Hello,

I am interested in submitting a paper to the session you are organizing.
Eastern Carolina is a prime regional candidate for the kind of approach you
mention and we are currently excavating a local site that falls within the
parameters. As a recent member of the SHA, however, I don't know what the
length of a session paper might be. Please let me know and I'll send along an
abstract.

Maureen Basedow
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Anthropology Program
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28401

910 962-3429 (office)
910 341-3071 (home)





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>Having recently accepted a position as Research Associate and Southeastern
>Regional Archaeologist in the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State
>University, I am eager to dive into the archaeology of the Southeastern
>U.S.  So, I propose to put together a session for the 2001 SHA meetings
>to be held in Mobile, AL.  The conference theme being "Colonial Origins",
>I have tentatively titled the session, "Bridging the 'Great Divide':
>Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Continuity, Conflict,
>Negotiation and Change in the Greater Southeast, ca A.D. 1100-1850."
>
>Recently both (ethno)historians and archaeologists have challenged us to
>look beyond the "Great Divide" between "prehistory" (a construct that
>needs to be critically examined) and history.  Researchers such as
>Galloway, Lightfoot and Salisbury urge us to look for the ways that
>historical processes and trajectories of the pre-and proto-colonial
>periods shaped the encounters between Natives and newcomers during and
>beyond the colonial period.
>
>I am looking for papers that adopt a critical approach to both the
>documentary and material records.  Papers should illustrate
>their approach with data from specific case studies.  In keeping with the
>"interdisciplinary" nature of this venture, I plan to have at least one
>discussant from outside the field of archaeology.  Please feel free to
>forward this message to anyone you think maybe interested.
>
>Thank You,
>
>
>Rob Mann
>Department of Anthropology
>SUNY-Binghamton
>Binghamton, New York 13902