International Archaeology Day
at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Saturday, October 21,
11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Celebrate the Penn
Museum’s newest exhibition Moundbuilders: Ancient Architects of North America,
and learn more about the real work of archaeology, in North America and around
the world at this special event co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of
America Philadelphia Society. Meet archaeologist and Moundbuilders curator
Megan Kassabaum and other Penn Museum researchers. Take a behind-the-scenes
tour of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM), where
archaeologists and other scholars are making new discoveries about the ancient
past via analyses of ceramics, metallurgy, faunal and skeletal remains, and
more.
For further
information, please consult the Penn Museum website.
