International Archaeology Day activities at the University of Iowa: Oct. 14 & 19, 2013 Sponsored by the Office of the State Archaeologist, the University of Iowa Departments of Anthropology, Classics, Religion, and Art and Art History, and the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History and Museum of Art Monday, October 14, 2013 Studying Famous Atlatls: From Museum to Field Test Dr. John C. Whittaker, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 7:30 pm in the Art Building West, University of Iowa Museum specimens of rare artifacts often have enlightening individual stories. They also serve as models for replications that can be directly tested, giving us examples of particular technologies, and some insights into their capabilities and possible uses. The Aztec Atlatl in the British Museum, and the unusual atlatls recovered by Cushing’s 19th century excavations in Florida are examples of well-known but little studied artifacts. Saturday, October 19, 2013 (Saturday’s International Archaeology Day events are held in conjunction with the Iowa Archeological Society’s Fall Meeting. For more information, please visit uiowa.edu/~osa/IAS/index.html) Events being at 9:00 a.m. and will be held at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History -Refreshments and tour MNH Southwestern Pottery and Arctic Display from the UI MNH collections -Opening and Welcome Address -RAGBRAI: Team Archaeology and Six Years of Iowa Archaeology on the Road. Team Archaeology Riders -A Clovis Point Find from the Nishnabotna: 3D scanning for Enhanced Analysis. Mark L. Anderson -Understanding the Peopling of the Americas: A Discourse Between an Archaeologist and Geneticist. Drew Kitchen and Matthew Hill, Department Anthropology, University of Iowa -Lunch Break: 12:30-1:30 pm -Archaeology Activities, Tours and Demonstrations from 1:30 pm-4:30pm, in and around Macbride Hall including: Prehistoric technology demonstrations: flintknappers, hide-scraping, atlatls and spears, weaving, petroglyphs, and more -Interactive Native American children’s games -Artifact identification table (no appraisals provided) -Information and hand-outs on a variety of archaeology topics -Tours of UI Department of Anthropology laboratories -Special Southwestern US ceramics and arctic display in the Old Capitol Museum -Tours of the Museum of Natural History archaeology exhibits (throughout the day)
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