ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION for ADVANCEMENT of ARCHAEOLOGY

IOWA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

JOINT ANNUAL MEETING – MAY 2 – 3, 2015

Black Hawk College – Building 1

35th Avenue and 70th Street

Moline Illinois

 

Be sure to attend the joint IAAA and Iowa Archaeological Society annual meeting this year – Saturday will include separate business meetings, followed by talks on Quad Cities and Iowa City archaeology. Following lunch (included with registration) we will have a series of talks on ancient and post-contact Native American sites in the Midwest. After a break with refreshments, our featured speaker Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution will summarize Kennewick Man investigations.

To cap off the day, following supper (on your own) we will have an evening tour of two prominent recent American Indian sites: Saukenuk Village and Black Hawk’s Home site in Rock Island, Illinois. Continue the experience by joining us on Sunday morning for two tours, on of Moline chert quarry sites, the other of Albany Mounds State Historic site and the Lauren Young mound group.

For more info, www.museum.state.il.us/iaaa/events.htm or contact Ferrel Anderson at andersonfe@msn.com or telephone 563-324-0257.

Membership in I.A.A.A. (ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION for ADVANCEMENT of ARCHAEOLOGY) is $20 a year. Cost of the meeting is $25.