Celebrate MS Archaeology Month!
Join the MS Archaeology Association for this hands-on event at MDWFP’s Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson designed for school-aged children and adults.
Enjoy:
• Artifact Identification and Displays
• Atlatl Demonstrations (Spear throwing)
• Prehistoric Technology Stations
• Crafts
• Food Trucks
• Museum exhibits & “Dinosaurs Around the World” Exhibit, and more!
The Expo is the Mississippi Archaeological Association’s annual free, family-friendly event that celebrates Mississippi Archaeology Month and helps to educate the public on archaeology and American Indian cultural heritage in Mississippi. In addition to meeting Choctaw representatives and seeing lifeway displays, visitors will enjoy artifact identification and displays, atlatl demonstrations (spear throwing), prehistoric technology stations, crafts, and expert lectures at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. featuring Mississippi’s Ice Age megafauna and the American southeast at the end of the Ice Age. Visitors will meet representatives from the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Archaeological Conservancy, and the National Park Service. Food trucks will also be on-site, not included with Expo admission.
This program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Mississippi Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
