Calendar of Events

The Chapter meeting location has changed. It now meets at the Severna Park Branch of the Anne Arundel County Public Library, 45 McKinsey Road, Severna Park, MD 21146 (410-222-6290).
We meet in the Conference Room at 7:00pm. Click here for a map.

February 16, 2010 (Tuesday at 7:00pm), AACAS Chapter Meeting:
Speaker:  Mechelle Kerns, AACAS president, will discuss the Legg’s Dependence (18QU996) excavations from November 2009 on Kent Island.

March 13, 2010 (Saturday, 9:00am - 3:30pm), Workshop in Archeology:
Event:  Workshop in Maryland Archeology
Sponsor:  Maryland Historical Trust (MHT)
Location:  People's Resource Center, 100 Community Place, Crownsville, MD 21032
Note:   This year's program includes a keynote presentation by Tom Horsley, who recently completed some remote sensing work at the Barton Site. The CAT Workshop will be Historic Overview. Click here for more details.

April 9, 2010 (Friday at 7:00pm), College of Southern Maryland’s Friday Night Lecture Series:
Speaker:  Wayne Clark, Tri-County Council Executive Director.
Lecture:  In Search of the Algonquian-Speaking Indians of the Patuxent River Valley.
Sponsor:  College of Southern Maryland (CSM)
Location:  CSM, Prince Frederick Campus, Room 119, 115 J.W. Williams Road, Prince Frederick, MD
Note:  CSM’s Friday Night Lecture Series presents Tri-County Council Executive Director Wayne Clark to discuss archaeological and historical evidence discovered about the Algonquian-speaking Native Americans of the Patuxent River Valley including social customs and observations made by European settlers of the time. Free. 301-934-7703, 240-725-5499, 443-550-6199, 301-870-2309, Ext. 7703.
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April 10, 2010 (Saturday), Spring Symposium:
Event:  Spring Symposium
Sponsors:  MHT and Archeological Society of Maryland, Inc. (ASM)
Note:  The Spring Symposium is coming up fast. The main topic will be the archaic period. More details will be posted soon on ASM and MHT websites.

April 17, 2010 (Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm), Discovering Archeology:
Event:  Discovering Archeology
Sponsor:  Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum
Location:  10515 Mackall Road, St. Leonard, MD
Note:  Discover the where, what, and how of archaeology. Tour the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory. Learn about archaeology through educational walks, activities, and demonstrations. For more information call 410-586-8501, or email jppm@mdp.state.md.us.

April 20, 2010 (Tuesday at 7:00pm), AACAS Chapter Meeting:
Speaker:  Stephen Israel
Letcure:  The Rockdale Road Rockshelter: A Late Woodland Prehistoric Site 18BA70, in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Note:  The Rockdale Road Rockshelter Investigation was undertaken as a Central Chapter project in 2007.

May 14-24, 2010, ASM Field Session 2010:
Event:  ASM Field Session 2010
Sponsors: ASM and MHT
Location:   Jefferson-Patterson Park and Museum, 10515 Mackall Road, St. Leonard, MD
Note:  The ASM Board of Trustees and MHT Staff have chosen Jefferson-Patterson Park and Museum as the site of the 2010 Field Session. Current plans are to hold the session from 14 to 24 May, 2010. In addition to excavation of an 18th Century Plantation site, there will be exceptional opportunities to do lab work at the Maryland Archeological Conservancy (MAC) Lab as well as participate in CAT workshops and other lectures. More details will be posted soon on the ASM website.

June 15, 2010 (Tuesday at 7:00pm), AACAS Chapter Meeting:
Speaker:   To Be Announced

September 21, 2010 (Tuesday at 7:00pm), AACAS Chapter Meeting:
Speaker:   Rod Cofield, Director of Interpretation and Museum Programs at Historic London Town & Gardens in Edgewater, MD
Lecture:  "To a bole of lemonade for your wife..." - Female Patrons and the Peons who Served Them.
Note:  This presentation will examine the oft-overlooked ways by which women, as patrons and laborers, participated in colonial-era public houses.

November 16, 2010 (Tuesday at 7:00pm), AACAS Chapter Meeting:
Speaker:   To Be Announced