2015 Annual Fall Meeting

On Saturday October 24 the Central Chapter of ASM hosted the 2015  Archeological Society of Maryland Annual Fall Meeting at Oregon Ridge Nature Center in Cockeysville, MD.  ASM holds its  annual Business Meeting at his meeting.  Carol provided a brief report on activites of CCASM, the Charles County Chapter.  Three members of CCASM were able to attend the meeting.

The Central Chapter put together an interesting set of talks.  The topics and speakers are shown below.  One discussion of note was not on the agenda,  and it didn't even relate to Maryland archaeology.  After her talk on Biggs Ford. Becca Peixotto answered numerous questions about her experience in a South African cave.  Becca was one of the six women researchers that retrieved fossils of H. naledi, a new human species, from the cave. 

• Threatened Heritage: Five Years of Response to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Erosion on Archeological Sites in Anne Arundel County  [Frederick M. Stiner Memorial Lecture]
  Stephanie Sperling
• Dental Health of Delmarva Adena-Hopewell Native Americans of Pig Point Site (18AN50) in Lothian, Maryland
  
  Erin Edwards 
• An Introduction: Applied GIS for Archeologists
  
  Bill Dickinson Jr
• Status report on the 2013, 2014 and 2015 ASM Field Sessions at the Biggs Ford Site: Where we are in the analysis process
  
   Becca Peixotto (introduced by Dr. Charlie Hall)
•  Recent Archaeological Investigation of the Concord Historic Site in Capitol Heights in Prince George’s County
  
  Jeanne Ward
• Archeological and Geophysical Analysis of an 18th through 20th Century Landscape in Prince George’s County
  
  Matthew D. Cochran (co-authoried with Donald K. Creveling)
• Kirby Farm Site: A Middle and Late Woodland Periods Hunting Quarter in Maryland’s Interior Piedmont Province
  Wayne Clark with introduction to talk by Stephen Israel

CCASM is a chapter of ASM.