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August 19, 2024
Central KY Native American History
The discussion will be led by A. Gynn Henderson education director at the Kentucky Archaeological Survey, a program of Western Kentucky University’s Department of Society, Culture, Crime and Justice Studies.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, at 2 p.m.
at the Mercer County Public Library, Harrodsburg
After laying to rest the myths that continue to circulate about Kentucky’s ancient Native Peoples, Henderson will discuss Kentucky's
Native history from the arrival of Indigenous groups around 11,000 BC to their forced Removal in the early 1800s. She will draw on information from archaeological research in central Kentucky – particularly research carried out at archaeological sites in Mercer County – as well as from historical and ethnohistorical sources.
Henderson has a Ph.D. in anthropology from UK. Her archaeological research focuses on the ancient Native American farming cultures of the middle Ohio Valley. As a public archaeologist, she works with others to make information about Kentucky’s rich archaeological heritage accessible to a wide audience. A writer of children’s nonfiction, her book for adult literacy students, “Kentuckians Before Boone,” has been used in Kentucky classrooms.
The event is free and the public is welcome!
