Interested in Touching the Past?
In Arkansas, you can! By joining the Arkansas Archeological Society, you can hold a 3,000-year-old stone tool that the first Arkansans used to hunt game. You can turn up the grass and find the foundations of a prehistoric farmhouse or the remains of a French colonial fort. You can visit a mound center built 1,000 years ago by people who did not leave writings but could read the stars. You can help preserve, protect, and appreciate the historic places that hold unwritten stories of people who made Arkansas their home over the last 10,000 years.
Today, thousands of sites face destruction through development and vandalism, and the stories they could tell may never be heard. Through protection and proper study we can preserve the most important of these places to commemorate and learn about the lives of people who may never be mentioned in history books, but who are part of Arkansas’s heritage. The Arkansas Archeological Society is an organization for people who want to help in this task.
A full updated list of Society and Survey events is curated on the Survey’s website. Click here to view.
The Ouachita Chapter of the AAS is having its first meeting of 2024 on Tuesday, January 2nd at 7pm in Hot Springs in the Board Room of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Science, and the Arts (ASMSA). The new year is a great time to get involved in AAS events and local chapter meetings!
As always, chapter meetings are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Red River (Magnolia) December Meeting:
Ko-Ko-Ci (Fayetteville) December Meeting:
7pm, Washington County Extension Office- Dr. Hermes, UA-Fayetteville Department of Anthropology, will be speaking with us about Emergence and Evolution of Pastoralism in Central Asia. Pastoralism is at the subsistence core of ancient and contemporary communities in Central Asia, ranging from the northern Caucasus to Mongolia. When and how this food production strategy first appeared, spread throughout the region, and evolved remains poorly understood. In this talk, Dr. Hermes will discuss his research on key processes concerning Central Asian pastoralism with a diverse research program that incorporates archaeological excavation of pastoralist sites, stable isotope analysis, livestock paleogenomics, and analysis of ancient proteins in human dental calculus to assess milk consumption. Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/3GYKbnrSo
