2013 Michigan Archaeology Day

Date:  October 12, 2013  
Time:  11:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Location: Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing

Here's your chance to meet archaeologists, to learn of their research and to see one-day-only exhibits from their excavations and underwater explorations. Come early—you'll receive a free 2013 Michigan Archaeology Day poster while supplies last.

The day will include:

• Demonstrations
• Presentations
• Children's Activities (like the mock excavation pictured here)
• Exhibitors & Special Displays

We're continuing to add to the program, so check back again.

Free admission for today's event made possible with the generous sponsorship of:

Michigan State Housing Development Authority

For more information, please send us an e-mail or telephone (517) 373-3559.

The Michigan Historical Museum—flagship of the Michigan Historical Museum System—is located inside the Michigan Library and Historical Center, 702 West Kalamazoo Street, Lansing. The museum and visitor parking are on the north side of Kalamazoo Street, two blocks east of M. L. King Jr. Boulevard. Sunday admission and weekend parking are free. Here's more information about how to find us.

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2013 PROGRAM

An archaeology information station in the museum lobby offers free handouts about archaeology from the State Archaeologist. Also in the rotunda, you'll find information about the State Historic Preservation Office; the Conference on Michigan Archaeology; the Michigan Archaeological Society; the Michigan Historic Preservation Network and the Michigan Department of Transportation.

DEMONSTRATIONS

Archaic Hunting Skills. - Outdoors, between the visitors parking lot and the front entrance
Practice shooting at a deer target, using darts and an atlatl (spear-thrower), like those used in Michigan forests thousands of years ago. Give it a try! Presented by Ron Burk and Mike Mauer, Michigan Archaeological Society, Saginaw Chapter.

Flintknapping: Stone Tool-Making - Museum, Second Floor
How did people hunt and butcher game before there were guns and steel knives? How did they tan hides or chop down trees using only tools made of bone and stone? Presented by Bob Love

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PRESENTATIONS in the FORUM AUDITORIUM

Opening remarks from Dr. Dean L. Anderson, State Archaeologist

11 a.m.	Jeffrey D. Sommer, Curator of Archaeology at the Historical Society of Saginaw County, Inc., discusses archaeological investigation of the Clunie site, a prehistoric Native American site in the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge.
12 noon	Dr. Krysta Ryzewski, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University, talks about current urban archaeological research taking place in Detroit.
1 p.m.	Seth DePasqual, Cultural Resource Manager and NEPA Specialist at Isle Royale National Park, explores Native American copper mining on Isle Royale and in the western Upper Peninsula, which took place as early as 7,000 years ago.
2 p.m.	Wayne Lusardi, Maritime Archaeologist for the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve in Alpena, shares the stories of ships that were lost 100 years ago in the notorious Storm of 1913.

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EXHIBITORS & SPECIAL DISPLAYS
Museum, Second Floor

Warner Sesquicentennial Farmstead
presented by Tim Bennett, Michigan Archaeological Society

Archaeology at Mackinac
presented by Dr. Lynn Evans, Mackinac State Historic Parks

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
presented by Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project, Western Michigan University

Campus Archaeology Program
presented by Kate Frederick, Michigan State University

Great Lakes Underwater Technology—ROVs
presented by Dr. Mark Gleason, Alpena Community College and West Michigan Underwater Preserve

Native Copper
presented by Dr. John R. Halsey, State Archaeologist (Retired)

Nautical Archaeology Society Program
presented by Dr. Mark W. Holley, Northwestern Michigan College

The History of Saginaw as Told by a Road
presented by Dr. Misty Jackson, Arbre Croche Cultural Resources

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
presented by Wayne Lusardi, Michigan Historical Center and Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve

Identifying Military Artifacts
presented by Eric Perkins, Michigan Historical Museum

Artifacts from the Michigan Archaeological Society
presented by Don Simons, Michigan Archaeological Society

CMU Archaeological Field School
presented by Dr. Sarah Surface-Evans, Central Michigan University

Apple Island Archaeology
presented by Dr. LouAnn Wurst, Western Michigan University

Artifacts from Sites and Farm Collections near the Headwaters of the Grand, Kalamazoo and Raisin Rivers in South-Central Michigan
presented by Dan Wymer, Michigan Archaeological Society

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Updated 09/10/2013