The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) is proud to be the organizer for the 2014 SEAC meeting. In 2013 we celebrated our 50th anniversary, and we view the 2014 conference in Greenville as the perfect venue to both look back 50 years and to look forward to another equally productive half century of doing archaeology in the state and in the Southeast. The program reflects all of the elements of Southeastern archaeology that we prize at SCIAA: prehistoric and historic archaeology, methods, theory, and public outreach.
Meeting Organizers
Charlie Cobb (cobbcr@mailbox.sc.edu), General Conference
Karen Smith (smithky2@mailbox.sc.edu), Program
Nena Rice (ricen@mailbox.sc.edu), Local Arrangements
SEAC 2014
SCIAA
1321 Pendleton St.
Columbia, SC 29208
Registration and Submissions
Please visit the Conference Registration page to sign up to present and/or register to attend the meeting in Greenville. Presentation guidelines and Vendor registration can also be found there.
Sitter's Service
We will be providing baby sitter services for SEAC and invite you to bring the whole family to enjoy the Greenville experience, which ranges from a city zoo to a children’s museum (see Other Activities below). After the conference program has been issued and you know when your paper/poster/symposium times are, we’ll develop a schedule that will allow you to reserve time slots.
Thursday Evening Reception
Upcountry History Museum, 6-8 pm
http://www.upcountryhistory.org/
540 Buncombe St. (just a short walk from the hotel)
The Museum has excellent permanent displays relating to the history of the South Carolina Upcountry. There are interactive exhibits that include touch screen displays, oral histories, multimedia presentations and replicated buildings. There are tentative plans to have a traveling exhibit related to “Treasure” that will coincide with SEAC. Reception features light appetizers, beer, and cash bar.
Distance to reception: less than half a mile from the hotel, an easy walk (directions included in registration packet). Shuttle transport from the hotel also will be available.
If you are still hungry after the reception, there is a large range of downtown dining spots, spanning fast-food to taverns to trendy and upscale. The hotel is surrounded by many beverage options that include brewpubs, a distillery, and coffee houses.
Friday Special Events
Friday afternoon: 5:30-6:45: SEAC business meeting in the Hotel Ballroom
Friday night: 9 pm – midnight: dance in the Hotel Ballroom
Dance to disco, R&B, rock, and New Wave (and maybe even some recent music to cater to our students) via the musical stylings of the popular Finesse Band.
Saturday Special Events
GUIDED FIELD TRIPS:
1. Textile Heritage Tour in conjunction with the Upcountry History Museum
Tour Coordinator: Don Koonce, Ferncreek Design, Inc., Greenville, SC.
Saturday, November 15, 1:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Assemble in the Hyatt lobby.
Registration is required, group limited to 20, no tour fee.
Greenville, South Carolina was known as the “Textile Capital of the World” by the early 1960s. With some of the nation’s largest textile mill complexes dating from the 1880s through the 1920s, Greenville’s mills eventually attracted more than 40,000 workers to weaving, spinning, and other mill-related jobs. By the 1940s, the “textile crescent” formed a semi-circle of 16 cotton mills and two dye/bleaching/processing mills all located within three miles of Main Street. The era of Greenville’s textile industry was over by the mid-1970s, but many of the mill buildings remain, and although most of the mills are currently abandoned, some are being redeveloped for new uses.
Join noted local historian, producer, and videographer, Don Koonce for an introductory lecture followed by a driving tour that covers 12 mill towns in the “textile crescent.” You’ll never see Greenville the same way after you explore the intriguing stories of these mills, their owners, and the villages that surrounded them.
2. Archaeology Field Day at Croft Park, one mile from the hotel at 116 Croft St. The program by the Archaeological Society of South Carolina includes flintknapping, re-enactors, displays, craftworking, traditional dance. 9 am – 5 pm Cost: Free. If you take the trolley north to the end of the line at the intersection of Main and Earle Streets and disembark there, Croft Park is two blocks to the northwest.
3. On your own. Greenville has plenty of diverse entertainment for the entire family, much of it within walking distance or a short drive from the hotel. Here are our recommendations for just a few of the many possibilities:
• The Childrens’ Museum (www.tcmgreenvillesc.org). At 80,000 square feet, this is the 7th largest children's museum in the country. The Museum is only a few blocks from the hotel and features 19 interactive exhibit galleries. 300 College St.
• The Greenville County Museum of Art (www.gcma.org). Also a few blocks from the hotel, the Museum of Art has an impressively wide collection of modern art. Among its many holdings, it has the world’s largest collection of watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, as well as a major body of work by Jasper Johns. 420 College St.
