Conference Announcement:
Virginia Academy of Sciences:  Archaeology Section
May 25-26, 1995 (Thursday & Friday)
Lexington, Virginia
 
This years VAS conference will include 3 Archaeology
sessions plus a COVA meeting.
(COVA is Council of Virginia Archaeologists)
 
Sessions:
        General Historic Archaeology Session
                Thursday May 25   8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
                (Don LineBaugh presiding)
        African-American Archaeology Session
                Thursday May 25   1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
                (Dennis Blanton presiding)
        General Prehistoric Session
                Friday May 26        9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
                (Gene Barfield Presiding)
        Council of Virginia Archaeologist meeting
                Friday May 26        1:15 PM - 5:00 PM
                (Dennis Pogue, President)
 
Below is a list of the papers being presented in each of the
sessions.  If anyone requires  additional information on the
conference or on any of the individual sessions or papers,
please feel free to E-mail or call me.
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Papers being presented:
 
General Historic Archaeology Session:
 
Chemical Characterization as a Means of Exploring the
Production and Distribution of Ceramic Roofing Tiles in
Williamsburg, VA.  John D. Metz - The Colonial
Willamsburg Foundation.
 
 Further Analysis of the Pope Site:  An Eighteenth Century
Farmstead in Southhampton County, Virginia.  Ester White,
Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association.
 
Folk Art, Architecture, and Artifact:  Toward a Material
Understanding of the German Culture in the Valley of
Virginia.  Donald W. LineBaugh, William and Mary Center
for Archaeological Reseach.
 
Historical Development and Use of  Wooden Water Pipe
and the Recovery of a Twentieth Century Example from
Hopewell, Virginia.  Kenneth E. Stuck, William and Mary
Center for Archaeological Research.
 
Tales of the Ordinary:  Ealy Taverns of Rockbridge County,
Virginia.  Kurt C. Russ and John Paul Lunn, Washington
and Lee University Research center for Archaeology.
 
Assemblage Analysis at the Reconstructed Slave Quarters,
Stratford Hall Plantation.  Christina Stanczak, Mary
Washington College.
 
Virginia Junior Academy of Science Award Paper.
 
 
African American Archaeology Session:
 
"One Cannot Call Them by the Name of Houses ...": The
Search for George Washington's Union  Farm Slave
Quarter.  Curt Breckenridge, Mt. Vernon Ladies'
Association.
 
African American Foodways During the 19th Centruy at the
Octagon.  Elizabeth A. Moore and Rebecca Hess, R.
Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc.
 
The Long Mountain Community:  Black & White Relations
in the Late Nineteenth/ Early Twentieth Century.  George
A. Tolley and Mark Martin,  George Washington National
Forest.
 
Hitting the Nail on the Head:  Nails and Their Meaning on
an Historic Slave Site.  Michael Strutt, Corporation for
Jefferson's Poplar Forest.
 
The Isaac D, Burrell Pharmacy Site (44RN256):  An
African-American Drugstore 1897-1918.  Michael B.
Barber and Michael F. Barber, Preservation Technologies,
Inc.
 
Evolution, Uses, and Cultural Implications of Glassware at
the Dr. Isaac D. Burrell Pharmacy, A Black Owned
Drugstore in Roanoke, VA.  Eugene B. Barfield and Joel C.
Hardison, Jefferson National Forest.
 
Ealy Twentieth Century Meat Consumption in an African
American Neighborhood:  The Isaac D. Burrell Pharmacy
Site (44RN256).  Michael B. Barber, Preservation
Technologies, Inc.
 
Farm to Foundry:  African American Transitions in
Montgomery County.  Jane Peterson and Charles Downing,
William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research.
 
Relocating the Foundations of Jennie Dean's Vision:
Archaeological Testing at the Mannassa Industrial School.
John H. Sprinkle, Jr., Louis Berger & Associates, Inc.
 
"Observation, Participation, Education":  Working to
Expand the Relevance of African American Sites.  Anna
Agbe-Davies, Department of Archaeological Research,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
 
 
General Prehistoric Session:
 
 The Role of Archaeology in Virginia's Natural History.
Howard A. MacCord.
 
Prehistoric Sun Circles, Ceremonies, and RockArt.  William
Jack Hranicky.
 
Prehistoric Archaeology at the Mulberry Island Site,
Richmond County, VA.  Courtney Anderson, Mary
Washington College.
 
A Skeletal Comparison of Human Remains from Two Late
Woodland Sites in Smyth County, VA.  Cliff Boyd and
Donna Boyd, Separtment of Sociology and Anthropology,
Radford University.
 
Settlement and CRM:  Prehistoric Land Use in Virginia's
Powell Valley.  Stevan Pullins and Jane Peterson, College
of Willaim and Mary Center for Archaeological Research.
 
Settlement and Subsistence in the Virginia Piedmont and
Fall Zone:  Survey from Two Military Bases.  Clifton A.
Huston, William and Mary Research Center for
Archaeology.
 
Excavations at the Stratified Cactus Hill Paleoindian-
Archaic Site (44SX202):  Rescue Archaeology in a
Sandbox.  Mike Johnson.
 
The Indian ARK:  Archaeology Research Kit.  Kieth T.
Egloff.