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Explore State’s Past with Archaeology Month
October is Archaeology Month, and the department’s sites across the state are celebrating with these free public events.
Saturday, October 10, 10 a.m. at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez. Natchez Indians Exodus to Louisiana. Celebrate Archaeology Month in Natchez with a special presentation on the town’s namesake, the Natchez Indians. Join Grand Village director Lance Harris, Louisiana Archaeological Conservancy president Dennis Jones, and amateur archaeologist Jack Shaffer at 10 a.m. for a discussion of why the Natchez left the area. Afterwards, participants are invited to caravan to the Sicily Island site in Louisiana for a guided tour.
For more information call 601-446-6502 or email info@ natchezgrandvillage.com.
Saturday, October 10, 1-4 p.m. at Winterville Mounds, Greenville. Artifact Identification. The public is invited to bring arrowheads, pottery sherds, and other artifacts from their private collections for identification. MDAH archaeologists will be on hand to help establish the age, origin, and function of each.
For more information call 662-334-4684 or email info@ wintervillemounds.com.
Tuesday, October 13, 6 p.m. at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez. Archaeology Speaker Series. University of North Carolina professor of anthropology Vincas Steponaitis will discuss the history of Fort Rosalie at the Grand Village auditorium. Construction of the fort in 1716 marked the birth of the city ofNatchez. Using maps dating to the 1700s, Steponaitis will discuss the site’s changing appearance and position and how the maps can reveal which portions of the fort were lost to
erosion and which remain.
For more information call 601-446-6502 or email info@ natchezgrandvillage.com.
Wednesday, October 14, noon-lp.m. at the William F. Winter Archives Building, Jackson. As part of the History Is Lunch series, Brad Prewitt, executive director of the Chickasaw Nation’s Inkana Foundation, will screen First Encounter, a documentary film about the tribe’s contact with Europeans. The film won the Best Short Documentary at the Trail Dance Film Festival in January of this year.
For more information email info@mdah.state.ms.us or call 601-576-6998.
Saturday, October 17, 1-4 p.m. at Winterville Mounds, Greenville. Winterville Lecture Series. Grand Village of the Natchez Indians historian Becky Martin Anderson will present “Southeastern Native American Mythology and the Afterlife.” Using art, astronomy, archaeology, and ancient earthworks, Anderson will examine the worldview of each southeastern
Saturday, October 24,10 a.m.^1 p.m. at the Old Capitol Green, Jackson. The annual Mississippi Archaeology Expo will feature activities for all ages. Visitors can observe flintknapping, and artifact displays, ground-penetrating radar demonstrations and a mock archaeological dig. Other highlights include face painting, bracelet making, pendant coloring, pottery making, and javelin throwing.
For more information, call 601-576-6944.
Saturday, October 24, 1 p.m. at Winterville Mounds, Greenville. Movie Night: First Encounters. Produced by the Chickasaw Nation, this documentary looks at the events surrounding the first encounters between the Chickasaw and the De Soto Expedition.
For more information call 662-334-4684 or email info@ wintervillemounds.com.
Thursday, October 29, 6 p.m. at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez. Archaeology Speaker Series. Louisiana Archaeological Conservancy president Dennis Jones will
Native American culture.
For more information call 662-334-4684 or email info@ wintervillemounds.com.
present “The Nameless Dead,” the conclusion of his series on the Filhiol Mound Site near Monroe, Louisiana. Jones will
examine twentieth-century mortuary practices at the site, which is similar to areas in the Natchez vicinity such as the Foster and Mazique mounds.
For more information call 601-446-6502 or email info@ natchezgrandvillage.com.
Wednesday-Friday, October 28-30, at Winterville Mounds, Greenville. Native American Days features traditional dances, stories, and games. Native crafts and foods will be for sale.
Performers include traditional Houma dancer Cocoa Creppel, the Choctaw Southern Pine Singers, and the Native American Cultural Exchange storyteller and dancers. Activities will include face-painting and bead-stringing for children, archery demonstrations, and Native American games of stickball and chunky, which will be open to all comers.
The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Southern Traditional Archery Association, and other groups will have demonstration and educational booths at the event.
Student events will begin at 9 a.m. and run through 4 p.m., Wednesday through Friday. Performances will begin at 9:30 a.m. and run through 1 p.m. School groups should call ahead for a complete schedule of events when booking a field trip.
Thursday, October 29, 6-8 p.m. Luak Chito: the Great Fire. Join members of the Chickasaw of Oklahoma, the Choctaw Southern Pine Singers, the Native America^ Cultural Exchange, and Houma Nations for demonstrations of traditional Native American songs, dances, and storytelling around the Great Fire. Fry bread, Indian tacos, buffalo burgers, and smoked turkey legs will be on sale that evening.