IVAS Lecture Series: Rediscovering Ogden-Fettie

IVAS Lecture Series: Rediscovering Ogden-Fettie

• Location: ISM Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown
• Date: Wednesday, July 02, 2014, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Dr. Michael Wiant and Kelvin Sampson of the Illinois State Museum – Dickson Mounds Museum will present a talk titled: “Rediscovering Ogden-Fettie” at the Wednesday, July 2, 2014 meeting of the Illinois Valley Archaeological Society. The presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m. This lecture is free and the public is invited to attend.

The Ogden-Fettie site is a 2000-year-old settlement/cemetery complex located on the northern edge of the Spoon River floodplain as it enters the Illinois River Valley. The site has been the subject of archaeological inquiry for more than 80 years. This May, Dickson Mounds Museum archaeologists and volunteers collected artifacts from the surface of the Ogden-Fettie site. The distribution of artifacts reveals information about the geological and cultural history of the site. In this slide illustrated presentation, Michael Wiant will briefly review the long history of archaeological study of this site and in particular the results of a recent graduate student thesis on pottery collected from the site in 1959 and 1985 and the recent surface collection. Kelvin Sampson will discuss the distribution of copper artifacts found at the site.

The Illinois State Museum—Dickson Mounds is located between Lewistown and Havana off Illinois Routes 78 and 97. The museum is open free to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day. Tours and special programs are available for groups with reservations. For more information call 309.547.3721 or TTY 217.782.9175 or visit the museum's web site at www.ExperienceDicksonMounds.com. Also check out weekly updates on Facebook at “Illinois State Museum – Dickson Mounds”.