AGES faculty and students presented recent research at the Society for Historical Archaeology and the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology annual meetings in Detroit.
Abdul Jones and James Duke, both students in the Applied Archaeology MA program, presented their thesis research. Duke presented “The John ‘Jack’ House: Excavating the African Diaspora in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.” His poster summarized his work to explore the life of one of Gettysburg’s influential African American residents. Jones presented the talk “Brown’s Farm: An Archaeological Investigation of an African American Farmstead in Cambria County, Pennsylvania,” discussing his excavation and oral history work, part of the larger Untold Stories of Western Pennsylvania Parks and Forests project.
Ben Ford chaired the session “Underwater Archaeology in the Great Lakes and Beyond” that included his paper “Lake Erie Submerged Landscape Survey, 2024 and 2025 Results.” Co-authored with Jessi Halligan, Trevor Gittelhough, and Nicholas Bently, all of Texas A&M University, this paper presented findings related to the search for human habitation on the floor of Lake Erie, dating to when the lake was much lower. This work will continue as a field school this summer. Ford also completed his final year as the SHA co-publications editor and board member at this meeting.