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“What Lies Beneath the Surface: Current Research at Poverty Point WHS” Presentation

Bossier Parish Libraries Central Library 2206 Beckett St, Bossier City, LA

Monday, October 17, 6-7:30pm $ = Free Family friendly Dr. Diana Greenlee, Station Archaeologist at Poverty Point World Heritage Site, will give a presentation at 6:30pm entitled "What Lies Beneath the Surface: Current Research at Poverty Point WHS" in the History Center Meeting Room. To register, visit: https://www.bossierlibrary.org/event/poverty-point-world-heritage-site-dr-diana-greenlee

Trivia w/ Keez at Crying Eagle Brewing

Crying Eagle Brewing Company 1165 E McNeese St, Lake Charles, LA

Trivia w/ Keez at Crying Eagle Brewing Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30pm $ = Free Family friendly Crying Eagle Brewing has weekly trivia every Tuesday with Keez, but you can join every week in October for a special round of Louisiana Archaeology questions! Trivia is 4 rounds of 10 questions with prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. […]

Presentation & Artifact Identification at Union Museum of History and Art

Union Museum of History and Art 211 N Main St, Farmerville, LA

Tuesday, October 18, 3-6:30pm $ = Free Wayne Abercrombie, retired contract archaeologist, will be available from 3-5pm to look at artifacts that people bring in for identification. At 5pm Wayne will present a lecture on his archeological work in Crete. Hosted by the Archaeology Research Center at the Union Museum of History and Art. For […]

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Trivia at Oak St Brewery

Oak St Brewery 8201 Oak St, New Orleans, LA

Wednesdays, 7-9pm $ = Free Family and Dog Friendly Oak St Brewery has weekly trivia every Wednesday, but you can join every week in October for a special round of Louisiana Archaeology questions! Trivia includes 7 rounds, 10 questions each including 1 picture round and 1 audio round. $50, $35, and $25 brewery gift cards […]

Rethinking Maya Heritage: Past and Present (Free Hybrid Lecture)

Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Richard M. Leventhal, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Executive Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania The story of Maya culture as a once-great civilization that built towering pyramids in the jungles of Central America was developed and popularized by national governments, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Previously unable to control the story of […]

Dr. Scott S. Williams: “The Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos, Oregon’s Beeswax Wreck”

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, United States

The Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos left the Philippine Islands for the Port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) in July 1693, loaded with Asian luxury goods of silk, fine cottons, porcelain, spices, art, and beeswax, in large blocks and candles. The ship, undermanned and with an inexperienced captain, somehow went hundreds of miles off […]

Using isotopic data to understand mobility and economic integration between coastal and interior settlements in Late Prehistoric Portugal

150 Art Building West (ABW) 141 N Riverside Dr, Iowa City, IA, United States

Dr. Waterman (Associate Professor of Biology, Mt. Mercy University) is the 2020 recipient of the AIA Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship and is excited to present her research to our society. Please join us as she enlightens us about the Portuguese Estremadura’s Late Neolithic through Early Bronze Age (c.3500-1500 BCE) periods. Large fortified coastal and interior […]