Saturday, October 22nd, 1:00 to 4:00pm In Person Event Do you have any stone artifacts or Northeastern Native American cultural items? Between 1:00 and 4:00, join our Research Department for a small group Artifact I.D. Day. Join the conversation as they identify and provide interesting commentary about your items. While they can’t appraise or speculate […]
Saturday, April 1 1:00pm - 4:00pm In-Person EventDo you have any stone artifacts or Northeastern Native American cultural items? Between 1:00 and 4:00pm, join our Research Department for an Artifact I.D. Day. join the conversation as we identify and provide interesting commentary about your items. While we can’t appraise or speculate about the value of […]
Do you have any stone artifacts or Northeastern Native American cultural items? Between 1:00 and 4:00pm, join our Research Department for an Artifact I.D. Day. join the conversation as we identify and provide interesting commentary about your items. While we can’t appraise or speculate about the value of an object, we can certainly talk about […]
Saturday, October 21 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Do you have any stone artifacts or Northeastern Native American cultural items? Between 1:00 and 4:00pm, our Research Department will be hosting an Artifact I.D. Day. Join the conversation as we identify and provide interesting commentary about your items. While we can’t appraise or speculate about the […]
Sunday, October 29 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Deep in the woods of Barkhamsted, Connecticut archaeologist Ken Feder found a series of irregular cellar holes that led to an archaeological and genealogical investigation into what had come to be known as the legend of the Barkhamsted Lighthouse. In the mid-1700s, Molly and James Chaugham, […]
Sunday, November 12 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Published in October 2023, Our Hidden Landscapes, edited by Dr. Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas (Mohegan), provides an important new lens for interpreting stone structures that had previously been attributed to settler colonialism. With contributions from a plethora of Native American culture bearers, anthropologists, and archaeologists, this […]
Saturday, December 16th 2:00PM - 3:30PM This is a virtual presentation This year, the Institute for American Indian Studies Annual Native American-Archaeology Roundtable series seeks to explore ecological ties, past and present, through the sharing of new technologies, new findings, and new analyses that help bring Indigenous communities into greater focus. Dr. Frederick Wiseman is […]
Saturday, January 13th 2:00PM - 4:00PM This is a virtual presentation Fourteenth to seventeenth-century Northern Iroquoian villages housed hundreds to over 1000 individuals. Various forms of evidence, including isotopic analyses of human teeth, as well as ethnohistorical accounts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, suggest that Iroquoian farmers produced large quantities of maize and other […]
Saturday, January 27th 2:00PM - 3:30PM This is a virtual event Analysis of deer and quahog remains from archaeological sites in Southern New England suggests that European colonialism and capitalism inspired unprecedented harvest pressure on these species, despite the human population of the region being smaller than almost ever before. The cause of this overexploitation […]
Saturday, March 16th 1:00PM - 4:00PM Do you have any stone artifacts or Northeastern Native American cultural items? Between 1:00 and 4:00pm, our Research Department will be hosting an Artifact I.D. Day. Join the conversation as we identify and provide interesting commentary about your items. While we can’t appraise or speculate about the value of […]