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December 5, 2025: Where Do We Go From Here: Future Possibilities for Flowerdew Hundred

Dr. Mike Barber, J. Eric Deetz, Taft Kiser, and Chardé Reid

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November 15, 2025: Countering Colonial Narratives of Native Places | Crafting Home in Hostile Spaces: Materiality and the Politics of Belonging on a Chesapeake Plantation

Taylor Callaway, College of William and Mary, and Macie Clerkley, Brown University

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October 31, 2025: Colonial Confidence and the Archaeology of St. Mary’s Fort | Compositional Analysis of the Jamestown Glass Bead Assemblage

Dr. Travis Parno, Historic St. Mary's City, Dr. Elliot Blair, University of Alabama, and Dr. Dennis Blanton, James Madison University

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September 19, 2025: Modern Methods, Historic Materials: Re-evaluating Four Seventeenth Century Sites From Flowerdew Hundred Plantation

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Bollwerk and Dr. Fraser Neiman, DAACS/Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

September 4, 2025: Post 1975: A Brief Review of the Last Fifty Years of the Archaeology of Early Virginia.

Dr. Carter L. Hudgins (Director Emeritus, Clemson University Graduate Program in Historic Preservation)

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December 13, 2024: Towards an Archaeology of Animals: Expanding on Zooarchaeological Analysis in Historical Contexts

Dr. Ryan Kennedy, Indiana University

November 22, 2024: Copper on the Borderlands of New Spain

Dr. Russell Skowronek, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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November 8, 2024: Exploring Evidence of Marketed Colonoware at Drayton Hall and the South Carolina Lowcountry

Corey Sattes, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

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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

October 11, 2024: How Cattle Made the Americas: Zooarchaeology, Digital Humanities, and Molecular Archaeology Tracking Bovines in the Western Hemisphere

Dr. Nicolas Delsol, Université Laval

September 27, 2024: XRF Analysis of Glass Trade Beads

Dr. Elliot Blair, University of Alabama

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July 19, 2024: Lightning Talks on Current Research in South Carolina and Florida

Dr. Kendy Altizer, University of North Georgia, Dr. Jodi Barnes, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Dr. Luke Pecoraro, Drayton Hall, and Myles Sullivan, University of Florida

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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

Dr. Diane Wallman, University of South Florida

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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

Dr. Cameron Monroe, University of California, Santa Cruz

February 16, 2024: Sharp Gradients of Landscape Design in 18th-Century Saint Domingue (Haiti)

Dr. Finola O'Kane, University College Dublin and Royal Irish Academy

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February 2, 2024: Marronnage in Saint-Domingue (Haïti): An Archaeological Approach

Camille Louis, University of California, Santa Cruz and Monticello

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January 19, 2024: Digging into Haiti's Past

Dr. Joseph Sony Jean, Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

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December 15, 2023: Teaching Material Culture for Heritage Preservation: A Case Study in Community Science from Suriname

Dr. Lindsay Bloch, Tempered Archaeological Services and DAACS, and Dr. Elizabeth Bollwerk, DAACS

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December 1, 2023: Looking for the African Diaspora Past

Dr. Cheryl White, Anton de Kom University of Suriname

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November 17, 2023: The Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Archaeological Activities on the Jewish Settlement

Sushmeeta Taruna Ganesh and Jõvan Ranalfo Samson, Jodensavanne Foundation

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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

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October 20, 2023: The State of Archaeology in Suriname: Making Something Out of Nothing

Dr. Cheryl White, Anton de Kom University of Suriname

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September 22, 2023: Soto's Signature? XRF Analysis of Metal Artifacts from the American Southeast

Dr. Lindsay Bloch, Tempered Archaeological Services and DAACS, Dr. Charles Cobb, Dr. Nicolas Delsol, and Dr. Gifford Waters, Florida Museum of Natural History

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November 11, 2022: Deciphering the Occupational History of an Eighteenth-century Domestic Site at Monticello from Plowzone Evidence.

