"Scientific Advances in Archaeology"
Program
9:30 - 9:55 Registration
9:55 - 10:00 Welcome and Announcements
10:00- 10:30 Paige Newby, M.A. Doctoral Student, Brown University
The Process of Peopling the Americas
10:30 - 11:00 Ellen J. Ingmanson, Ph.D., Bridgwater State College
Archaeogenetics: Contributions of Molecular Genetics to Archaeological Questions
11:00 - 11:30 Carolyn Dillian, Ph.D., R.P.A., Princeton University, Charles A. Bello, CRGG, Highland Park, NJ and M. Steven Shackley, University of Calif., Berkeley
Long-Distance Obsidian Exchange in the Mid-Atlantic Region
11:30 - 12:00 Joseph Waller, M.A., University of Connecticut & PAL, Inc.
Soapstone Source Areas in Southern New England: A Study in Archaeological Geochemistry
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 1:15 Donald F. Brown Ph.D., Founding Member of M.A.S. Reminiscences
1: 15 - 1: 45 Roland Duhaime, M.S. University of Rhode Island
Building a Geographic Information System for Terrestrial and Underwater Archaeology: Two Prototypes
1:45 - 2:15 David S. Robinson, M.A. R.P.A. University of Connecticut and P.A.L., Inc.
"Land Ho!" - A Nautical Archaeologist's Search for Submerge Paleolandscapes and settlements in Southern New England
2:15 - 2:30 BREAK
2:30 - 3:00 John Pretola, Ph.D., Bay Path Collge
Massachusetts is a Far Cry From New York: Ceramic Petrography of Terminal Woodland Pottery
3:00 - 3:30 T. Rose Holdcraft, Susan Haskell, Christiana Hodge, Diana Loren, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Perry, Wampanoag Indigenous Program - Plimoth Plantation Museum
Collaborative study of an historic Native American sash and an associated paper label 'Belt of Indian King Philip. From Col. Keyes'
4:00 - 4:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
4:30 - 5:00 RECEPTION AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION
Directions to:
Briarwood Retirement Community
65 Briarwood Circle
Worcester, MA
From the east and south: Take I-290 to Exit 22 (Main St., Shrewsbury). Bear right at the end of the exit ramp and cross over Lake Quinsigamond. At the next traffic light, turn right onto Plantation St./ Northeast Cutoff. Continue past Clark Street (on left) and take your immediate next right onto Briarwood Circle (If you pass a mosque on the left, you've gone to far.). Continue up the hill to the main administration building. Our meeting room is on the second floor.
From the west and north: Take I-190 to Exit 2 (West Mountain St.). Follow North Frontage Road to West Mountain Street. Turn right and continue across West Boylston Street at which point West Mountain becomes East Mountain. Continue past the Worcester Country Club (on left) and the mosque (on right) and turn left onto Briarwood Circle. Continue up the hill to the main administration building. Our meeting room is on the second floor.
Meeting Registration payable at the door is $10.00 for members and $12.00 for nonmembers.
A buffet lunch is being offered on site for $6.50. Advance lunch registrations are required. Send your reservation by March 25th with a check for $6.50 to:
Massachusetts Archaeological Society
P.O. Box 700
Middleborough, MA 02346
Questions?
Tonya Largy: tonya.largy@verizon.net
Phone: 508-358-4646
Maryanne MacLeod: marmacster@aol.net
Phone: 978-368-8552
