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2010
Date and Time: March 6-July 18
Title: Exploring Egypt: 19th Century Expeditionary Photography
Type of Event: Photographic exhibit focusing on 19th century rediscovery of Egypt.
Sponsor: Hall Family Foundation, the Campbell-Calvin Fund, the Elizabeth C. Bonner Charitable Trust and Midwest Airlines
Location: Bloch Buidling, Gallery L11, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO
Cost: unknown
Date and Time: March 11, 7:00 PM
Title: "Recent Investigations at Pawnee Indian Village State Historic Site"
Type of Event: Presentation.
Sponsor: Archaeological Association of South Central Kansas (AASCK)
Location: Neff Hall, Wichita State University
Cost: unknown
Contact Person for Event: Bob Cowdery 316-267-9030
Date and Time: March 11, 7:00 PM
Title: Peitrele, Romania: Insights into Ancient Farming and Metallurgy in East Europe
Type of Event: Presentation by Professor Marvin Kay, University of Arkansas.
Sponsor: Southwest Missouri Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society
Location: Missouri Southern State University, 3950 E. Newman, Joplin, MO
Cost: unknown
Contact Person for Event: Lyle Sparkman 417-472-7210 sparkman@mail.enr6.k12.mo.us
Date and Time: March 15, for 8 weeks
Title: Project Archaeology: Investigation Shelter
Type of Event: Online professional development virtual workshop for upper elementary teachers.
Sponsor: National Project Archaeology
Cost: $155.00
Contact Person for Event: Madlyn Runburg 801-671-7713 or mrunburg@umnh.utah.edu
Date and Time: March 18 - 20
Title: 52nd Caddo Conference and 17th East Texas Archeological Conference
Type of Event: Annual conference to learn more about current research on the native history and culture of the Caddo.
Location: Ornelas Activity Center, 3402 Old Omen Rd., University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
Cost: $20.00
Contact Person for Event: Dr. Thomas Guderjan guderjan@yahoo.com; Mark Walters mwalters@wildblue.net; http://www.52ndcaddo-17thetac.com/
Date and Time: March 18-20
Title: Flint Hills Conference
Type of Event: 32nd Annual conference
Sponsor: The Courson Family, Frank Phillips College, the Museum of the Plains, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, and the Perryton Chamber of Commerce.
Location: TBA Perryton, Texas
Cost: free
Contact Person for Event: http://coursonarchresearch.com/index/html
Date and Time: March 19 - 21
Title: Annual Meeting of the Missouri Archaeological Society
Type of Event: Annual meeting celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Missouri Archeological Society. including presentations, workshops, exhibits, field trip, auctions, and banquet.
Sponsor: The Kansas City Archeological Society and the Missouri Archeological Society.
Location: The Elms Resort and Spa, 401 Regent St., Excelsior Springs, MO
Cost: $15.00 Banquet: $20.00
Contact Person for Event: http://associations.missouristate.edu/mas/annualmeeting.html
Date and Time: March 22, 7:00 PM
Title: In Pursuit of Paleo with the Odyssey Team in 2009
Type of Event: Presentation at the monthly meeting of the Shawnee chapter of the Kansas Anthropological Association.
Sponsor: The Shawnee chapter of the Kansas Anthropological Association
Location: West staff lounge, Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Ave., Topeka (park in west parking lot and use west door)
Cost: free
Contact Person for Event: Chris Garst 785-272-8681 x151 or cgarst@kshs.org
Date and Time: March 23, 6:00 PM
Title: The Dyer Collection's Native American Woven Baskets
Type of Event: Visiting scholar, Ms. Gold, will discuss the many functional, cultural, and technological aspects of the Northwest woven baskets in the Museum's collection.
Sponsor: Kansas City Museum
Location: Union Station, 30 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, MO
Admission: Free - please pre-register
Contact for Event: http://unionstation.org/KansasCityMuseum/communitycurator.html
Date and Time: March 27, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Title: Caring for Your Collections
Type of Event: Class focusing on the storage and display of paper documents, books, photographs, audiovisual materials and a wide range of artifacts.
Sponsor: The Salina Public Library
Location: Library Prescott Room, Salina Public Library 301 W. Elm St., Salina
Cost: $9.00
Contact Person for Event: salinaclass.com or 785-825-4624
Date and Time: April 2 - 3
Title: Mountain Man Living History Encampment
Type of Event: The event is dedicated to telling the story of the pre-1840 fur trade era in the Midwest and Rocky Mountains. Come see demonstrations and more.
