September 20, 2025

2025 ASM Fall Meeting in Charles County

Come join at the 2025 ASM Fall Meeting hosted by Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc on Saturday October 12 at the Maryland Veterans Museum in Newburg, MD.   Admission is free.

You can learn what the Archeological Society on Maryland has been doing throughout Maryland.  You can also hear some of the archaeology that has been going on in Charles County - identifying an early Native American site, investigating a seventeenth century Colonial site, and learning about an early twentieth century African American community.  You will also get a chance to hear how archaeology has changed over the past forty-seven years and to participate in a discussion on ethics and avocational archaeology.   

Archeological Society of Maryland Annual Fall Meeting
Sponsored by the Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc

Saturday October 18 (9am-3:30 pm)
Maryland Veterans Museum
11000 Crain Highway
Newburg, MD

Click for program and talk details 

The agenda for the meeting is

  •   8:30     Registration and Refreshments
  •   9:00     ASM Annual Business Meeting 

  • 10:20     Break
  • 10:30     2025 Frederick M Stiner Memorial Address
        The Plantation of Michael Swift on the Patuxent River: 
        Ground-truthing the Teague’s Point Site, Charles County, Maryland
        Dr. Matthew D. McKnight, Chief Archaeologist for Maryland Historical Trust

  • 11:15     ASM Ethics and Conduct in Action
        Moderator: Valerie Hall, ASM President
        Panelists: Brent Chippendale, Jim Gibb, and Julia Berg
        ACM Ethics Committee Members 

  • 12:00     Lunch Break (bring your own lunch)

  •  1:00      Westwood: An Ancient Native American Site on the Banks of a Relict Creek
         Jim Gibb, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  •  1:45      From Slave Labor to Free Labor: 
        The Archaeology of Post-Emancipation Charles County
         Julia A King, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  •  2:30      Break
  •  2:40      An Archaeological Retrospective: A View From 47 years in the Trenches
        Esther Doyle Read, Charles County Archaeologist

  •  3:25      Closing Remarks     
Cost:  Free for all

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