This week’s featured photo is from Tiffany Brunson, an anthropology graduate student at the University of Idaho. The photo is of a series of lead disks that she posted on the HistArch list serve last week, which were found at Fort Spokane : other archaeologists have suggested that they may be flattened bullets either waiting to be recast or, the most popular response, is that they are flattened bullets being used as gaming tokens. If you have any ideas, let us know in the comments!
Headlines
A century old plantation and a possible African American cemetery are on land recently purchased in Danville, Virginia.
The Virginia Historical Society is featured on CNN for their recently launched database of enslaved Africans in historical records.
Archaeologists in York are developing an exhibit about their project on homelessness.
The Florida Public Archaeology Network has been working with communities to restore cemeteries.
Manuscript Calls
The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter is looking for submissions for its next release.
Conferences
Winterthur Ceramics Conference is being held from April 26-27th.
The Visiting Scholar Conference is being held at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with this year’s topic on: The Archaeology of Slavery: Toward a Comparative Global Framework. It is being held from March 30-31st.
To the Blogs!
Mount Vernon has a nice piece about the wine bottle glass assemblage discovered in their midden.
John R. Roby (@JohnRRoby) has launched a new historical archaeology blog called “Digs and Docs”. Add him to your RSS Feed!
Mick Morrison (@MickMorrison) returns from a blogging hiatus with a description of a 20th century site Presbyterian Mission Site in Weipa, Australia.
There are a couple sitings of papers being presented at this year’s SHA conference in Baltimore on various social media:
Mandy Raslow (@MrshlltwnMauler) and Heather Cowen Cruz have their paper “Excavating with Kids at the Farwell House, Storrs, CT” available on academia.edu, and Terry P. Brock (@brockter…also author of this post) has made his presentation “Place, Space, and the Process of Emancipation” available on his blog.
Have you put your presentation up on the web? Please let us know, we’d love to share it!
Photo: 
All rights reserved by Tiffany.Brunson Used with permission from photographer.
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