The Archaeological Institute of America will be hosting a lecture Sunday March 1st, "The Archaeology of the Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Native American-Euroamerican Frontier Along the Missouri River". Rob Bozell (Nebraska State Archaeologist) will be presenting at 2:00pm, Joslyn Art Museum.
Lecture Abstract
Europeans first came into direct contact with eastern Nebraska Native American in the early 1700s. This sparked a dramatic period in Great Plains history punctuated by exploration, commerce, conflict, and ultimately, the near total collapse of tribal lifeways that had been in place for close to a thousand years. This illustrated talk examines the archeological ruins of Nebraska fur trading posts, military installations, and Native American earth lodge villages that have helped to tell this story.
Speaker Bio
Rob Bozell is the Nebraska State Archeologist and works for History Nebraska. He received BA and MA degrees in anthropology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has been actively involved in archeological research and cultural resource management in Nebraska and surrounding states for 40 years. His professional and research interests have focused on the central and northern Great Plains and include: late pre-contact and post-contact Native American archeology, subsistence and environmental change, fur trade archeology, repatriation, and tribal consultation.
For more information, see: https://www.joslyn.org/visit/calendar-of-events/details.aspx?ID=4040