Annual Meeting Presentation Schedule


Saturday, September 26, 2026

Morning

8:30a    Welcome & Announcements – Steve Longacre, President

8:35       Michelle Rathgaber and Sarah Shepherd– TACLing the Curation Crisis: Lessons Learned from a Curation-based Field School

8:55       Sophie Vogle – Addressing the Alexander (3CN117) Collection

9:15       Leanda Gavin – It’s a Process: Inventorying and Curating the Zebree Collection

9:35       10 minute break

9:45       Gillian Bjornen and Jay Gray – Findings of an Archeological Survey Within the City of Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas

10:05    Paige Ford – Plazas, Pits, and Posts: Preliminary Findings of the 2026 AAS Training Program at Plum Bayou Mounds (3LN42)

10:25    Jim Rees – An Examination of the Precontact Roots of Native American Drumming Traditions in the Southeastern United States

10:45    Woods Site Seekers Robotics Team – Can a Robot Help Archaeologists Dig? Meet      ARCH.I.E.!

11:05    Business Meeting

11:50    Lunch on your own

Afternoon

1:05p    Carl Williford – Mound Centers and the Materialization of Community in the Arkansas Ozarks

1:25       Mary Beth Trubitt – Why Palisades?

1:45       Matthew Rooney et al. – Foodways of Ayays: Interpreting Ecofacts from the Sarassa Lake       Site.

2:05       Ashley Hansen and Anthony Clay Newton – Exploration of Non-Novaculite Toolstone Quarries in the Ouachita Mountains

2:25       10 Minute Break

2:35       Robert J. Scott – Procurement, Distribution, and Consumption of Mill Creek Chert in the Parkin/St. Francis Basin Sub-Area of Northeast Arkansas, ca. AD 1250 to 1450

2:55       Jason R. Kennedy, Juliet E. Morrow, Sarah D. Stuckey – Investigations into Historic     Occupations at the Greenbrier (3IN1)

3:15       Juliet E. Morrow, Tim Mulvihill, Sarah Stuckey – Future Exploration of the Greenbrier Site, A 16th Century Mississippian Town

3:35       Drawing for ARF Raffle and Bidding on the Silent Auction

3:45       End of ARF Silent Auction

4:15       BOA Meeting- Courtyard by Marriott Marshals Room

5:00       Chapter Leadership Meeting- Courtyard by Marriott Marshals Room

6:00       Site Stewardship Meeting- Courtyard by Marriott Marshals Room