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Brownbag Lectures: The 2008 Dickson Mounds Museum–Michigan State University Excavations at Morton Village

Brownbag Lectures: The 2008 Dickson Mounds Museum–Michigan State University Excavations at Morton Village

• Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
• Date: Wednesday, October 01, 2008, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Presented by Dr. Michael Conner, Associate Curator of Anthropology, Dickson Mounds Museum

From A.D. 1050 to about 1400, prehistoric Native Americans living in the Central Illinois River Valley were part of the Mississippian tradition, with cultural ties to the major Mississippian center at the Cahokia site near St. Louis. However, sometime in the late 1200s a group of people representing another cultural tradition, called Oneota, migrated into the region near Dickson Mounds. The Oneota tradition is primarily found in northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. In 2008, Michigan State University and Dickson Mounds Museum began excavations at an early Oneota site near the museum in the hopes of learning more about this migration and about interactions between Mississippian and Oneota groups, which may have included both conflict and cooperation. This talk will outline the background to the research program and discuss the 2008 excavations, the first of several years of field work.

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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