Dr. Fraser Neiman, Director, Monticello Department of Archaeology

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October 7, 2022: Beyond the “Castle” Walls: Investigating the Landscape and Political Economy of a Southside, Virginia Plantation, ca. 1630-1730 AND "Saying Their Names": Decolonizing Interpretation of the Liberty Hall Academic and Plantation Landscape

Rebekah Planto, College of William and Mary, and Donald Gaylord, Washington and Lee

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September 23, 2022: Changing the Narrative: Public Archaeology at James Monroe’s Highland AND “The Three Rooms, In Which The Servants Lodged, Below The Well…”: Revisiting The Triplex At James Monroe’s Highland

Dr. Sara Bon-Harper and Kyle Edwards, James Monroe's Highland

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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 Dr. 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

Dr. Carolyn Heitman, Associate Professor University of Nebraska

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March 25, 2022: Fragments of Freedom: Remnants of Emancipated Life in Free Gut

Gabrielle Miller, Smithsonian Institute and University of Tulsa

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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

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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, 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

Dr. Elizabeth Bollwerk, DAACS, and Dr. Fraser Neiman, Monticello Department of Archaeology

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January 28, 2022: Ground Truthing Archaeological Interpretations: Revisiting Annapolis’ Spirit Bundles AND Gilt by Association: Identifying Copper Alloy Equestrian Buckles in Archaeological Assemblages

Dr. Garrett Fesler, Alexandria Archaeology, and Sara Rivers Cofield, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory

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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

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October 29, 2021: Decolonizing legacy collections in the Caribbean: a view from Puerto Rico

Dr. Paola Schiappacasse, Universidad de Puerto Rico

October 15, 2021: Building Better Interpretations, Building Better Fieldworkers: Using Legacy Collections

Dr. Julia A. King, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

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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

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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

July 9, 2021: Artifact Data Quality in Historical Archaeology: Insights from the DAACS Material Culture Assessment

Dr. Jillian Galle, Project Director, DAACS

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June 25, 2021: Improving the transparency and reproducibility of historical archaeological research: A case study in teaching how slavery ended at New River Village, Nevis

Dr. Ben Marwick, Professor, University of Washington

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June 4, 2021: Local Trade and Global Markets: Sourcing Coarse Earthenware at Morne Patate Plantation, Dominica

Dr. Lindsay Bloch, Collections Manager, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Dr. Elizabeth Bollwerk, Project Manager, DAACS

May 21, 2021: Enslaved Native American Plantation Pottery? A View from History

Dr. Andrew Johnson, Independent Scholar

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May 7, 2021: Persistent Traditions: Lithic Technologies at the Franciscan Missions of La Florida

Dr. Charles Cobb, Curator and Dr. Gifford Waters, Collections Manager, Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Florida

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April 23, 2021: The Pockoy Island Shell Ring Project: Problem-Oriented Salvage Archaeology in a Time of Climate Change

Dr. Karen Smith, Archaeological Research Manager, 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.

Dr. Fraser Neiman, Director of Archaeology, Monticello

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March 12, 2021: An Archaeology of the Stewart Castle Great House, Trelawny, Jamaica

Sean Devlin, Curator of Archaeological Collections, Mount Vernon

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February 26, 2021: Enslavement, Freedom, and Labor Coercion in the Caribbean: Contextualizing Carved Ceramic Discs at the Morne Patate Estate, Dominica

Dr.Jillian Galle, Director, DAACS, Dr. Lynsey Bates, DAACS (emerita), and Dr. Khadene Harris, Assistant Professor, Kenyon College

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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

Dr. Diane Wallman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida

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January 29, 2021: Everyday Forms of Resilience: A Reflection on the Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica after 10 years

Dr. Mark Hauser, Associate Professor, Northwestern University

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January 15, 2021: The Archaeology of Houseyards at the Morne Patate Estate 1750-1900

Khadene Harris, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kenyon College

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December 4, 2020: Colonoware Pottery in the Colonial Lowcountry

Dr. Jon Marcoux, Director of Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Clemson/College of Charleston, and Corey Sattes, Wexler Curatorial Fellow, Drayton Hall

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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

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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

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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