The Annual Review and Compliance Seminar hosted by the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office will be held Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at the Minnesota History Center, 3M Auditorium from 1 to 5 pm. To check out the agenda, for additional information about the event, and to register check out this link.
The Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Archaeological Society will be held Friday, April 20, 2012 at Sorin Hall on the campus of Hamline
University. Dr. Michael Michlovic, Professor of Anthropology at Minnesota State University – Moorhead will present a lecture titled “A Survey Archaeologist’s Perspective on Southwestern Minnesota Prehistory.” The presentation will focus on the 2010 Swift County survey, while at the same time addressing some ideas 
about culture change, diffusion, and the beginnings of more settled life-ways in the later portion of the prehistoric period. Some attention will also be devoted to the potential significance and drawbacks of archeological survey in an area such as the Minnesota prairies.
Dr. Michlovic’s lectures are always entertaining and informative. The cost is $20 per person which includes a buffet dinner and the event is open to everyone, member or not. For additional information check out this link.
The schedule for the Lithic Material Workshop in Iowa City February 24th and 25th has been posted. Click here to see it.
The dates and location for the 2012 Lake Superior Basin Workshop have been announced. It will be held Friday March 16th and Saturday March 17th at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The workshop is free and open to the public.
I hope at this point we have the email notification glitch corrected. No one who subscribed to the blog was being notified of new entries. You might want to scroll down the page to check out the entries you’ve missed.
I was told by my web guru that I was remiss in downloading some upgrades to programs and no one who subscribes to my blog was notified of the last couple of entries. That should be corrected now. So check out the previous couple of entries. One is on the Legacy Project reports available on the Office of the State Archaeologist website and the other on a program sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America-Minnesota Chapter this coming Thursday, Feb. 2, taking place at Macalster College.
For those of you who do long range planning, this week the Office of the State sent out a notice saying that they are shifting Minnesota Archaeology Week to the fall season this year in order to encourage more participation and avoid the inclement weather that has been plaguing the springtime events the last couple of years. Minnesota Archaeology Week will be held September 8th through the 16th, 2012.
After languishing for centuries in obscurity, the archaeological ruins of
Petra have become much better known in recent years, thanks to popularization by the movies, UNESCO World Heritage Site designation, and (relatively) favorable political conditions in Jordan. Nevertheless, the Nabataean people, who were responsible for building the spectacular monuments we see today at Petra, remain under-examined and little understood, although their remarkable civilization flourished in the Near East for over four hundred years. This lecture will provide an introduction to this enduring legacy at Petra, while also setting the enigmatic Nabataeans and their cultural achievements within a broader historical context. Speaker Dr. Jeff Pearson is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classics for the 2011-2012 academic year at Macalester. The lecture will be held Thursday, February 2, 20012 at 6pm in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the basement of the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College. It is sponsored by the Minnesota Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.