Sponsor: The Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum
Location: 31639 US Hwy 77, Arkansas City
Cost: $5.00 for adults $3.00 for children 6-12
Contact: (620) 442-6750
Date and Time: April 6, 7:00 PM
Title: Mayan post-collapse Societies on the Edge of Mesoamerica
Type of Event: Presentation
Sponsor: Kansas City Archaeological Society
Location: Arthur Mag Conference Center of the Midwest Research Institute, 425 Volker Blvd., Kansas City MO
Cost: unknown
Contact Person for Event: Gail Lundeen 816-478-6051
Date and Time: April 7 - 10
Title: "American Culture, American Democracy"
Type of Event: 103rd Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians
Sponsor: Organization of American Historians
Location: Hilton Washington, Washington, DC (see website)
Cost: see website
Contact Person for Event: http://www.oah.org/meetings/2010/
Date and Time: April 8, 3:00 - 7:00 PM
Title: KSHS Artifact Identification and Archeology Lab Tour Day
Type of Event: Archeologists will view collections and identify artifacts. No monetary evaluations will be given. Archeology Lab tours are available with volunteers participating in the processing of artifacts.
Sponsor: Archeology Office, Cultural Resources Division, Kansas Historical Society
Location: Center for Historical Research lobby gallery, Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Ave., Topeka
Cost: free
Contact Person for Event: Virginia Wulfkuhle 785-272-8681 x266 or vwulfkuhle@kshs.org
Date and Time: April 8, 7:00 PM
Title: The Iliniwek in 17th Century Missouri
Type of Event: Presentation by Roger Boyd.
Sponsor: Southwest Missouri Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society
Location: Missouri Southern State University, 3950 E. Newman, Joplin, MO
Cost: unknown
Contact Person for Event: Lyle Sparkman 417-472-7210 sparkman@mail.enr6.k12.mo.us
Date and Time: April 9 -11
Title: Southwestern Federation of Archeological Societies 46th Annual Symposium
Type of Event: Focusing on social or natural sciences of the region encompassing southeastern New Mexico and western Texas.
Sponsor: The Southeastern new Mexico Archeological Society and the Western Heritage Museum Complex
Location: New Mexico Junior College Campus, Hobbs, New Mexico
Cost: $5.00 for members; $10.00 for non-members
Contact Person for Event: Calvin Smith csmith@nmjc.edu
Date and Time: April 10, 2:00 PM
Title: "Kinsmen of the Wichita: Recent Investigations at Pawnee Indian Village"
Type of Event: Presentation
Sponsor: The Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum
Location: The Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum, 118 W. Central Ave., Arkansas City
Cost: Adults: $4.50, Seniors $3.50, Children $2.00
Contact Person for Event: Heather Ferguson (620) 442-6750 hferguson@arkansascityks.gov
Date and Time: April 14 - 18
Title: Society for American Anthropology Annual Meeting
Type of Event: 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Anthropology
Sponsor: Society for American Anthropology
Location: St. Louis, MO
Cost: see website
Contact Person for Event: http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/AnnualMeeting/
75thAnniversaryMeetingStLouis2010/tabid/1354/Default.aspx
Date and Time: April 15 - 16
Title: 52nd Missouri Conference on History
Type of Event: The Missouri Conference on History brings together teachers of history and
other professional historians to share in the presentation of the results of research, to exchange
information on teaching and curriculum, to consider ways to promote interest in history and the
welfare of the profession, and to discuss other concerns common to all historians.
Sponsor: The Missouri State Archives and The State Historical Society of Missouri
Location: Capitol Plaza Hotel and Convention Center, Jefferson City
Cost: see website http://shs.umsystem.edu/mch/
Date and Time: April 24 - 28, 8:00 AM registration
Title: KAA Annual Meeting
Type of Event: Annual meeting of the Kansas Anthropological Association will include a business meeting and presentations by area archeologists and naturalists..
Sponsor: Kansas Anthropological Association.
