[RP TownTalk] Fwd: 2nd Saturday Lecture this Saturday Nov. 9th

[Kate Kelly]

Lecture:  Diving into the Past: Precontact Underwater Archaeology in North
America, Sat. 11/9/19


*A friend on the other side of Route 1, sends this invitation:*

*Friends, *
*Hope you can come to this lecture.  Please tell your neighbors and
colleagues.*
*Dave*


*Diving into the Past: Precontact Underwater Archaeology in North America*

*Saturday November 9th at the University Park Church of the Brethren 4413
Tuckerman Street University Park 5:00 pm.*

Have you ever wondered what North America was like at the end of the last
ice age, about 12,000 years ago? How did early Native Americans cope with
these conditions? *David Thulman*, University Park resident and Tuckerman
Street neighbor will describe some of the latest thinking (and
controversies) about who was in this area (and in the Southeast more
generally), how we try to understand the environment and climate at that
time, and some of the latest research from submerged archaeological sites
in Florida and elsewhere.

He will discuss this early world and several underwater precontact projects
that have uncovered human interactions with mammoths and mastodons, large
cemeteries, and rare ivory, bone, and wooden artifacts that typically do
not survive in land sites. Underwater precontact archaeology is changing
the way we think about early human occupation in North America.

David has an anthropology degree from the University of Pennsylvania, A law
degree from George Washington University and a PhD in archaeology from
Florida State University. He has been teaching at George Washington
University since 2007.

For more information about this lecture or if you might be interested in
presenting at a future lecture contact me at davidcbrosch at comcast.net or
240-888-1225.
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