2023 ESAF Conference

The Eastern States Archeological Federation (ESAF) held its 2023 Conference at Ocean City, MD Oct 27-29.  ESAF is an organization of state archeological societies representing much of the Eastern United States and Canada, and this was the year for the Archaeological Society of Maryland (ASM) and the Archaeological Society of Delaware (ASD) to co-host.

Presidents of ASD and ASM, the keynote speaker,
and President of ESAF. 
Sorry don't know the other ESAF conference helper

Five CCASM members (Mary, Gary, Pat, Carol, and Jim) attended the conference, and on the last day we all agreed we were glad we came.  There were a number of really interesting talks.  Rather that summarizing the various talk, here is a link to the final program - https://esaf-archeology.org/esaf-2023-final-program.pdf   

At the Saturday night banquet Dr. Julia King was the keynote speaker.  Her  talk was titled "Revisiting Portobago: A Mid- to Late 17th Century Trading Post on the Rappahannock River in Virginia".

Some of us at the dinner

Four of the five CCASM attendees
(although one appears to be hiding)

On Oct 26 before the conference started there was also a special tour that was limited to twenty people with one lucky CCASM member being able to take the tour.  It included a visit to the Zwaanendeal Museum with a behind the scenes look at the His Majesty’s Sloop Debraak 1798 Shipwreck exhibit.  The tour also included a visit to the Nanticoke Indian Museum.

Debraak Shipwreck (~80')

FYI, the archaeological societies from the following states/provinces are members of ESAF- Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Maine, Massaschusetts, New Brunswick (Canada), New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

CCASM is a chapter of the Archeological Society of Maryland.

Thanks to Pat for the photo of all the presidents and the speaker.