Location: Pratt County Historical Museum, 212 S. Ninnescah St., Pratt, KS
Cost: $3.00
Contact Person for Event: Sharon Sage, 785-256-2409
Date and Time: May 4, 7:00 PM
Title: The Biography of J. Mett Shippee
Type of Event: Presentation by Sarah Elder, Historian and curator of collections for the St. Joseph Museums
Sponsor: Kansas City Archaeological Society
Location: Arthur Mag Conference Center of the Midwest Research Institute, 425 Volker Blvd., Kansas City MO
Cost: unknown
Contact Person for Event: Gail Lundeen 816-478-6051
Date and Time: May 10 - 14
Title: International Symposium on Archaeometry
Type of Event: Symposium focusing on promoting the development and use of scientific
techniques in order to extract archaeological and historical information from the cultural heritage and the paleoenvironment.
Sponsor: The Society for Archaeological Science and the Univerisity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Tampa, FL
Cost: see website
Contact Person for Event: http://www.itarp.uiuc.edu/atam/newsandevents/intlarchaeometrysymposium.html
Date and Time: May 13, 7:00 PM
Title: The Spout Site
Type of Event: Presentation by Lisa Haney
Sponsor: Southwest Missouri Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society
Location: Missouri Southern State University, 3950 E. Newman, Joplin, MO
Cost: unknown
Contact Person for Event: Lyle Sparkman 417-472-7210 sparkman@mail.enr6.k12.mo.us
Date and Time: May 24 - 28
Title: Archeological Prospection Workshop
Type of Event: Workshop opened to archeologists and students with an interest in forensic and cemetery investigations.
Sponsor: National Park Service and the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Location: Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, 564 County Road 37 Stanton, ND
Cost: $475.00
Contact Person for Event: Steve DeVore 402-437-5392 x141; steve_de_vore@nps.gov; http://www.nps,gov/history/mwac
Date and Time: May 24 - 28
Title: Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century.
Type of Event: National Park Service Archeological Prospection Workshop
Sponsor: The National Park Service
Location: Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Stanton, North Dakota.
Cost: $475.00
Contact Person for Event: Steve DeVore, (402) 437-5392 or steve_de_vore@nps.gov
Date and Time: June 3 - 6
Title: The Society for Industrial Archeology Conference
Type of Event: 39th annual conference featuring featuring topics related to industry on the Frontier.
Sponsor: Society for Industrial Archeology
Location: Antlers Hilton Hotel, 4 S. Cascade Avenue Colorado Springs, CO
Cost: see website
Contact Person for Event: http://www.siahq.org/conference/coloradosprings/about.html
Date and Time: July 24, 10:00 A.M. - 3:00 PM
Title: Artifact Identification Day
Type of Event: Archeologists will answer questions about the publics archeological collections.
Sponsor: Pawnee Indian Museum and the Kansas Historical Society
Location: Pawnee Indian Museum, 480 Pawnee Trail, Republic, KS
Cost: free
Contact Person for Event: Richard Gould 785-361-2255 or piv@kshs.org
Date and Time: July 28 - 31
Title: National Underground Railroad Summit
Type of Event: Annual conference exploring ways present day people interested in the story of the UGRR make connections to a national story.
Sponsor: National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, National Park Service
Location: Capitol Plaza Hotel, 1717 SW Topeka Blvd., Topeka
Cost: see contact
Contact Person for Event: Network to Freedom, 402-661-1588 or diane_miller@nps.gov
Date and Time: August 23 - 28
Title: International Council for Archaeozoology Conference
Type of Event: 11th International Conference held ever four years promoting archaeozoology as a contributing science to archaeology and the history of biodiversity.
Sponsor: Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle
Location: Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France
Cost: see website
Contact Person for Event: http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/ICAZ2010/ICAZ%202010%201st%20circular_English or icaz2010@mnhn.fr
Date and Time: October 6 - 9
Title: Plains Anthropological Conference
Type of Event: 68th Annual meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society
Sponsor: State Historical Society of North Dakota
Location: Radisson Hotel, 6th and Broadway , Bismark, ND
Cost: see website
Contact Person for Event: Amy Bleier ableier@nd.gov; Paul Picha ppicha@nd.gov; or http://www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/plainsanth/meeting/meeting.htm
(785) 272-8681 ext 151
Date and Time: October 9 - 10
Title: Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference
Type of Event: Annual conference focusing this year on military and cultural conflict in the region since the protohistoric period.
Sponsor: unknown
Location: Heidelberg University, Tiffin OH
Cost: see website: http://herald.heidelberg.edu/mwhac10
Contact Person for Event: April M Beisaw abeisaw@heidelberg.edu
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