600-1885 CE" and "Bitter Island: archaeology at Praia Melão (São Tomé) and the origins of the modern Atlantic World"
Omokolade Omigbule, University of Virginia, and M. Dores Cruz, University of Cologne
December 13, 2024: Towards an Archaeology of Animals: Expanding on Zooarchaeological Analysis in Historical Contexts
Ryan Kennedy, Indiana University
November 22, 2024: Copper on the Borderlands of New Spain
Russell Skowronek, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
November 8, 2024: Exploring Evidence of Marketed Colonoware at Drayton Hall and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Corey Sattes, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
October 25, 2024: Metalworking during the French Fur Trade: A Preliminary Analysis of Metalworking at an 18th Century Trade Post in Indiana
Cassandra Apuzzo, Purdue University
September 27, 2024: XRF Analysis of Glass Trade Beads
Elliot Blair, University of Alabama
July 19, 2024: Lightning Talks on Current Research in South Carolina and Florida
Kendy Altizer (University of North Georgia), Jodi Barnes (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources), Luke Pecoraro (Drayton Hall), and Myles Sullivan (University of Florida)
May 10, 2024: Understanding a Post-Emancipation Haiti: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 19th Century Plant Remains at the Palace of Sans-Souci
Claire Norton, University of Massachusetts, Boston
April 26, 2024: From Code Noir to Code Henry: A Zooarchaeological Examination of Post-Revolution Subsistence at San-Souci, Haiti
Diane Wallman, University of South Florida
April 12, 2024: The Coffee Plantations of the Matheux Mountains, Haiti
Gabriela Martinez-Rocourt, University of Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne
March 15, 2024: 'Je renais de mes cendres' (I will rise from my ashes): An Archaeology of Liberty and Sovereignty in the Kingdom of Hayti
Cameron Monroe, University of California, Santa Cruz
February 16, 2024: Sharp Gradients of Landscape Design in 18th-Century Saint Domingue (Haiti)
Finola O'Kane, University College Dublin and Royal Irish Academy
February 2, 2024: Marronnage in Saint-Domingue (Haïti): An Archaeological Approach
Camille Louis, University of California, Santa Cruz and Monticello
January 19, 2024: Digging into Haiti's Past
Joseph Sony Jean, Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
December 15, 2023: Teaching Material Culture for Heritage Preservation: A Case Study in Community Science from Suriname
Lindsay Bloch, Tempered Archaeological Services and DAACS, and Elizabeth Bollwerk, DAACS
December 1, 2023: Looking for the African Diaspora Past
Cheryl White, Anton de Kom University of Suriname
November 17, 2023: The Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Archaeological Activities on the Jewish Settlement
Sushmeeta Taruna Ganesh and Jõvan Ranalfo Samson, Jodensavanne Foundation
November 3, 2023: Indigenous Pottery in Suriname: Status Quo and Challenges
Irene Meulenberg, Archaeological Service, Directorate of Culture, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Suriname
October 20, 2023: The State of Archaeology in Suriname: Making Something Out of Nothing
Cheryl White, Anton de Kom University of Suriname
September 22, 2023: Soto's Signature? XRF Analysis of Metal Artifacts from the American Southeast
Lindsay Bloch, Tempered Archaeological Services and DAACS, Charles Cobb, Florida Museum of Natural History, Nicolas Delsol, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Gifford Waters, Florida Museum of Natural History
Deciphering the Occupational History of an Eighteenth-century Domestic Site at Monticello from Plowzone Evidence.
Fraser Neiman, Monticello Department of Archaeology
May 20, 2022: Uncovering an Unusual Feature: Contextualizing Coan Hall’s Site 3 AND Living Things as an Archaeological Resource
Elizabeth Tarulis, Keri Burge, and Barbara Heath, University of Tennessee Knoxville and Graham Callaway, College of William and Mary
April 22, 2022: Building and Rebuilding: Legacy Collection Case Studies from the American Southwest
Carolyn Heitman, University of Nebraska
March 25, 2022: Fragments of Freedom: Remnants of Emancipated Life in Free Gut
Gabrielle Miller, Smithsonian Institute and University of Tulsa
March 11, 2022: A Lingering Absence in the City of Salt: Geospatially Reconstructing the Life and Legacies of the Former Fifteenth Ward in Syracuse, New York AND Stratford at the Crossroads: Archaeology, Power, and Transformative Storytelling at the Birthplace of Robert E. Lee
Dana Olesch, Syracuse University and Kelley Fanto Deetz and Amy Connolly, Stratford Hall
February 25, 2022: Using Machine Learning and Spatial Statistics to Measure the Geometric Structure of Archaeological Spaces AND What Was This Used For?: Using Absorbed Residues and Use-Wear to Tell Stories About Mugs, Bowls, and Tea Wares
Lindsay E. Cochran, East Tennessee State University, Grant Snitker, USDA Forest Service and the University of Georgia, and Kerice Doten-Snitker, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain and Matthew C. Greer, Syracuse University
