Northeastern Section - 44th Annual Meeting (22–24 March 2009)
Session No. 5 Sunday, 22 March 2009
8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Holiday Inn By the Bay: Connecticut Room

T5. Geoarchaeology: Sites, Substrate, Sources, and Context I

Alice R. Kelley and Allen M. Gontz, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:30 AM Introduction & Remarks by Arthur Spiess, Maine State Archaeologist
5-18:50 AM FORGOTTEN LANDSCAPES - GEOPHYSICAL-BASED RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE NORTHERN DECLIVITY DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLE OF BUNKERS HILL, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: GONTZ, Allen M.1, ANDERSON, Christopher2, BERKLAND, Ellen P.3, GOLDSTEIN, Erik4, MAIO, Christopher V.1, and WAGENKNECHT, Ekatherina K.1, (1) Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts - Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, allen.gontz@umb.edu, (2) 22 Allston St, Charlestown, MA 02129, (3) Environment, City of Boston, 1 City Hall Plaza, Suite 805, Boston, MA 02201, (4) The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, PO Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187
5-29:10 AM EXPLORING HARVARD'S PAST: GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR AND THE HISTORY OF THE USE OF HARVARD YARD: KOONS, Michele L., Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge 02138, mkoons@fas.harvard.edu
5-39:30 AM ANALYSIS OF MATERIALS FOUND IN CERAMIC PERIOD ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES FROM SOUTHWEST COASTAL MAINE: POLLOCK, Stephen G.1, HAMILTON, Nathan D.2, BRACK, Ingrid3, and GRIFFIN, MaryAnn1, (1) Geosciences, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME 04038, pollock@usm.maine.edu, (2) Geography and Antropology, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME 04038, (3) Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AB, United Kingdom
 9:50 AM Discussion
 10:00 AM Break
5-410:20 AM A DROWNED, FORMERLY INHABITED BAY/LAKE SHORELINE OFF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, MAINE: KELLEY, Joseph T., Earth Science Department, University Of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5790, jtkelley@maine.edu, CLAESSON, Stefan H., Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, BELKNAP, Daniel F., Earth Sciences, University of Maine, 117 Bryand Global Sciences Building, Orono, ME 04469, BARNHARDT, Walter, U.S. Geological Survey, 384 Woods Hole Rd, Woods Hole, MA 02543, and BAKER, Alan L., Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
5-510:40 AM GEOCHEMISTRY AND SEASONALITY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MERCENARIA MERCENARIA SHELLS: BRACK, Ingrid B., Gorham, ME 04038, lap07ib@reading.ac.uk
5-611:00 AM COASTAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN LATE PRECERAMIC PERU: SANDWEISS, Daniel H., Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, dan.sandweiss@umit.maine.edu
5-711:20 AM AN EARLY MONUMENTAL SITE AT LOS MORTEROS, PERU REVEALED BY GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR: KELLEY, Alice R., Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Bryand Global Science Center, Orono, ME 04469, akelley@maine.edu, SANDWEISS, Daniel H., Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, KELLEY, Joseph T., Earth Science Department and Climate Change Institute, University Of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5790, BELKNAP, Daniel F., Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, RADEMAKER, Kurt, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, 5773 South Stevens Hall, Orono, ME 04469, and REID, David, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469
5-811:40 AM GEOARCHAEOLOGY, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, AND THE SEARCH FOR PALEOINDIAN SITES IN THE HIGH ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU: RADEMAKER, Kurt, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, 5773 South Stevens Hall, Orono, ME 04469, kurt.rademaker@umit.maine.edu, BROMLEY, Gordon, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Bryand Global Sciences Center, Orono, ME 04469, and REID, David, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469

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