Dear Fellow Listmembers,
 
I would like to invite you all to the following event to give you a taste of
historical archaeology at Western Michigan University.  all are welcome and I
look forward to seeing some of you there.
 
Michael Nassaney
 
I am pleased to announce that the Department of Anthropology of Western
Michigan University will be presenting a symposium on "Archaeological
and Historical Investigations of the Warren B. Shepard Site (20CA104):
Interpreting the Material Record of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Century Life in Southwest Michigan" at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters (Anthropology Section),
Friday, March 21, 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., to be held at Calvin College, Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
 
Michael S. Nassaney (organizer)
Department of Anthropology
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5032
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8:30-8:50  Michael S. Nassaney, The Southwest Michigan Historic
Landscape Project: Some Goals and Preliminary Results
 
8:50-9:10  Jason D. Lapham, Gender Relations in Rural Nineteenth-Century
Southwest Michigan: Men and Women on the Warren B. Shepard Farm
 
9:10-9:30  Carol A. Nickolai, Two Women and a House: The Archaeology of
Emily and Amanda Shepard, 1876-1920
 
9:30-9:50  Nicole J. Kuemin, Anthropological Perspectives on Architectural
Space: Tracing the History of a Nineteenth Century Farmhouse in Battle
Creek, Michigan
 
9:50-10:10  Lisa Barker, Furniture as Material Culture: Consumer Choices in
Nineteenth Century Michigan
 
10:10-10:30  Break
 
10:30-10:50  William Sauck, Hidetsugu Kosaka, and Kristina Sprietzer,
Archaeological Application of Geophysics at the Warren B. Shepard Site
(20CA104), Battle Creek, Michigan
 
10:50-11:10  Diana Lynn and Conrad Latuszek, Do Your Dishes Match? :
Tracing the Formation of Class and Gender Roles During the Nineteenth
Century Through Material Remains
 
11:10-11:30  Michael Smith, Glassware Analysis of the Shepard Site
 
11:30-11:50  Daniel O. Sayers, Archaeological Approaches to Site Patterning
at a Nineteenth Century Farmstead in Southwest Michigan
 
11:50-12:10  Dean Anderson, Discussant
 
12:10-12:30  Janet Brashler, Discussant
 
12:30-1:00  Open Discussion