February 11, 2022: Analyzing the Social Implications of Variation in Smoking Pipe Assemblages at 44PG92 Flowerdew Hundred
Elizabeth Bollwerk, DAACS, and Fraser Neiman, Monticello Department of Archaeology
January 28, 2022: Ground Truthing Archaeological Interpretations: Revisiting Annapolis’ Spirit Bundles AND Gilt by Association: Identifying Copper Alloy Equestrian Buckles in Archaeological Assemblages
Garrett Fesler, Alexandria Archaeology, and Sara Rivers Cofield, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory
December 10, 2021: Deetz’s New England Legacy: Digitizing the Plimoth Patuxet Collections
Christa Beranek, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Ana Opishinski, Plimoth Patuxet Museums
October 29, 2021: Decolonizing legacy collections in the Caribbean: a view from Puerto Rico
Paola Schiappacasse, Universidad de Puerto Rico
October 15, 2021: Building Better Interpretations, Building Better Fieldworkers: Using Legacy Collections
Julia A. King, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
September 17, 2021: Museum Taphonomy and Storeroom Excavation: Unpacking the Legacy Collections at 87 Church Street, Charleston
Sarah Platt, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery and Syracuse University
August 6, 2021: The State of Training in Historical Archaeology: A Conversation on Best Practices for Teaching Students How to Identify and Analyze Material Culture
Drs. Lindsay Bloch, Alasdair Brooks, Jillian Galle, Alicia Odewale, and Patricia Samford, moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Bollwerk
July 23, 2021: Ground Truthing Archaeological Interpretations: Revisiting Annapolis’ Spirit Bundles
Dr. Garrett Fesler, Alexandria Archaeology
June 4, 2021: Local Trade and Global Markets: Sourcing Coarse Earthenware at Morne Patate Plantation, Dominica
Dr. Lindsay Bloch and Dr. Elizabeth Bollwerk, Florida Museum of Natural History and DAACS
May 21, 2021: Enslaved Native American Plantation Pottery? A View from History
Dr. Andrew Johnson, Independent Scholar
May 7, 2021: Persistent Traditions: Lithic Technologies at the Franciscan Missions of La Florida
Dr. Charles Cobb and Dr. Gifford Waters, Collections Manager, Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Florida
April 23, 2021: The Pockoy Island Shell Ring Project: Problem-Oriented Salvage Archaeology in a Time of Climate Change
Dr. Karen Smith, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
April 9, 2021: Fragments of Freedom: An Introductory Glance at Excavations in a Crucian Free Black Neighborhood
Gabrielle Miller, PhD candidate, University of Tulsa
March 26, 2021: The Social Dynamics of Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake: Inferences from Tobacco Pipe Assemblages and Their Archaeological Contexts.
Fraser Neiman, Director of Archaeology, Monticello
March 12, 2021: An Archaeology of the Stewart Castle Great House, Trelawny, Jamaica
Sean Devlin, Curator of Archaeological Collections, Mount Vernon
February 26, 2021: Enslavement, Freedom, and Labor Coercion in the Caribbean: Contextualizing Carved Ceramic Discs at the Morne Patate Estate, Dominica
Jillian Galle, Lynsey Bates, and Khadene Harris, DAACS and Kenyon College
February 12, 2021: "They have there as much land as they choose to cultivate”: An Environmental Archaeology of Ecologies, Slavery, and Subsistence at Morne Patate
Diane Wallman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
January 29, 2021: Everyday Forms of Resilience: A Reflection on the Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica after 10 years
Mark Hauser, Associate Professor, Northwestern University
January 15, 2021: The Archaeology of Houseyards at the Morne Patate Estate 1750-1900
Khadene Harris, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kenyon College
December 4, 2020: Colonoware Pottery in the Colonial Lowcountry
Dr. Jon Marcoux, Clemson/College of Charleston, and Corey Sattes, Drayton Hall
November 20, 2020: A Historical Ecology of Slavery in the Danish West Indies: An Archaeology of Redress
Dr. Justin Dunnavant, Academic Pathways Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
November 6, 2020: Historical Archaeology at the Estate Little Princess, St. Croix, USVI
Dr. Alicia Odewale, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Tulsa and Dr. Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. University of California, Riverside
October 23, 2020: The Material Impacts of Agricultural Diversification and Amelioration on Enslaved Laborers in Colonial Jamaica: An Archaeological Perspective
Dr. Suzanne Francis-Brown, Curator Emeritus, University of West Indies Museum and Dr. Jillian Galle, Project Director, DAACS
October 9, 2020: Fishing and Foraging at the Stewart Castle Estate: Enslaved Children’s Contributions to the Market Activities of Enslaved Households in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Dr. Jillian Galle, Project Director, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
September 25, 2020: The Dynamics of Internal Markets in Two Caribbean Slave Societies: Ceramic Production and Trade on Jamaica and St. Kitts-Nevis
Dr. Fraser Neiman, Director of Archaeology, Monticello
