MSU @ SAA 2017

Next week, from March 29th – April 2nd, the 82nd Annual Society for American Archaeology meeting is taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  This year we have many MSU faculty and students presenting their work.  Make sure to swing by their talks, posters, and lightening session. The full meeting program can be found here.

CAP director Dr. Lynne Goldstein is receiving two SAA Presidential Recognition Awards.  One for her work on the Task Force on Gender Disparities in Archaeological Grant Submissions, and the other for her work on the Task Force on Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure in Diverse Academic Roles.  Congratulations Dr. Goldstein!  Learn more about each task force in the full meeting program. The award ceremony follows the annual business meeting, Friday March 31st at 5:30 PM.

Rebecca Albert (undergraduate)

Thursday –

• Symposium: Some Like It Hot: Analytic Diversity and Complementarity in the Exploration of Past Cooking and Cuisine
• Time – 9:45 AM
• Room: East Meeting room 18 (VCC)
• Paper: A-Maize-ing: Phytolith Evidence for an Early Introduction of Maize in the Upper Great Lakes Diet
• Co-authors: Caitlin Clark, Susan Kooiman, and William Lovis
• Note – this paper won the Institute for Field Research  (IRF) and SAA Undergraduate award

Autumn Beyer

Saturday –

• Symposium: General Session, Archaeology in the American Midwest II
• Time- 10:30AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 20 (VCC)
• Paper: Power and Purpose: The Role of Animals in Ritual Context at a Mid-Continental Site in the Fourteenth Century
• Co-authors: Terrance Martin and Jodie O’Gorman

Lisa Bright

Saturday –

• Poster Session: North America – California
• Room: East Exhibit Hall B Poster Entrance (VCC)
• Time – 10:30AM – 12:30PM
• Poster: A Different Kind of Poor: A Multi-Method Demographic Analysis of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Historic Cemetery
• Co-author: Joseph Hefner

Sunday –

• Lightning Rounds – Institution for Digital Archaeology Method and Practice Project Reports.
• Time – 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 7 (VCC)
• Role: Discussant

Brian Geyer

Thursday-

• Symposium: Methods and Models for Teaching Digital Archaeology and Heritage
• Time – 8:30 AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 8 (VCC)
• Paper: “LEADR at MSU: A Lab Approach to Digital Cultural Heritage in the Classroom”
• Co-author: Brandon Locke

Dr. Lynne Goldstein:

Thursday –

• Symposium: Archaeological Epistemology in the Digital Age
• Time – 8:00am
• Room: East Meeting Room 17 (VCC)
• Paper: “Thinking Differently? How Digital Engagement, Teaching, and Research Have Influence My Archaeological Knowledge”

Sunday-

• Lightning Rounds – Institution for Digital Archaeology Method and Practice Project Reports.
• Time – 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 7 (VCC)
• Role: Moderator

Susan Kooiman

Thursday –

• Symposium: Some Like It Hot: Analytic Diversity and Complementarity in the Exploration of Past Cooking and Cuisine
• Time – 8:00AM – 11:00 AM
• Room: East Meeting room 18 (VCC)
• Role: Chair
• Paper: Cooking and Cuisine: Culinary Clues and Contexts in the Archaeological Record (8:00 AM)
• Paper: Beer, Porridges, and Feasting in the Gamo Region of Souther Ethiopia (9:15), co-author

Alice Lynn McMichael (LEADR Assistant Director)

Sunday –

• Lightning Rounds – Institution for Digital Archaeology Method and Practice Project Reports.
• Time – 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 7 (VCC)
• Role: Discussant

Jeff Painter

Thursday –

• Symposium: General Session, Archaeology in the American Midwest I
• Time – 3:30PM
• Room:East Meeting Room 4 (VCC)
• Paper: Foodway Variability in the Oneota Tradition: A Pilot Study of Cooking Pots
• Co-author: Jodie O’Gorman

Dr. Jodie O’Gorman

Friday –

• Symposium: Blood in the Waters: Violence in the Mississippian and Late Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands
• Time – 10:45AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 8 (VCC)
• Paper: Life during Wartime: Children, Violence, and Security at Morton Village
• Role: Co-author (Jennifer Bengtson, Jodie O’Gorman, and Amy Michael)

Dr. Heather Walder

Saturday –

• Lightning Rounds: Enduring Culture History: Constructions of Past Communities and Identities in the Twenty-First Century
• Time – 8:00AM – 10:00AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 15 (VCC)
• Role: Moderator & Discussant
• Poster Session: North America, Midwest I
• Time – 2:00PM – 4:00PM
• Room: East Exhibit Hall B Poster Entrance (VCC)
• Poster: Compositional Analysis of Copper-Base Metal Artifacts from Michigan

Dr. Ethan Watrall

Thursday-

• Symposium: Methods and Models for Teaching Digital Archaeology and Heritage
• Time – 8:00am – 11:00 AM
• Room: East Meeting Room 8 (VCC)
• Role: Chair
• Paper: “Building Scholars and Communities of Practice in Digital Heritage and Archaeology” (10:30 AM)

Saturday –

• Forum: Current Challenges in Using 3D Data in Archaeology
• Time – 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
• Room: East Meeting Room 5 (VCC)
• Role: Discussant

See you in Vancouver!

Author: Lisa Bright