2026 ASM Spring Symposium

The Archeological Society of Maryland, Inc. 61st Spring Symposium

Saturday April 18  (9:00am-4:00pm)

Maryland Historical Trust, 100 Community Place, Crownsville, MD

• 8:30    Registration and Coffee 
• 9:00    Welcome and Introduction
  
  
•  9:15    The Richard E. Stearns Memorial Lecture
  Transforming Southern Maryland Landforms: 40 years of Archaeological Observations
  James G Gibb
  
  
• 10:00   Trowels to Teaching: A Case Study in Embedding Archaeology Education in Applied
  Archaeology Programs 
  Katherine Sterner
  
  
• 10:40
  Coffee Break and Silent Auction viewing
    
  
• 11:00  The Patawomeck Frontier: Migration and Culture Change along Goose River
  John Henshaw
  
  
• 11:45-1:00 
  Lunch - bring a bag lunch, mingle with friends and visit the Silent Auction
  
  
• 1:00   The Iris McGillivray Memorial Lecture
  
  The Past Present and Future of Historic Blandair: Saving an Enslaved Landscape
   Kelly Palich
  
  
• 1:45   ASM Student Spotlight
  Subsistence, Seasonality, and Settlement Patterns in the Late Woodland Chesapeake: Insights
  from a Shell Midden Outside Baltimore
  Reagan Britt
  
  
• 2:30   Underwater Archaeology and the Maryland Maritime Archaeology Program”
  Troy Nowak
  
  
• 3:10
  
  
• 3:30
  Silent Auction results and banter
  
For complete program including talk abstracts -- Symposium Program

Free Admission