First Friday Lecture Features Archeology Of The Ouachita Mountains
The National Park College (NPC) First Friday Lunch and Lecture will feature Dr. Mary Beth Trubitt who will present Archeology of the Ouachita Mountains. The event will be held October 6 at noon in Lab Science room 118 and is sponsored by the NPC Math and Sciences Division and Frito Lay.
Dr. Trubitt will discuss recent archeological projects at two local sites near Hot
Springs and Mount Ida that are providing new details on American Indian lifeways in
the Ouachita Mountains. Pottery from the excavations shows changing technologies and
styles through time, but there are also local variations that make each area distinctive.
This presentation will focus on the ways archeologists see community identity and
regional identity in the things that people made and used in the past.
Dr. Trubitt is the station archeologist at the Arkansas Archeological Survey Henderson State University research station in Arkadelphia, where she teaches anthropology courses, conducts research on American Indian archeology and history, and works with agencies, tribes, and local residents interested in historic preservation.
Dr. Trubitt is co-author of Caddo Connections: Cultural Interactions within and beyond the Caddo World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and editor of Research, Preservation, and Communication: Honoring Thomas J. Green on his Retirement from the Arkansas Archeological Survey (Arkansas Archeological Survey, 2016). She developed the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s “Arkansas Novaculite: A Virtual Comparative Collection” website, supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Trubitt earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Northwestern University in 1996.