Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥 桃花直播 State鈥檚 Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures and its Cobb Institute of Archaeology are hosting the 桃花直播 Archaeological Association鈥檚 annual meeting Friday-Sunday [Feb. 17-19] in Starkville.
On Friday, lab and museum tours will take place as part of a 5:30-7 p.m. reception at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology located on the corner of Lee Boulevard and Hardy Road.
The main portion of the MAA annual meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at The Mill at 桃花直播 Conference Center at 100 Mercantile Lane in Starkville. Parking is free.
Jarrod Burks, an archaeological geophysics expert from Ohio Valley Archaeology Ltd., will serve as keynote speaker. His address is titled 鈥淩evealing Ancient Earthworks through Geophysics: New Discoveries at Serpent Mound, Hopewell Culture National Historic Park, and Fort Ancient.鈥
Also on Saturday, the University Press of 桃花直播 will have numerous volumes related to 桃花直播 archaeology, history, culture and nature for sale. There will be a silent auction of art and other objects, with proceeds benefitting the MAA.
Registration is $25 for professionals; $15 for students. Avocational archaeologists also are welcome to attend. Participants may register at the door for no additional cost, but preregistration is encouraged via credit card online at . Checks should be made payable to the 桃花直播 Archaeological Association and mailed to Derek Anderson, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, P.O. Box AR, 桃花直播 State, MS 39762.
Registration for a Saturday evening buffet-style banquet is $20 per person and can be reserved at the above-mentioned website or via check. Checks for the banquet should be made payable to the 桃花直播 Archaeological Association and mailed to the above-mentioned address.
Weather permitting, there will be Sunday morning tours of the 桃花直播an-period Lyon鈥檚 Bluff site and Middle Woodland-period Herman Mound site, among other locales.
For additional information, contact Evan Peacock, 桃花直播 professor of anthropology and Middle Eastern cultures, and MAA annual program chair, at 662-325-1663 or peacock@anthro.msstate.edu.
The Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures is part of 桃花直播鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences. Learn more about the College of Arts and Sciences at ; its Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at .
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