Dr. George Holley of Minnesota State University Moorhead will present a lecture concerning the recent archaeological work at the Saloon Row site in downtown Moorhead.

Lina Belar of the Wadena County Historical Society will provide an overview of reports that have been written about Fur Trade Era excavations in Wadena County and explain why they are important to our knowledge of the past.

Tom Sanders will discuss the results of this summer’s survey on the Red Rock Ridge by the Red Rock Ridge Research Group. The survey has produced new insights into Indigenous people’s activities on the Ridge.

Dr. H. Kory Cooper from Purdue University's Department of Anthropology will speak on ancient copper metallurgy in Alaska and Canada.

Dr. David Landon, Associate Director, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at UMass Boston, presents the findings from multi-year excavations in downtown Plymouth. This lecture includes the recent discoveries from a 17th-century English colonial house site on historic Burial Hill. Seating and light refreshments at 6:30pm, lecture begins at 7pm.

Presentation by Dick Carlson on training and applying photogrammetry technology in archaeology.

The bow and arrow is a technology very closely associated with the popular stereotype of peoples native to this country. Few people realize that bows and arrows were virtually non-existent in the Americas for more than 10,000 years of prehistory. When these weapons did finally break into use, they spread like wildfire and became ubiquitous […]

In 1650, Thomas Doughty, an illiterate Scottish foot solder, was captured at the Battle of Dunbar. He was then transported to Massachusetts and sold as forced labor. He was one of 420 Scottish prisoners who shared this fate. Author Dr. Carol Gardner will share how recent archaeological discoveries at Durham Cathedral in England have contributed […]

CEO and President of the Coastal Discovery Museum, Rex Garniewicz, will share the science behind historic brews from ancient Mesopotamia, China, Egypt, and the jungles of the Amazon. Reservations are required.

Dr. David Landon shares the latest research from a multi-year study of Plymouth Colony sites conducted by UMass Boston archaeologists. Learn about this summer's exciting discoveries of Plymouth's 17th-century beginnings. Join tour group at the very top of the Hill. Launched independently in 2011 by the Plymouth Antiquarian Society, the Burial Hill series is now […]

Mary Leakey was known as the "cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking" British archaeologist and anthropologist who excavated at various sites in East Africa, along with her husband Louis. One of her most famous excavations at Laetoli, Tanzania uncovered the famous trail of fossil hominid footprints which had been left in volcanic ash some 3.6 million years ago.