MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Kadohadacho Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society will conduct its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, in room 104 of the Bruce Center located on the campus of Southern Arkansas University.
Dr. Thomas J. Green will be the guest lecturer. Green is the director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey, a statewide research, public service, and education institution with eleven research stations in Arkansas. He will be speaking about the archeology of the first people to inhabit North America in his lecture, “Paleoindian or Paleoamerican?”
Many controversies surround the first Americans such as: Who were they? Where did they come from? When did they arrive? And how are they a part of our politics in the present?
Recent finds of sites that seem to date as much as 35 to 40 thousand years ago, along with early human skeletons that do not have features like those of modern Native Americans, have led some archeologists to make astonishing claims about how people came to the New World and when they arrived. Green will examine these recent trends and attempt to form a better understanding of why archeologists disagree and what these finds all mean.
The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Jamie Brandon at 870-235-4229.
