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>Date:    Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:36:54 -0000
>From:    "Kathleen E. Callum" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: VAS Contact Period Workshop
>
>EXPLORE THE CONTACT PERIOD
>A VERMONT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. WINTER WORKSHOP
>
>
>Saturday, February 22, 1997
>
>Conference Room at the Offices of the
>Green Mountain National Forest
>231 N. Main Street (W. Side of Route 7)
>Rutland, Vermont (USA)
>
>The Contact Period in the Northeast was a time-transgressive era of
sweeping changes.  Explore this era of turmoil and trade as documented in
historic and archeological records of Native American, French, English, and
Dutch sites.  Presentations by noted Contact Period researchers, accompanied
by rare hands-on laboratory opportunity to view characteristic artifacts and
replicas.
>
>8:30-9:00       Pre-registered participants pick-up workshop materials,
coffee, etc.
>
>9:00-10:00      Robert Grumet (Mid-Atlantic Region of the National Park
Service), author of Historic Contact:  Early Relations Between Indians and
Colonists in Northeastern North America, 1524-1783 will set the stage for
the Contact Period Workshop.
>
>10:00-10:20     Fred Wiseman (Johnson State College) has masterfully
replicated Abenaki cultural materials and arts, guided by historic
documents, illustrations, oral records, archeological examples, and=
 creativity.
>
>10:20-11:20     Interactive Discussion/Laboratory
>
>11:20-11:40     Peter Thomas (Consulting Archaeology Program, University of
Vermont) has researched Contact Period changes at Native American sites,
including Fort Hill.
>
>11:40-12:40     Lunch (on your own - meet at Sewards Family Restaurant
"back room" )
>
>12:40-1:40      Interactive Discussion/Laboratory
>
>1:40-2:00       Paul Huey (N.Y.S. Parks and Rec., Div. for Historic
Preservation) worked extensively in the Albany, New York area on Dutch
Contact Period Sites.
>
>2:00-3:00       Interactive Discussion/Laboratory
>
>3:00-3:20       Neill De Paoli (University of New Hampshire) has
investigated early British settlements such as Fort Pemaquid, Maine.
>
>3:20-4:20       Interactive Discussion/Laboratory
>
>4:20-4:40       Pierre-Jacques Ratio (Archeobec) offers a unique
perspective, including views of French continental sites, Native American
sites in Quebec, and early historic settlement of the Montreal area.
>
>4:40-5:40       Interactive Discussion/Laboratory
>
>Register Now!  Participation limited to 35.  Contact:  Sheila Charles:
(802) 757-4533 or [log in to unmask]   Checks for $40 ($35 for members)
made out to the Vermont Archaeological Society, Inc., c/o S. Charles, 9
Elmwood Drive, Rutland, Vermont 05701.  Winter Workshops=AE are an annual
program of the V.A.S. Inc. Education Committee.
>
>Kathleen E. Callum
>GEOARCH
>RD#2 Box 2429-1  Brandon VT 05733
>TEL/FAX (802) 247-8127
>
 
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