"Connecting Currents: Archaeological Perspectives on Atlantic Africa and Africatown
1650-1860 A.D."
7:00 p.m.
Delchamps Archaeology Building at the University of South Alabama.

Talk presented by Dr. Neil Norman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology from College of William & Mary, is also teaching a summer archaeological field school in "Africatown", just north of Mobile. They are recording unmarked graves in Africatown Cemetery and excavations at the Peter Lee house site across from the cemetery. Peter Lee, also known as Gumpa, was a Dahomean court official who was one of survivors of the Clotilde, the last ship to bring slaves from Africa to the United States, arriving in Mobile in autumn of 1859.

Co-sponsored by the Southwest Chapter of the Alabama Archaeological Society and USA's Center for Archaeological Studies.

Free and open to all. For more info call 460-6562.