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Brownbag Lectures: Aircraft, Archaeology and Ancient Places

Brownbag Lectures: Aircraft, Archaeology and Ancient Places

• Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
• Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Presented by Alan Harn, Department of Anthropology, Dickson Mounds Museum

Archaeologists have long employed a variety of innovative techniques to better analyze and understand the lifeways of Illinois' earliest inhabitants. Using early aerial photographs of the landscape taken by the United States Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service in concert with the museum's recent program of reconnaissance flights, researchers are both discovering new archaeological site locations and productively re-examining a variety of known sites to open new windows to the past. Dramatic aerial vistas featuring lost mounds, village plans, houses, temples, fortifications and other long-secreted structures provide graphic evidence of land use and divisions of space in prehistoric Illinois.

One of our Brownbag Lectures

Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.

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