2013 ASM Spring Symposium

ASM held its Annual Spring Symposium on Saturday April 13 in the new Health Sciences Lecture Hall at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland.

The topic was "At Home or Away: A Showcase of Maryland Archeologists", and talks included

• After the Burning and Before the Banner: The Battle of Caulk's Field.
  Dr. Julie M. Schablitsky (Maryland State Highway Administration)


•  Life at a 14,000 Years Old Pre-Agricultural Settlement in Mount Carmel, Israel.
  Dr. Reuven Yeshurun (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution; Adjunct Researcher, University of Haifa)


• Excavations in Iceland
  Dr. George Hambrecht (University of Maryland, College Park)


• Smithsonian Citizen Science Program in Archaeology: Erosion and Sedimentation at the 19th- Century Sellman’s Connection Site
  Sarah A. Grady (University of Maryland, class of 2011)


• The Archaeology of African American Landowning in Early 20th Century Maryland.
  Dr. Matthew Palus (Senior Archaeologist, The Ottery Group Inc.)


• Identifying ‘Arte Mc Baron’s chief house his hould’: combining history and archeology in Ireland.
  Dr. Jerry Casway (Chair of Social Sciences, Howard Community College)


• Interpreting the Archeological Survey of Bluefields Bay, Jamaica.
  Benjamin Siegel (New Atlantic Archaeology)

CCASM is a chapter of ASM.