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CAHOKIA MOUNDS MUSEUM SOCIETY: Guest Symposium by Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin

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Cahokia Mounds Museum Society issued the following announcement on March 1.

On March 10, we will be hosting a public symposium by Kulturveranstaltungen de Bundes in Berlin titled: Anthropocene. Archaeology of the Present. This is part of their project Mississippi: An Anthropocene River. 

The public symposium will begin at 11 am with the first talk “The Early Rise of North America’s Dominant Crop: The Spread of Maize” by Robert Spengler, Patrick Roberts. 

The remaining talks are: Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Indigenous Mississippian World, Lost Crops, Monsanto Town, and Significant and Insignificant Mounds. 

The talks will be followed by an open discussion at 12:30.

Original source can be found here.

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