Sedona AZ (March 14, 2014) – The next archaeology lecture sponsored by the Verde Valley Archaeology Center will be Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. in the Sedona Creative Life Center, 333 Schnebly Hill Road, Sedona. Archaeologist Don Keller will present a talk on his recent trip to the Big Island of Hawaii to study its archaeology.
Fifteen hundred years of human history and adaptation on the Big Island of Hawai’i have left a unique archaeological record on the island’s landscape. An informal photographic tour and commentary will present aspects and contexts of this adaptation now visible throughout the island. One of the youngest landscapes on the planet, the range of Hawaiian environments from volcano tops to ocean depths is remarkable in its diversity and variety of characteristics. The distribution of resources was reflected in the development of strong and complex chiefdoms organizing the people of the islands and, after European and American contact, integration into a global economy.
Don Keller spent fifteen years with the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Archaeology Department, Flagstaff, and continues to consult on a variety of projects. His fascination with the Southwest began during graduate studies in the 1970s, when he spent several summers with the Cedar Mesa Project in southeastern Utah.
The public is welcome to this free lecture.
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