If you’re headed to Albuquerque in a few weeks for the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, be sure to check out the great talks by archaeologists at the Florida Museum. Florida Archaeology is chairing a session on research with legacy collections that we’re especially excited to share. Full list of Florida Museum presentations PDF.

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[362] SYMPOSIUM “RE-EXCAVATING” LEGACY COLLECTIONS

Room: 240 La Cienega

Time: 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

Chairs: Lindsay Bloch, Amanda Hall and Donna Ruhl

Participants:

1:00 Lindsay Bloch—Rose Red-Filmed by Any Other Name: Pottery Typology and Genealogy in the Southeastern US

1:15 Elise LeCompte—The Paper Chase: Legacy Collections’ Records

1:30 Elizabeth Bollwerk, Jillian Galle, Lynsey Bates, Leslie Cooper and Fraser Neiman—Creating Context: Analyzing Legacy Documentary Data to Understandthe Emergence of Enslaved Societies at Flowerdew Hundred Plantation

1:45 Sarah Platt—Artifact Boxes and Cans of Worms; Navigating the 87 ChurchStreet Legacy Collections

2:00 Deanna De Boer and Samantha Wade—Who Tells Your Story? Utilizing LegacyCollections to Serve a Living Culture

2:15 Margo Schwadron—Lost and Found and the Peculiar Lives of Collections: Examples of Bridging Ethical Stewardship and Research with Florida National Park Legacy Collections

2:30 Jenna Battillo, R.G. Matson and William Lipe—Tale of a Test Pit: The Research History of a Midden Column from the Turkey Pen Site, Utah

2:45 Amanda Hall—Rewriting Narratives by Challenging Old Ideas: The Potential in Applying Recent Innovations in Archaeology to Legacy Collections.

3:00 Jeffrey Alvey, Evan Peacock and Joseph Mitchell—The Value of Legacy Collections for Recognizing and Reducing Error in Artifact Analysis

3:15 Nathan Lawres—Relatedness, Circularity, and Place-Centeredness in Belle Glade Artifacts: Reevaluating South Florida Collections from an Ontological Framework

3:30 Laura Van Voorhis, Ellen Lofaro, Neill Wallis and Donna Ruhl—Bioarchaeology Legacy Collections: Varying Perspectives, Perceptions, and Challenges

3:45 Donna Ruhl—The Hidden Voice of Forests: Revisiting Archaeobotanical Legacy Collections from Southeastern U.S. Shell Rings

4:00 Dru McGill—Discussant

4:15 Questions and Answers