The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center’s monthly Brown Bag lecture scheduled for Noon on Wednesday, May 12 in the Temporary Exhibit Gallery will feature Don Wyckoff. Dr. Wyckoff will lecture on “Mid Holocene Hunter Gatherers in Oklahoma.” Dr Wyckoff is a transformative figure in the world of archeology and anthropology and led an excavation in the 1980’s at the “Burnham Site” in Freedom, Oklahoma. At that site a skull and tools were found indicating that humans had likely lived in the plains long before previously thought. This caused scientists to rethink the popularly held “land bridge” notion, and consider that many migrations of people took place over time.
Wyckoff is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, and serves as the Curator of Archeology at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman.
The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center is located at 507 S. 4th Street in Enid, Oklahoma. For additional information on this or other CSRHC programs, please call the Heritage Center at 580-237-1907.
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Fri, May 7, 2010
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