Message-ID: <20140306173246.NLXOG.333508.root@cdptpa-web05> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 17:32:46 +0000 From: <ksampson2@wi.rr.com> Subject: Aztalan Lecture-March 22
Hi everyone,
Here is a rescheduling of this lecture I was supposed to do about a month a
go, it was cancelled that day due to bad weather and driving conditions. Pl
ease pass this information along to any interested parties. A Flier is also
attached above.
Thanks,
Kurt
Archaeology Lecture: Friends of Aztalan State Park
Lecture Title:
The Milwaukee Public Museum Aztalan Excavation Photographs:
A Photographic Journey through the 1919, 1920, and 1932
Samuel A. Barrett Excavations at Aztalan
Please join archeologist, museum curator, and Aztalan State Park Naturalist
Kurt A. Sampson as he takes you on a photographic journey of the Milwaukee
Public Museum’s Aztalan Excavations.
In 1919, 1920, and again briefly 1932, the Milwaukee Public Museum lead by
Samuel A. Barrett conducted the first professional and systematic excavatio
ns of any site in the state of Wisconsin at the Aztalan site. Samuel Barret
t was the first formally trained North American archaeologist to work in th
e state of Wisconsin. During his three excavations at Aztalan over 500 blac
k and white excavation photographs were taken that help detail certain aspe
cts of the sites unique prehistoric occupation. Taken from several portions
of the site, these photographs help to illustrate Barrett’s excava
tions and help to confirm and disprove many of the sites earlier discoverie
s and assumptions made by earlier Aztalan site explorers such as Judge Nath
aniel Hyer, Increase Lapham, and T.H. Lewis. Samuel Barrett also identified
many new aspects of the site and its mysteries. Many of these excavation p
hotographs are highlighted in Barrett’s pioneering and classic work
entitled Ancient Aztalan published in 1933.
* Many new recently discovered photographs taken of these excavations have
been discovered in the Lake Mills-Aztalan Historical Society and will be sh
own for the first time to the general public.
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Saturday, March 22, 2014
PLACE: Fargo Public Library – Lake Mills, WI at 120 E. Madison Stre
et, Lake Mills / For additional information please Call 414-405-4367 or ema
il ksampson2@wi.rr.com