This is the second call for papers for the SHA 2004 conference. Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. Those interested please send a package of abstracts, completed registration forms 1, 2D, and 3 (available on SHA website), and the appropriate payment (check written to Society for Historical Archaeology) to the address shown at the end of this message. Please also send an electronic copy of the abstract to this e-mail address. Students please include a copy of your student i.d. in the package in order to qualify for student registration rates. Abstract deadline: May 9, 2003, with an final deadline of May 15, 2003. Thanks.


Proposed session: French colonial archaeology of the southeastern United States, Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean region, Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri, January 2004.

The idea for this session stemmed from the French Colonial Pottery Conference, held in September 2002, in Marksville, LA. The majority of the published archaeological material regarding France's role in the European settlement of the Western Hemisphere is representative of the colonial territory north of the 33rd parallel. While there has been much field research in the "southern-half" of the colonial territory it has yet to be compiled.

The purpose of this session will be to pull together various aspects of this "southern-half" of the French colonial frontier of the late 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Possible topics for the session include, but are not restricted to:

*Material culture studies

*Architecture, plantation and town planning

*Licit and illicit trade, cultural interaction, slavery and plantation system, urban vs. rural, etc.

*Theoretical issues, such as cultural heritage, preservation, and management, notions of social identification, new definitions or understandings of social categories

*Papers are not restricted to terrestrial sites, but would like to include submerged/shipwreck sites as well

*Papers are also not necessarily restricted only to sites below the 33rd parallel

There is a good chance that the papers from this session will result in publication as an edited volume of essays.

Those interested please send proposals, ideas, or questions to this e-mail address

or snail mail to the address below.

Thank you.

Meredith D. Hardy



Department of Anthropology
Florida State University
1847 W. Tennessee St.
Tallahassee, FL 32304


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