NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

9/09/2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- Northwestern State University's Department of Social Sciences in cooperation with the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training will host the Sixth Annual South Central Historical Archaeology Conference Friday Sept. 12 through Sunday, Sept. 14. The meeting will be held at Lee H. Nelson Hall, the home of the NCPTT.

Northwestern faculty members Dr. George Avery, Dr. Hiram "Pete" Gregory, Dr. David Morgan, and Dr. Tommy Hailey, Jeffrey S. Girard will participate in the conference along with NSU student Gilen Norwood. Rhonda Gauthier of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center at Northwestern will also take part.

Historical archaelogists from a four-state area, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, will attend. Reports of current research in the field will be presented Friday from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. and Satuday from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Registration for the conference is $5. Special activities include a Friday evening dinner at St. Augustine Church on Cane River, and after supper, a presentation on the history of the Cane River Creoles by Mickey Moran, a Cane River Creole historian. The cost for the dinner is $10. On Sunday morning at 9 a.m., the National Park Service will host a tour of the Oakland and Magnolia plantations.

Historical archaeology in the Americas starts in 1492. Historical archaeologists learn about the people they are studying by using historical documents, ethnographic studies, and oral traditions, along with the results of their surveys and excavations.

For more information, contact Avery at (318) 357-4341.

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