Topics Related to Archaeology Month
October 17, 2018, 11:30pm - October 18, 2018, 12:30am
Dive into inter-agency partnerships to discover, research, and protect the hallmarks of North Carolina’s maritime cultural heritage: shipwrecks.
October 4, 2018, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Mr. McKee will discuss how natural and artificial changes to the Cape Fear River affects the archaeology of one of NC’s oldest ports, Brunswick Town.
October 12, 2018, 7pm - 8:30pm
Dr. Moore examines the changing paleo-environments of the Southeastern Coastal Plain and the ways humans adapted to their shifting world millennia ago.
October 5, 2017, 11:30pm - October 6, 2017, 12:30am
Over the last several decades, archaeologists have become increasingly interested in a variety of cultural behaviors along the edges of the Mississippian world. Although most research has focused on the Mississippian side of this boundary, there is obvious utility in understanding the societies on the other side, particularly where interaction across the cultural frontier may have occurred. This research seeks to understand the economic behavior among one of these societies, the Piedmont Village Tradition (PVT) in the upper Yadkin River Valley (UYRV).
October 25, 2017, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Now approaching his 35th year of archaeological study of the Moravians of Wachovia, Dr. Hartley, Director of Archaeology at Old Salem Museums and Gardens, will talk about past, present and future historical archaeology there.North Carolina Museum of History | 5 East Edenton, Raleigh, NCView the flyer (pdf)