Hi Mark,
Jacksonville in January is appealing.  Do you think our work at Kiakhta
and Irkutsk (given its connection to Russian America) would fit?  Just
pondering.

Dave` 

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Subject: Call for Papers: SHA 2010 session: "Big Histories at Small
Places"

*Call for papers: "Big Histories at Small Places", Society for
Historical Archaeology, 2010*



Greetings!



We are organizing a multi-disciplinary session entitled "Big Histories
at Small Places" for the 2010 Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)
meetings on 6-10 January 2010 at Amelia Island Plantation near
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
(http://www.sha.org/about/conferences/2010.cfm).  This proposed session
will focus upon relatively recent discoveries (realizations,
identifications) of significant long-term historical trajectories or
short-term historical events occurring at places of very limited spatial
scope.



The session is intended to be explicitly non-academic in tone.
Presenters are not limited to archaeologists, and we would very much
like to have historians, historical architects, journalists, etc. as
participants.
Presentations
must focus on material culture and involve plenty of graphic content
appropriate for a popular (non-academic) audience.  While we anticipate
primarily US locations for paper topics, the location can be anywhere in
the world.  Ideally, the end result will be a popular publication,
potentially suitable for educational curricula.



One example of a big history from a small place is our presentation
about community archaeological work at the Baranov Museum property.  In
a very small archaeological sampling (0.22%) of this small 1 acre parcel
during 10 days in June 2008, we uncovered approximately 4000 years of
land use:
material from prehistoric Early Kachemak period, late-18th -
mid-19thcentury Russian-American Company (RAC) occupation, mid-19 th
century Native Alutiiq culture, early 20th century building and
habitation, early-mid-20th century gardens, post-1964 Good Friday
earthquake/tsunami urban renewal, 1980 park construction, and the 2008
present.  While all these are included in the broadly understood land
use history of the city of Kodiak environs, the revealed human history
of this small parcel of land lent unanticipated clarity and specificity
to local historical knowledge: the first prehistoric site ever found in
the city, two previously undocumented early RAC buildings, a rare woven
Alutiiq basket, domestic household children's toys, a building collapsed
by 1912 volcanic ash, a *ca*. 1930 stone-lined garden path, tumbled
structural material from urban renewal razings, and the pre-park ground
surface.  All this visible, hands-on Kodiak history came from a very
little piece of ground, demonstrating the omnipresence of history hidden
just below the surface.



If this proposed 2010 SHA session interests you, please send us an
abstract by 10 July 2009, or write or call us prior to that date with
ideas or questions.



Thank you!



Mark Cassell

Territory Heritage Resource Consulting (Anchorage, Alaska)

907-360-2668

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Katie Oliver

Baranov Museum (Kodiak, Alaska; www.baranovmuseum.org)

907-486-5920
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