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UNC Asheville to Host Lecture, “Archaeology and the Small Town,” by Jane Eastman

September 14, 2011

Jane Eastman, director of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University, will deliver the Curtis Holliday lecture at UNC Asheville, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in the Ramsey Library.

Eastman’s current project is an Early Qualla (14th-15th century) community in Hayesville, N.C. She and her students have helped build an outdoor exhibit at the Clay County Museum that includes art, interpretive information, and a full-scale 18th century Cherokee homestead. Eastman’s lecture, “Archaeology and the Small Town: Cultural and Community Revitalization in Western North Carolina,” is free and open to the public.

The lecture is co-sponsored by the WNC chapter of the American Institute of Archaeology and UNC Asheville’s Department of Classics. For more information, contact Laurel Taylor at 828/251-6290 or visit classics.unca.edu.