90th Annual Meeting, October 26-29, 2023, Ocean City, Maryland

Location

Holiday Inn Oceanfront
(410) 524-1600
6600 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD 21842

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Hotel Rates

$69.00 Wed & Thurs + tax per night.
$84.00 Fri & Sat + tax per night.

Tours: Thursday, October 26, 2023, 9 AM - 5 PM

Zwaanendeal Museum

The Archaeological Society of Delaware (ASD) offers tours of the Zwannendael Museum in Lewes, DE, to view the famous HMS Shipwreck DeBraak as well as the Nanticoke Indian Museum, in Millsboro, DE. We will be carpooling to these locations.

His Majesty’s Sloop Debraak 1798 Shipwreck exhibit.
Admission $10 per person.

We plan lunch at the Crooked Hammock Restaurant in Lewes. Lunch is on your own.

Nanticoke Indian Museum Admission

Thereafter, we will drive to the Nanticoke Indian Museum, to learn their past, cultural history and endeavors to expand and share their culture, returning to Ocean City by 5:00 pm. $3 per person.

  2023 ESAF Tour Brochure

Annual Meeting Resources

•  ESAF 2023 Preliminary Program
•  ESAF Zoom Recording Instructions
•  Student Paper Competition

Register for Conference

•   2023 Annual Meeting Registration Form
•   2023 Online Registration & Payment Form
•  Annual Meeting Sponsorship Form - Pay Online

Annual Banquet Keynote Speaker

Revisiting Portobago: A Mid- to Late 17th Century Trading Post on the Rappahannock River in Virginia

The Native town of Portobago (1680-1705), located at the head of seagoing navigation in the Rappahannock River, sat at the intersection of Atlantic markets to the east and the Mississippian shatter zone to the west and south. Previously viewed through a localized lens, after reanalysis, Portobago emerges as a key space for interpreting regional Indigenous responses to colonial expansion. A coalescence of Native communities from Maryland and Virginia, Portobago played a critical but virtually undocumented role at the end of the 17th century in the shaping of Virginia’s Atlantic World economy, including the movement of guns, Indigenous slaves, and animal skins between Europe and the Southeastern US. As settlers manipulated traditional practices of Indigenous warfare to serve European consumer desires, Indigenous communities and individuals forged local strategies for survival through cooperation and resistance. These strategies became evident by taking a global view of the riverine corridors along which this expansion occurred. The findings from Portobago reveal both the importance of archaeological evidence in the writing of early American history and the value of revisiting legacy collections.

Julia A. King has 30 years experience studying, teaching, and writing about historical archaeology and Chesapeake history and culture. Dr. King has received six major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has held fellowships with Dumbarton Oaks, the Virginia Historical Society, Winterthur Museum, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. From 2003 until 2011, King served as an Expert Member on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a Federal agency that advises the president and Congress on matters of national historic preservation policy. In 2018, the Society for Historical Archaeology presented King with the J.C. Harrington Award in recognition of her scholarly contributions to the discipline. She has also received awards from the Register for Professional Archaeologists and the Archaeological Society of Virginia.

King's book, Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland, received a Book Award from the American Association of State and Local History in 2013. Her most recent publication, in collaboration with Scott M. Strickland and Rappahannock Chief Anne Richardson, "Rappahannock Oral Tradition, John Smith’s Map of Virginia, and Political Authority in the Algonquian Chesapeake," appeared in the January issue of William and Mary Quarterly. Her current research focus includes Indigenous history and colonialism in the Chesapeake region.

Annual Meeting

Proposals for organized thematic sessions are welcome. Individual papers will be placed in general sessions. Posters will be centralized with a designated presentation session.

Primary authors must be members of ESAF. One paper per primary author. There is no limit on the number of co-authorships. Primary author and presenter must register for the meeting by August 25, 2023.

Student participation scholarships are available. Student authors may complete for The Student Paper Prize.

 Student Paper Competition

Format

The Annual Meeting will be a hybrid format allowing both in-person and remote presentation and attendance over Zoom. Remote presentations will be pre-recorded. In-person papers will be presented live.

Deadlines

Abstract Submissions, Registration Fees, and Membership Dues for Presenters Due:
September 15, 2023

Registration for Non-Presenters
October 20, 2023

Conference Fees (in US Dollars)
Registration: $45
Student Registration $20

Saturday Banquet
(Italian Buffet w/ vegetarian options): $55 per person

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General Presentation Guidelines

• Presenter(s) must be individual members of ESAF for 2021.
• Registration fees and membership dues for ALL presenters are due by September 10, 2023. Membership dues and conference registration may be paid via PayPal. An individual can be the primary author on only one paper or poster, but may be a co-author on other papers or posters. Workshop participants may also present papers.
• In addition to the title and abstract (150 words or fewer), provide name, affiliation, address, phone, and email address for each presenter. Please include audio-visual requirements. Thematic session chairs should identify participants.
• The first name listed as a paper's author is considered to be the presenter.

Annual Meeting Procedures

•  2023 ESAF Call for Papers
•  Annual Meeting Procedures
•  Student Paper Competition