The 2006 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference will be held at the
Alumni Center, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana on Saturday November
4.  The purpose of the conference is to present research papers related to
the historical archaeology of the Midwest.  For more information contact
Mark Groover ([log in to unmask]) or go to the following link:
<http://mdgroover.iweb.bsu.edu/Midwest_HA%20Conf.htm>


2006 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference Program

Morning Session

9:00 Retrospect and Prospect in Midwest Historical Archaeology
Mark Groover (Ball State University)

9:25 Investigations at the Eighteenth-Century French and Wea Town of
Kethtippecanunk, Indiana
Michael Strezewski (University of Southern Indiana)

9:50 Identity Formation at a French Colonial Outpost in the Western Great Lakes
Michael Nassaney (Western Michigan University)

10:15 Break

10:30 Horseshoe Pond (11BR442): A Pre-Civil War Farmstead on the Western
Illinois Settlement Frontier
Mark C. Branster (Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program,
University of Illinois) 

10:55 Fighting Irish: Old World Identities, New World Landscapes
Deborah Rotman and Mark Hauser (University of Notre Dame)

11:20  The Web of Identity: A Case Study on African-American Identity and
“Soul Food”
Timothy Baumann (Missouri Valley College)

11:55-12:55 Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:00 Battlefields to Burial Grounds: Recording Indiana’s Cultural Resources
from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812
Amy Johnson (Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic
Preservation and Archaeology)

1:25 There’s No Place Like Home: Gender Archaeology at the Moore-Youse House
Christy Blanch (Ball State University)

1:50 African-American Foodways in the Great Migration: An Archaeology of
20th-Century Faunal Consumption in the Urban North
Kathryn Chris Glidden (Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis)

2:15 Dairy Bottles from Field Museum Collections Resource Center Survey,
Chicago, IL
Carolyn Raugh (Field Museum of Natural History)

2:40 Break

2:55 “Hark from the Tomb”:  Archaeological Evidence of the Survival of West
African Burial Traditions in North America
Jamie Whitaker (Ball State University)

3:20 Documentation and Assessment of Historic Shipwreck New Orleans
Kenneth Vrana (Center for Maritime & Underwater Resource Management)

3:55 Corner Stores and Bottles: African-American Consumption in Indianapolis
Seth Rosenberg (Ball State University)

4:20 Concluding Discussion, Michael Nassaney (Western Michigan University)

Ca. 5:15 Refreshments at Scotty’s