Conference Schedule
Thursday, August 20th
| 5:00 – 7:30 PM | Charleston’s History Happy Hour Reception |
Friday, August 21st
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Conference Registration and Coffee Hour |
| 9:00 – 11:00 AM | Curiosities and Oddities: An Artifact Workshop |
| 11:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch – On Your Own |
| 1:30 – 3:30 PM | Perspectives, Practice, and Inevitability: A Conversation |
| 3:30 – 5:00 pm | May Forest History Room Presentations and Self-Guided Fort Johnson Tour |
| 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm | Low Country Boil Conference Reception at May Forest |
Saturday, August 22nd
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Conference Registration and Coffee Hour |
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Conference Welcome and Introduction |
| 9:30 – 9:50 AM | Morning Session A – Stewardship and Public Archaeology |
| 9:50 – 10:10 AM | Morning Break |
| 10:10 – 11:10 AM | Morning Session B – Materializing Memory: Sites, Collections, and Landscapes |
| 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM | Lunch Options “Build Your Own” Sandwich and Homestyle Sides Picnic Lunch Provided – OR – On Your Own |
| 12:30 – 1:00 PM | Poster Presentations |
| 1:00 –2:40 PM | Afternoon Session A – Revisiting Places, Reframing Histories |
| 2:40 – 3:00 PM | Afternoon Break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 PM | Afternoon Session B – Emerging Analytical Approaches |
| 4:00 – 4:45 PM | SECHSA 2026 Business Meeting |
Presentation and Session Details
Saturday, August 22nd
7:30 – 8:20 AM Conference Registration and Coffee Hour
8:20 – 8:30 AM Conference Welcome and Introduction
May Forest State Park Ranger Jay Reese
Morning Session A – Stewardship and Public Archaeology
8:30-8:50
Understanding Archaeological Interpretation at Southeastern State Parks
Rachael Lanning, University of South Carolina
8:50-9:10
Community Engaged Research and Black Land Loss in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Jodi A. Barnes, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust Program
9:10-9:30
Case Studies in South Carolina’s Abandoned Cemetery Law
Ralph Bailey, Brockington and Associates
9:30-9:50
Dust on the Bottles: Updates on Select Historic Legacy Collections at SCIAA
Joseph A. Lindler Jr., Eleanor Davis, Sara Rogers, Ethan Anderson, Joanna Sports, Morgan Graybill, Mackenzie Kane, and Nina M. Schreiner, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology8
9:50 – 10:10 Morning Break
Morning Session B – Materializing Memory: Sites, Collections, and Landscapes
10:10-10:30
This Ground on which We Stand: Results from the Archaeological Investigation of the May Forest State Park Lauren Christian and Cory France, New South Associates
10:30-10:50 “
IF THE OLD DOG SNIFFS ENOUGH, HE WILL FIND THE SOURCE:” A Case for the Discovery of John Bartlam’s Kiln on the Wando.
Jeff L. Sherard, Brockington and Associates; Martha Zierden, Emeritus, The Charleston Museum; Eric Poplin, Brockington and Associates
10:50-11:10
An Examination of Slave Demographics, Architecture, and Pottery on an Inland Rice Plantation, Dorchester County, South Carolina.
Larry James, Brockington and Associates
11:10 – 12:30 Lunch Break
12:30 – 1:00 Poster Session
The Reburying African American Ancestors Project
Larissa Daniels-Hill, Nina M. Schreiner, Julia Shough; South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
The Worked Bone Assemblage from USC’s Historic Horseshoe
Ryan Gomez, University of South Carolina Public Heritage Lab
South Carolina DNR Statewide Cemetery Project
Karen Smith, Brian Long, Jodi A. Barnes, and Sam McDorman; South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust Program
Afternoon Session A – Revisiting Places, Reframing Histories
1:00-1:20
Trainspotting: Aiken and the Charleston to Hamburg Railway 1833-1852
Keith Stephenson, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Carl Steen.
1:20-1:40
The Point of Diminishing Returns
Jonathan Schleier, Public Archaeology Corps
1:40-2:00
New Perspectives at Fayetteville Arsenal (Site 31CD280) in Cumberland County, North Carolina
Abigail Bythell, New South Associates
2:00-2:20
Latimer House Archaeology
Patrick H. Garrow and Cora Hoeing, Public Archaeology Corps
2:20-2:40
Archaeological Monitoring at 38RD1598: Sourcing a Modern Midden
Christopher Judge, Office of State Archaeologist, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.
2:40 – 3:00 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Session B – Emerging Analytical Approaches
3:00-3:20
The Evolution of Governor Robert Daniell’s Home Site (38BK815), Daniel Island, Berkeley County, South Carolina
David Baluha, Brockington and Associates
3:20-3:40
GPR Survey of The Archaeological Conservancy’s Eden House Preserve
Jenifer Elam, Donald Rowe, and Ellen Turco, Richard Grubb and Associates
3:40-4:00
Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Plantation Brick Analysis
Carolyn Dillian, Coastal Carolina University
4:00-4:45 2026 SECHSA Business Meeting