Dr. Al Luckenbach to be Keynote Banquet Speaker at the 74th Annual Meeting (2014) of the Archeological Society of Virginia. ****************************************************************** Dr. Luckenbach will speak to the excavation of the prehistoric Pig Point Site – a deeply stratified site spanning over 10,000 years of human occupation. Among other discoveries, this site has produced evidence of the earliest known structures in Maryland, and nearly a millennia of ritual mortuary activity associated with the Delmarva Adena. The site has been occupied for thousand s of years as a village of base camp and has extensive evidence of diachronic change due to fluctuations in the salinity of the river, changes in climate, and concomitant changes in available flora and fauna. The site was most heavily used between A.D. 1100 to A.D. 1300 at which time the site was abandoned. Dr. Luckenbach has held the position of County Archaeologist for Anne Arundel County, Maryland since 1988. As part of the Department of Planning and Zoning, his main responsibilities involve the review of proposed development in order to protect and study the countys archaeological resources. He has published on a wide range of research interests, including such diverse topics as prehistoric soapstone bowls, Aztec languages, ancient Greek coins, and the uniforms of the Republic of Texas. As director of the countys Lost Towns Project, Luckenbach has been conducting research and excavations at three seventeenth-century towns – Providence (1649), Herrington (ca 1650), and London Town (1683) since 1990. He has produced numerous publications as a result of this work, mostly centering on the ceramics and architectural forms discovered at these settlements. Dr. Luckenbach received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology/archaeology from the University of Kentucky. He has taught at the University of Kentucky and the University of Texas at Dallas. ****************************************************************** Please visit the ASV website to learn more about the annual meeting, membership, fieldwork opportunities, and much, much more. asv-archeology.org/
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