2025 ASM Fall Meeting in Charles County

2025 ASM Field Session 
at Teagues Point

Come to the 2025 ASM Fall Meeting hosted by Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc on Saturday October 18 at the Maryland Veterans Museum in Newburg, MD.

You can 
* learn what the Archeological Society of Maryland has been doing throughout Maryland this past year
 
* hear about some of the archaeology that has been going on in Charles County
    - identifying ancient Native American sites
    - investigating a seventeenth century Colonial site
    - learning about an early twentieth century African American community.
 
* hear how archaeology has changed over the past forty-seven years

* participate in a discussion on ethics and avocational archaeology.   

Admission is free. 

Click for program and talk details 

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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

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