Archaeology Lecture

The final Archaeology Lecture of the 2018-19 academic year at Monmouth College will feature a report on the College’s Archaeology Research Laboratory.

Visiting Lecturer Alana Newman will present the report at 7:30 p.m. April 18 in the Pattee Auditorium of the College’s Center for Science and Business. It is free and open to the public.

In 2010, the College received an anonymous donation of thousands of prehistoric Native American artifacts, including spear points, pottery sherds, ax heads and arrowheads. The collection represents human activity in western Illinois for the last 12,000 years.

The Monmouth College Archaeology Research Laboratory now houses this collection, which is one of the largest locally available for study. Students have been accessing and cataloging artifacts from this collection under the direction of four different lab directors.

Newman’s talk will set the collection within the chronological sweep of western Illinois prehistory, provide an overview – complete with videos – of current student lab work and preview future avenues of student collection management including website development, database management and community outreach programs.

New to Monmouth’s faculty this year, Newman earned her undergraduate degree in classical civilizations from Ohio University. She completed her graduate studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, receiving a master’s degree in classical art and archaeology and a doctorate in classics.