Tuscaloosa Chapter of Alabama Archaeological Society

Our next meeting is this Wednesday, March 21st!

Join us at 6:30pm in TenHoor Room 22 for our new president Clay Nelson's presentation on protohistoric settlements in Talladega County!

Welcome back everyone!!

This Wednesday, September 13th, is our first Fall meeting of 2017! Please join us at at 6:30pm in tenHoor Hall Room 22 for a great presentation by Dr. Brooke Persons! Dr. Persons will be presenting on archaeological correlates of emancipation in the US Virgin Islands. For more information about the talk, check out the abstract below!
All are welcome, see you there!

Abstract:
Events leading to the Emancipation of enslaved peoples in the Danish West Indies offer a powerful narrative of resistance in the 18th and 19th centuries, a period for which colonial archaeological sites are ubiquitous in the US Virgin Islands. In St. Croix, these events culminated in a series of 19th century revolts, uprisings, and labor disputes. While our understanding of these events has been largely informed by archival sources, oral history, and anecdotal data, identifying specific events in the archaeological record has proven more difficult. This difficulty can be attributed, in part, to the fact that many of the areas in which we would expect to find sites related to the fight for Emancipation are located within or adjacent to developed urban centers. Recent investigations at a series of sites located in Frederiksted, St. Croix, have provided an opportunity to consider not only the archaeological correlates of these critical events, but also an opportunity to weigh new data against those expectations. These findings have import not only for identifying these ephemeral, but important sites, but also for the long-term management and preservation of these pivotal moments in history, especially within areas that have long been assumed to be disturbed.

Archaeologists Will Lowe and LInda Derry were working on the site of Alabama's first statehouse today. All the pieces are starting to fit together (finally!). Linda thinks they are beginning to unravel the mystery of where exactly the statehouse stood. They uncovered, what appeared to be the remains of an 1833 oyster roast among the rubble of the collapsed statehouse! Also found a nearly intact pane of window glass nearby. Up until today, we found lots of window glass but it was all broken into tiny, tiny shards.

Save the Date! The Moundville Native American Festival is less than two months away! Bring your family and friends out for what will surely be one of the best festivals yet! Spread the word and hope to see you all October 4th - 7th! See you at the Park!

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We haven't been here yet, but it looks strangely familiar....

We have the details for our upcoming Summer Meeting:

Our next meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday March 8th, at 6:30pm in tenHoor Hall Room 22!

Our guest speaker is Dr. Ian Brown, Chair of UA's Department of Anthropology. Dr. Brown's talk is entitled "University of Alabama and the Vergina Project: Opportunities for Students Excavating in Greece".

As always, camaraderie (and pizza + beer) after at Little Italy!

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Next week at Blakeley State Park

Dr. Ashley Dumas of the University of West Alabama, will present an original video documentary, Making Archaeology Public: Alabama, tomorrow at 12-1 pm in Room 21, tenHoor Hall.

Sponsored by the Society for American Archaeology, this is Alabama’s contribution to a video series, one for each state, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act.

All are welcome!

Our next meeting is this Wednesday, February 8th, at 6:30pm in tenHoor Hall Room 22!

Our guest speaker is Dr. Elliot Blair, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology here at the University of Alabama. Dr. Blair's talk is entitled "Recent Archaeological Research on St. Catherines Island, GA".

As always, camaraderie (and pizza + beer) after at Little Italy!

Correction!

The annual winter meeting of the Alabama Archaeological Society will take place at Archives and History in Montgomery, AL, on January 28th. See you there!

The annual winter meeting of the Alabama Archaeological Society is fast approaching! This year's meeting will be at the Oakville Indian Mounds, in Danville, AL, on January 28th.

More details coming soon!