FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT:  (Apologies for multiple postings)
 
EASTERN STATES ROCK ART RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
Third Annual Eastern States Rock  Art Conference (ESRAC)
May 24-26, 1996
University of Maine-Machias
 
 
For Conference registration and information, call/write:
 
Mark Hedden, Maine Historic Preservation Commission
55 Capitol Street, State House Station #65
Augusta ME  04333
207.287.5726 (office)    207.293.2075 (home)
 
(On-site registration is available.)
 
 
For accommodations reservations and information, call/write:
 
Director, Office of Special Programs
University of Maine-Machias, 9 O'Brien Avenue
Machias ME  04654
207.255.3313 (office)     207.255.4864 (fax)
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(Most registrants are staying on-campus at the dorms.)
 
 
For ESRARA membership questions, call/write:
 
Dr. Carol Diaz-Granados, Faculty in Anthropology
Washington University, Campus Box 1114
St. Louis MO 63130
314.935.5252 (office)    314.935.8535 (fax)    314.721.0386 (home)
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Connections to Bangor ME (the nearest airport) can be made on many air carriers
from eastern seaboard cities, try Continental through Newark.   Northwest also
has commuter connections.    Many folks are coming into Bangor the afternoon of
Thursday, May 23rd and then carpooling into Machias.
 
The program of presentations includes a review of ceremonial rock art in
Alabama; studies in Maine's rock art inheritance; a strong Midwestern focus on
rock art findings in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota;
interpretive discussions on imagery; and a special concluding presentation by
David Lowe, University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the destruction by vandalism and
theft of the Gottschall Site, Wisconsin's premier pictograph site, and the
response to that tragedy by the formation under the direction of the State
Archaeologist of a Native American Rock Art Preservation Task Force.
 
 
dmk/May 5, 1996
 
 
 
 
Deborah Morse-Kahn, M.A.
Regional Historian & Archivist
(Avocational Archaeologist)
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