Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense," at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This symposium brings together former students and colleagues of Judith Bense from across academic institutions, cultural resource management, and public archaeology. With a career starting in a “walk-on” role as a contract archaeologist and anthropology professor at the University of West Florida through her time as university president Bense’s work covers many topics and time periods. Dr. Bense has used the field in her backyard of Pensacola to teach archaeological lessons ranging from public speaking and community engagement to politics, ethics, and contract work. While these papers feature current research in a range of areas and disciplines, they all reflect lessons learned through the lens of Benseian archaeology.

Other Keywords
Maps • Education • Museum • Archaeology • Photogrammetry • Urban Archaeology • Public Archaeology • Gis • Colonial • Spanish

Geographic Keywords
Southeastern United States • Southeast • Florida

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  • 40 Years of Hawkshaw and Public Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Minette.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology has been a Pensacola staple since Dr. Judith Bense started engaging the public with the history in their backyards. She laid the foundation for public archaeology in the city, notably through the Hawkshaw Project and the Florida Public Archaeology Network. In addition to involving local volunteers in the...

  • Archaeology for Everyone: Bensian Boldness and the Florida Public Archaeology Network (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Furlong Minkoff. Della Scott-Ireton.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bensian archaeology is the ability to see an opportunity and make the most of it. Forty years ago, at the Hawkshaw site in Pensacola, Dr. Judy Bense recognized that public archaeology can serve both the community and her research. Twenty years ago, she realized she could take her vision of public archaeology across the...

  • Making the Pieces Fit - Historic Maps and the Colonial Archaeology of Downtown Pensacola, Florida (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A Melcher. April A Holmes. Rockie L Jarvis.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The urban nature of Pensacola's colonial archaeology means we get tiny fragments of the archaeology a piece at a time. Beginning in the early 1990s Dr. Bense realized the importance of a single, unified archaeological grid across Pensacola and found the people and tools necessary to help implement it. Using this grid, more...

  • "That And 50 Cents Will Get You A Cup Of Coffee" Early Lessons And How We Applied The Benseian Way To Our Archaeological Development (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David E. Breetzke. Margo S. Stringfield.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper is the culmination of more than 30 years of living under the cope of Bense. Every grad student came into the archaeology program at UWF with their own vision of how archaeology should be done. We all left with a deeper respect for the trade by the way we were taught, lead and guided through the web of...

  • You CAN Make a Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: Persistence in Southeastern Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Janet R. Lloyd. Deborah Mullins. Krista Eschbach. Sarah E. Price.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study of historically documented and undocumented intercommunity interaction between eighteenth century Spanish, French, and Native American settlements in Spanish Pensacola and French Mobile was a key focus of investigations conducted by University of West Florida (UWF) archaeologists under the direction...