“The Clovis Culture” by Dr. Juliet Morrow of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro will be the topic for the next Baxter County Historical & Genealogical Society meeting Tuesday evening at 6:00 in the Knox Room of the Donald W. Reynolds Library.
The presentation is about the oldest known widespread population in North and South America 13,500 years ago. It will include a first-hand tour of many significant Clovis sites, including Anzick, East Wenatchee, and Murray Springs, many of which are found accidentally by avocational archaeologists and brought to the attention of professionals. “The Clovis Culture” will be brought to life through pictures and discussion of their daily activities, beliefs, and thoughts based largely on studies of their hunting equipment and the late ice age environment, but also on the wealth of information about hunting societies across the world.
Morris is currently a Survey Archaeologist with the Arkansas Archaeological Survey. Her 1996 doctoral dissertation summarized the evidence for the Peopling of the Americas and focused on the technology and mobility of Clovis and related fluted-point makers. She has directed investigations of dozens of sites in the Midwest and Midsouth, including large scale excavations at the Martens Clovis camp in St. Louis County, Missouri, the Late Mississippian Greenbrier town near Batesville and the National Georgraphic-funded King Mastodon site in Jonesboro.
Her specialties include lithic technology and osteology (stones and bones). She teaches archeology and anthropology courses at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and workshops at the Annual Training program of the Arkansas Archeological Survey/Society. In her position with the Survey, she uses her experience in geology and pedology to search for ancient, buried, single occupation sites, records cemeteries and also conducts excavations to save archeological sites for future generations. Research includes the study of Clovis tools from the Anzick site, which to date is the only Clovis burial, as well as stone tools from the East Wenatchee, Simon , and Murray Springs Clovis sites.
The Baxter County Historical & Genealogical Society meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:00 in the Knox Room of the Donald W. Reynolds Library in Mountain Home. All meetings are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Society at 870-425-2551 or visit their website <a href=”http://baxtercountyhistory.org/home.aspx”>//baxtercountyhistory.org/home.aspx</a> or their Facebook page, Baxter County Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc.