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Archaeology Talk at Dickson Mounds Museum
- Location: ISM Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown
- Date: Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
On Tuesday, February 7, 2012, Dickson Mounds Museum archaeologist Alan Harn will present the lecture, "Six Hundred Generations There: Changes in the Land and Human Settlement Evolution at the Emiquon Wildlife Complex" at 7:00 p.m. in the Illinois State Museum Dickson Mounds auditorium.
In the early 1930s, the University of Chicago ushered in a new era of archaeological innovation with their excavations at the Morton site, now a part of the developing Emiquon Preserve. Subsequent reconnaissance surveys at Emiquon have located 29 mortuary sites and 129 habitation areas featuring examples of every prehistoric culture now identified in the region. More than 30 archaeological excavations have been carried out at these locations from 1930 to the present. The presentation will combine these unique explorations into the human past with recently obtained geological information to assess landform assemblages, related climatic change, and demonstrate how man adjusted his lifeway to accommodate the changing Illinois valley landscape over the past 12,000 years.
IVAS programs are free of charge and the public is welcome. For more information call 309.547.3721.
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