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From: James C. Bard <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:26 PM
Dear HISTARCH recipients,
The SHA has accepted the symposium Numismatic Archaeology of North America
- Contributions, Progress, and Prospects.
Contribution ID: 21
Program Division: Terrestrial Program
Keywords: Numismatic archaeology, coins, tokens Numismatic Archaeology of
North America - Contributions, Progress, and Prospects
Organizer(s): James C Bard (Ancient Artifact LLC), Marjorie H Akin (Retired
consultant and author)
Chair(s): James C Bard (Ancient Artifact LLC), Marjorie H Akin (Retired
consultant and author)
Discussant(s): James C Bard (Ancient Artifact LLC), Marjorie H Akin
(Retired consultant and author), Kevin Akin (author)
Numismatic archaeology in North America is a developing sub-discipline
within Historical Archaeology. Coins, tokens, medals and other forms of
money are recovered from archaeological sites throughout North America but
until recently, their interpretive potential has not been fully understood.
Numismatic material culture and the contexts in which it is recovered is
laden with behavioral information that can shed light on agency,
technology, commerce, ritual and symbolism, and aspects of how material
culture enters the archaeological record. This symposium shares the results
of several diverse studies conducted with numismatic material culture, both
from terrestrial and underwater contexts. It brings together researchers
interested in advancing numismatic archaeology; the session will wrap up
with open discussion roundtable and an interactive 'name that coin/token'
(a mini Numismatic Roadshow) exercise to identify and interpret
audience-volunteered numismatic artifacts.
Time Period: Colonial to early-mid 20th century
Region: North America
Structure Information: Paper presentations followed by discussion and
roundtable and artifact identification exercise.
Sponsor: Ancient Artifact LLC
On behalf of Margie Akin and myself, I invite interested HISTARCH members
to participate in this symposium with a paper presentation. As you can see
from the abstract above, our vision is to have about two hours' worth of
papers (15 minutes each) - ca. 8 papers followed by a discussion/
roundtable and a mini-Numismatic Roadshow where we (or our audience) can
provide numismatic items (in the flesh or by photograph) for the group to
identify and interpret. It should be fun!
Paper presentations can be of current, or past research. Because we hope to
advance the subfield of numismatic archaeology to a wider audience, please
feel free to re-use or adapt earlier research, publications, and the like
as we believe that for the SHA audience, this symposium will be a valuable
introduction to this subfield.
Underwater archaeology contributions are most welcome - SHA allowed only
one "classification" - we chose terrestrial. It would be great to have a
mix of both terrestrial and underwater contributions.
Please let me know if you can present a paper, be a discussant/roundtable
participant (or both), and if you have a numismatic item(s) for the
numismatic roadshow that we'll use to wrap up our symposium after the paper
presentations and discussions.
Please forward this to anybody that you may know that has an interest in
numismatic archaeology and/or who may be willing to participate in the
symposium.
My primary email address is
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I can also be reached (as a secondary email) at
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My cell phone is 541-740-2199; if I don't pick up, please leave a message.
Thank you!
Jim Bard and Margie Akin
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