Call for Papers

The 2025 Southeastern Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology (SECHSA) will be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC, September 26-27, 2025. In recognition of the conference’s founding member (and UNC Alum), Stanley South, the theme of this year’s conference will be Landscapes of Production. South conducted groundbreaking research into the spatial organization of craft production at North Carolina colonial sites including Brunswick Town and the Moravian settlement of Bethabara. Taking inspiration from this work, the conference will explore our southeastern landscapes of “production” broadly construed – the making of things – from household production of pottery vessels to industrial manufacturing.  Keeping with the tradition of SECHSA, paper presentations and posters addressing other current research in historical archaeology are also welcome. 

We invite submissions for paper presentations and posters addressing our theme (or other historical archaeology topics). Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Due to wall space, posters must be no larger than 5 feet wide. The deadline for paper/poster abstracts is July 1st, 2025.

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About SECHSA

Carl Steen, Natalie Adams Pope, and David Jones initiated SECHSA to provide archaeologists working at historic sites in the southeast a place to share their research and exchange ideas.  The initial meeting of SECHSA was held at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site on August 24-25, 2012. SECHSA took inspiration from Stanley South’s Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology, which held meetings annually between 1960 and 1982.  Smaller than the national scope of the original concept, SECHSA’s regional emphasis provides a broader gathering than individual state meetings can provide, but one more focused and intimate than a national conference. SECHSA thus offers archaeologists a forum dedicated to topics of concern to historical archaeology in the southeast.