Abstract: Described as “merchants of astonishment, peddlers of the strange” by Clifford Geertz in 1985, anthropologists have, for the most part, accepted their lot in academia and embraced the subject matter with aplomb. Perhaps what has been described as “having fun” is nothing more than doing what we do best – studying ourselves. One subfield in anthropology, archaeology, has been referred to as the “glitzy” part of the discipline. After all, Hollywood stars have come out of films that show the excitement of discovery. For the past three years, faculty and students (some seasoned and some not-so-seasoned) at Normandale have been diligently working at an archaeological site in southwestern Minnesota on a pre-Contact and post-Contact site. This site is now a registered archaeological site with the State of Minnesota. Our archaeological finds so far, along with plans for future excavation and evaluation at this site, will be shared with others at this colloquium.
Presenter Bio:
Susan Krook completed Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1992. She started teaching Anthropology part time at Normandale in 1990 while she was working as a research associate and medical anthropologist at the University of Minnesota's Medical School and completing her dissertation. Susan grew up in Minnesota, attended Edina schools and eventually found her way to Colorado with her husband and three children. She has been fascinated with archaeology since she was a young girl, going to the St. Paul Science Museum many times to stare at the Egyptian mummy that was and still is on display there. Susan taught in California for two years beginning in 2002 and she returned to Minnesota in 2004 after she learned that she was not a California girl. Since her return in 2004, she has been teaching full-time at Normandale in many areas of this broad discipline, but her true love has come back to her in the form of an exciting archaeological discovery in southwestern Minnesota.
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