Event Description: The Illinois State Museum monthly lecture will be held on December 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Alan Harn, Dickson Mounds Museum will present "Archaeo/Geological Investigations of the Emiquon Refuge Restoration Project, Fulton County, Illinois." This event is free and open to the public.
In 2003, Dickson Mounds Museum and the Nature Conservancy began a comprehensive archaeological investigation of the newly developing Emiquon preserve. These studies indicate that today's Thompson Lake is only the most recent in a series of former Illinois River channels that occupied the bottomland. Nearly 70 new archaeological sites were found within the refuge over the last several years, and excavations and soil coring into the bottomland sediments are providing new insights into paleoclimates, bottomland geomorphology, and how early Native Americans adjusted to this constantly changing world.
Discover Illinois' rich prehistoric and historic past by attending a Paul Mickey Science program. A different speaker and topic are featured each month. For more information on upcoming topics and speakers, please contact Nina Walthall at 217-782-0061.
Directions: Access to the Research and Collections Center is from 10 1/2 Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. The building is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
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