• Greenville Zoo (www.greenvillezoo.com). This popular zoo is located at 150 Cleveland Park Drive, about 1.25 miles from the hotel. It is within Cleveland Park, a popular spot for hiking.
• Falls Park on the Reedy (www.fallspark.com). One of the centerpieces of downtown Greenville. The park consists of frontage on both sides of the Reedy River and features a waterfall, a great trail system, and a stunning pedestrian bridge over the river. Only about ½ mile south of the hotel. Easily walkable and also accessible by city trolley.
SATURDAY EVENING DINNER, 6-9 PM
Saturday evening we’ll have a dinner at the hotel. For those wanting a last taste of Carolina cuisine, the meal will feature a Low Country boil, a regional coastal specialty consisting of clams, shrimp, andouille, corn on the cob, and potatoes. Dinner will also include a salad, skillet bronzed chicken, vegetables, and dessert. Vegetarian alternatives available. Cost $36. Dinner will be accompanied by live bluegrass.
Great Spirits of SEAC will be revived this year. The Great Spirits competition will be held on Saturday evening in conjunction with the SEAC dinner. Samples of contributed spirits will be provided for tasting and members can vote for their favorite brew. Please contact Christopher Moore (cmoore@srarp.org) if you would like to participate by contributing a few bottles of your finest homebrew (e.g., wine, beer, mead).
Registration is now OPEN!
ON-SITE REGISTRATION fees at the meeting ARE $10 more than the cost listed in each category below.
- Regular member $90
- Student member $60
- Non-member $105
- Student non-member $70
Registrants (who are not presenting)
Please complete the form below. If you are not a 2014 SEAC member, please see the Membership page for instructions on how to join/renew.
If you would like to attend but do not plan to present or register as a member, use the link below to register for the meeting as a non-member at the higher rate. If you would like become a member before registering, you may do so from the Membership page.
Number and Nature of Roles
No individual may have more than three participant roles (presenter, chair, moderator, panelist, or discussant) during the Annual Meeting, nor may s/he be a presenter or chair more than once. No exceptions. In our implementation of the roles rules and for formal submissions, we take first authors to be presenters in posters and papers. First authors/presenters must also be members in SEAC to submit presentations. Second and subsequent authorship roles are unlimited and these roles do not require membership in SEAC.
Presentation Guidelines
Paper presentations are 20 minutes maximum. For visuals with your oral presentation, organize a PowerPoint file to provide to your session/symposium chair to load on his/her laptop well ahead of time. Although projectors are covered by our conference budget, other forms of audiovisual equipment are quite expensive and are not normally provided. If presenters require such equipment they may be asked to bear the cost. Please contact the conference organizers beforehand about any special audiovisual needs, and no later than August 15, 2014.
Symposium and session chairs must supply a laptop computer loaded with Microsoft Office PowerPoint software and obtain participants’ PowerPoint programs well in advance of the schedule session time. YOUR LAPTOP MUST HAVE A VGA CONNECTOR; if you have a MAC, make sure you have an appropriate adapter for a VGA connector.
Posters, whether individual or as part of a symposium, should be sized to fit on a display that measures 8 ft horizontally and 4 ft vertically. Mounting supplies are not provided; presenters need to bring their own pushpins for their displays.
Student Participation and Paper Competition
Students are encouraged to attend and participate in the annual meeting in several ways. They can enter the SEAC 2014 Student Paper Competition, with prizes that are among the richest in the field. First place wins a large pile of publications and other items whose total value is several thousand dollars. Second-place prize is a lifetime SEAC membership and back issues of the SEAC journal, Southeastern Archaeology. All student entries must be sent in their final form to Competition Chair Dr. Jeff Mitchem jmitchem1@yahoo.com by October 10, 2014. All entries must be included in the 2014 meeting program.
A student reception will take place Thursday afternoon; students from different schools can meet and interact with peers from other places and with possible employers/donors who support student activity. Free beer and snacks for students and donors.
Book Room Vendors
Due to high demand for vendor tables at this year's meeting, the book room is now completely occupied. The hotel has no additional rooms for space, and for safety reasons we can add no more tables to the current room. We regret that table reservations will no longer be taken.
Please note that Monday, Nov. 10, is the earliest day that books and other materials can be shipped to the hotel. If you do ship materials, the hotel requests that you provide the name of a pick-up person beforehand. If you have any questions about these arrangements, please contact Kristy Rushing at kristy.rushing@hyatt.com.
