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The 64th Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference comes to Knoxville
More than 650 visitors will be “digging into” Knoxville as the 64th annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) takes place Oct. 31 – Nov. 3 at the Knoxville Convention Center.
The Archaeological Research Laboratory and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee are hosting the 2007 meeting of the SEAC. The conference offers lectures on archaeology, including the imagery of ritual in Mississippian art, Civil War period historical archaeology, and re-assessing the archaeology of Fort George Island, Fla.
SEAC was founded in response to the increase in federally funded archaeological work in the Southeast during the 1930’s. The SEAC, founded by James A. Ford and James B. Griffin, allows excavators to quickly share new data with one another and to standardize ceramic types, since they were finding more sites in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. The biannual journal Southeastern Archaeology publishes over 200 pages per year of articles and book reviews.
For more information on the SEAC, please visit www.southeasternarchaeology.org/2007SEAC/2007seac.html.
