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Artifacts and Ancient Places: Aero-Archaeology in the Illinois Country
- Location: ISM Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown
- Date: Tuesday, May 03, 2011, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
On Tuesday, 3 May 2011, Alan Harn, Assistant Curator of Anthropology at Dickson Mounds Museum, will present Artifacts and Ancient Places: Aero-Archaeology in the Illinois Country. The presentation is at 7:00 p.m. at Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown, Illinois as part of the monthly meeting of the Illinois Valley Archaeological Society, which is open to the public.
Archaeologists have long employed a variety of innovative techniques to better analyze and understand the lifeways of Illinois’ earliest inhabitants. In the spring of 1922, two air force pilots flying over the ancient metropolis of Cahokia, near the present East St. Louis, shot the first successful aerial photographs ever made of an American archaeological site. More than three decades would pass before other archaeologists began to build on this early record, this time focusing on sites in the Central Illinois River Valley. Using early aerial photographs made by the United States Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service in concert with their own reconnaissance flights, researchers are both discovering new archaeological locations and productively reexamining a variety of known prehistoric sites. Dramatic aerial vistas presented in this program by Dickson Mounds Museum archaeologist Alan Harn feature lost mounds, village plans, houses, temples, fortifications, and other underground features that provide graphic evidence of early life and land use in prehistoric Illinois.
IVAS programs are free of charge and the public is welcome. For more information call 309.547.3721.
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