Agenda
Graham Memorial Building (218 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514), Kresge Common Room (Room: GM-039)
Friday, September 26, 2025
| 8:30 – 9:30 am | Colonoware Show and Tell |
| 9:30 – 10:45 am | Characterizing Colonoware and Its Variation – Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton and Thomas E. Beaman – Various Sites in North Carolina – Patrick H. Garrow – 18th -century Pipes from Wilmington, North Carolina – Vin Steponaitis – Fort Rosalie – Natchez, Mississippi – Luke Pecoraro – Early colonial period Drayton Hall, South Carolina – Discussion |
| 10:45 – 11 am | Break |
| 11 am – 12 pm | Approaches and Methods 1 – Nicole Isenbarger – Identity and Memory at Charles Towne Landing – Jeff Sherard – MNV and Residential Interaction – Jon Bernard Marcoux and Corey A.H. Sattes – Morphometric Analysis – Discussion |
| 12 – 1 pm | Lunch |
| 1 – 2 pm | Approaches and Methods 2 – Eleanora A. Reber – Absorbed Pottery Residues – Matt Greer – Synthetic Approach to Production and Use – Elizabeth Bollwerk – Regional Approach to Colonoware Use between Virginia and South Carolina – Lindsay Bloch – Empirical Approaches to Defining Communities of Practice – Discussion |
| 2:15 – 2:45 pm | Final Discussion |
| SECHSA Conference | |
| 3-5 pm | Mark Hewitt Pottery Tour 424 Johnny Burke Rd, Pittsboro, NC |
| 6 – 8 pm | SECHSA Reception Haw River Tap and Table 300 East Main St, Unit C, Carrboro, NC Free parking garage be- hind the nearby Hampton Inn |
Saturday, September 27, 2025
| 9-10 am | Session: Household Archaeology and Plantation Sites – Exploring the Links between Low-Fired Earthenware and Structures in the Inland Lowcountry: Investigations into the Material Culture of the Enslaved Experience at the Bedone’s Plantation at Beech Hill, Site 38DR408, in Dorchester County, South Carolina (Jeff L. Sherard and Dave Baluha) – Synthesizing Archaeological Data: Plantations along the Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina (Devon L. Borgardt) – “am plundered severely but blessed be God I am spar’d yet”: The Impact of British Major James Wemyss’s Violence against South Carolinians on the Pee Dee River during the Revolutionary War (Andrew Agha) –Discussion and Questions | |
| 10-11:15 am | Session: Archaeology of Coastal Sites and Waterways – At the Water’s Edge: An Overview of the Brunswick Town Colonial Waterfront Project (Jeremy Borrelli) – Viewing the Land from the Sea: Preliminary Investigations of Brunswick Town’s Southern Waterfront Structures (Jennier McKinnon) – Understanding La Feature: Discovery, Recovery, and Preliminary Analysis of an Unidentified Shipwreck at Brunswick Town (Jason T. Raupp and Jeremy Borrelli) – An Archaeology of a Gullah Geechee Wa- terscape (Jodi A. Barnes) – Discussion and Questions | |
| 11:15 am – 12:15 pm | Session: Material Culture Studies – Building the Plantation Landscape: Brickmaking and Labor at the Neabsco Ironworks Site (Zachary McKeeby and Whitney Mahl – Reexamining North Carolina’s Moravian- made Tobacco Pipes through a Moral Economy Framework (Geoffrey R. Hughes) – On North Georgia Igneo-Metamorphic Stone and Local Grave Marker Traditions (Hugh B. Matternes) – Discussion and Questions | |
| 12:15 – 1:30 pm | Lunch on your own | |
| 1:30 pm | Posters | |
| 2-2:30 pm | Archaeological Research of Legacy Collections – The North Carolina Arsenal: Industrial Landscape of Ordnance Production (James Stewart) – Excavating Earliest Edenton: 2001 Archaeology under the 1767 Chowan County Courthouse (Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton and Thomas D. Beaman) – There’s a Charles Towne North Carolina? (Sherry Boyette) – Discussion and Questions | |
| 3 pm | SECHSA Business Meeting |