APRIL
The Central
Mississippi Valley Archaeological Society Welcomes you to attend a special slide
lecture
Reconstructing Past Cultural Landscapes
Using
Geographic
Information Systems
by
Jami J.
Lockhart
Arkansas Archeological Survey
In this lecture Jami will
present how GIS can be used to reconstruct elements of prehistoric cultural
landscapes at many different scales. He will describe how he defines and
analyzes natural and cultural components of the landscape using digital tools
and data generated from many sources, including Arkansas’ database of
archeological sites and projects, a statewide geographic information system
(GIS), geophysical remote sensing, precision surveying and mapping, ethnographic
and archeological research.
ASU MUSEUM ROOM 157
MONDAY
APRIL 25, 2005
7 to 9 PM
The lecture is
free and open to the public.
For more information please call
Dr. Julie Morrow at 870-972-2071.
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MAY
The Central Mississippi
Valley Archeological Society Welcomes You to Attend a Special Slide Lecture
Effigy Pottery in the
Edwin Curtiss
Collection, 1879-80
by
Dr. John H. House
Station Archeologist,
Arkansas Archeological Survey-UAPB
During the winter of 1879-80, Edwin Curtiss embarked on a journey to
collect antiquities for Harvard’s Peabody Museum. He spent a total of 86 days
along the St. Francis River in northeast Arkansas excavating at the Parkin,
Neeley’s Ferry, Fortune, and Rose sites, among others. The Curtiss collection
at the Peabody Museum includes more than 60 Native American Mississippian period
ceramic effigy vessels. Effigy vessels were fashioned in the shape of life forms
including complete fish, frogs and humans as well as the heads of opossums,
birds, mythological creatures, and humans. Since completing his research on
these ceramic vessels, this presentation marks the first lecture during which
Dr. John House will tell the story of Curtiss’s pioneering archaeological
investigation and show slides of the effigy pots that Curtiss excavated in
Arkansas more than a century ago.
MONDAY MAY 2,
2005
ASU MUSEUM ROOM 157
For more information please call
Dr. Julie Morrow at 870-972-2071
