Hi all.  Here's the program for the 10th South 
Central Historical Archeology Conference, to be 
held at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, 26-28 
September.  This program with paper abstracts 
will go  up soon on the SCHAC web page, 
at 
http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/schac.html 
.  For registration or more information about WRI see www.uawri.org. Yall come.


Friday, September 26, 2008
12:30-2:00 pm Tour of Petit Jean Mountain Rock 
Art.  Rendezvous at Education Barn, WRI.
1:00-2:30         Registration at the Barn
2:30-3:00         Leslie C. “Skip” 
Stewart-Abernathy, Arkansas Archeological 
Survey.  The View from Petit Jean Mountain: 
Update on the Move to the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute.
3:00-3:30      Eric Proebsting, Thomas 
Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.  The Living Landscape: 
Community Life on the Antebellum Frontier of Northeast Arkansas.
3:30- 4:00     Anna Lunn, Weaver & Associates, 
Guy Weaver, Weaver & Associates, Milton Moreland, 
Rhodes College.  Archaeology at Ames Plantation: 
Rhodes College Field Seasons 2007-2008.
4:00-4:30     Mary Farmer, Arkansas Archeological 
Survey.  Up From The Ashes: The Thibault House on Fourche Island.
4:30-5:00         Lynita Langley-Ware, Faulkner 
County Museum (Arkansas). From Saintonge Ware to 
Weedeater String; Most Recent Excavations at Cadron.
5:00-5:30         Liz Davoli, Louisiana 
Department of Transportation and 
Development.  But It’s Just Some Broken Plates 
and Bottles!  DOTD Cultural Resources Projects, 2007-2008

Dinner on your own, at River Rock Grill or State Park Lodge
8:00 pm           BYOB Social, Tack Room, WRI.

Saturday, September 27, 2008, Education Barn, WRI
8:00-9:00am  Registration, Poster Displays, Coffee
9:00–9:30am   Don Higgins, Independent Scholar, 
Arkansas Archeological Society.  Dr. Hardison and 
the Beginnings of Petit Jean Archeology.
9:30-10:00       Joan Gould, Preservation 
Matters.  Challenges to Retrieving the Early 
History of Current River Crossings:  Travelers, Ferries, War and Destruction.
10:00-10:30     Kathleen H. Cande, Arkansas 
Archeological Survey.  Muffins, Chimneys and 
Clinkers: Rediscovering Old Davidsonville, 
Arkansas' First County Seat Town, 1815-1830.
10:30-11:00     Break
11:00-11:30     Larry Porter, Arkansas 
Archeological Survey.  The Widow Logan Site:  An 
Antebellum Farmstead in Logan County, Arkansas.
11:30-12:00     Joanne Ryan, Coastal 
Environments.  Sweet, Replete and Not 
Petite:  Data-Recovery Excavations at the 
Greenfield/Allemania Plantation Sugar House, Ibervile Parish, Louisiana.
12:00-1:30pm  Lunch at Rock River Grill
1:30-2:00         Jamie C. Brandon, Arkansas 
Archeological Survey.  A Different Kind of "Old 
Roman" Archeology: Recent Investigations at the 
Royston House (3HE236-91), Historic Washington 
State Park, Washington, Arkansas.
2:00-230        Jack Bergstresser, Alabama 
Historical Commission.  The Slave Quarters at 
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park.
2:30-3:00         Katherine R. Cleek, Dept of 
Anthropology, University of 
Arkansas.  Transportation Access and its Effects 
on Ceramic Diversity:  Examples from Illinois, Iowa, and Arkansas.
3:00-3:30         Break
3:30-4:00         William McAlexander, Arkansas 
Highways and Transportation Department. The Yanks 
are com'in, the Yanks are com'in (I 
thought):  Five Sites along Lake Chicot and the 
Almost Total Lack of Civil War Evidence for the 
Battle of Ditch Bayou and the Assault on Lake Village.
4:00-4:30         Doug Heffington, Middle 
Tennessee State University, and Steve Ward, 
Radnor Lake State Natural Area.  The Radnor Lake 
Project:  Coalescence of Geography, History and Archeology.
4:30-5:00         Liz Davoli.  The Evolution of a 
Road: Front Street in Natchitoches.
5:00-5:30         Thurston Hahn, Coastal 
Environments.  Roads to the Future Passed:  Front 
Street, Natchitoches, Louisiana.
5:30-5:32         Business Meeting

6:30–8:00        Dinner at Rock River Grill
8:00 pm           BYOB Social, Tack Room, WRI.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
10:00-12:00     Tour/Workshop.  Sense of Place 
Exhibit, Arkansas Tech Museum, Russellville.
Led by Mary Brennan, Anthropology Dept, 
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and USFS. 
She is curator of the exhibit drawn from her 
historical archaeology dissertation fieldwork on 
community formation and landscapes of memory in 
the Arkansas Ozarks.  Includes presentations by 
USFS staff Mike Walden, on georeferencing 1937 
aerial photos as practical matter to aid 
fieldwork, and Ben Gentry on how georeferencing works with GIS.

And as a non-conference lecture but interesting 
bonus at the Arkansas Tech Museum:
2:00                 Tom Dillard, Director, 
University of Arkansas Special Collections. 
Series of Discovery Lecture at Museum: Going 
Beyond the Arkansas Traveler: Some Thoughts on Arkansas Transportation History.


And thanks for support for this conference go 
to:  the Arkansas Archeological Survey, the Winthrop

Leslie C. "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy, Ph.D.
Arkansas Archeological Survey
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Petit Jean Mountain
1 Rockefeller Drive
Morrilton, AR 72110
501 727-6250