June Meeting

GSCOAS  Monthly Meeting
Australian Archaeology
by
Dr. James Smith
June 26th at 2PM
at the Museum of the Great Plains
601 NW Ferris Avenue
Lawton OK 73507
 
The Greater Southwest Chapter of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society (GSCOAS) will have its regular monthly meeting and program June 26th at 2pm at the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton Oklahoma. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. James Smith, an Australian archaeologist who now resides at Okeene, Oklahoma.  Dr. Smith is a cultural resources (archaeological) consultant and a designer/builder of web sites.

Dr. Smith will present a slide show on Australian archaeology.  In his own words, "Australian Aborigines have lived in Australia from the Dreamtime (the time of creation). They don't care about dating methods or how long archaeologists say they have lived on this island continent; forever means forever.

In this time they have left traces of their lifeways all over the country from single stone artifacts to massive shell middens and stone arrangements to amazing galleries of art.

In this talk I'd like to take you on an archaeological/anthropological tour of my home. While I'll try to cover as much of the country as possible, you have to keep in mind that Australia is almost the same size as the continental USA!"
 
Dr. Smith was educated at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in archaeology and anthropology; a BA Honors (similar to our Master of Arts degree) in anthropology and archaeology; and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in archaeology.  His interest include databases, geographic information systems (GIS), and Global Positioning System (GPS) as applied to archaeology.  He is also fascinated by stone tool technology, especially the use of stone tool manufacturing characteristics as time markers for artifacts found on the surface.
 
The meeting is free and open to the public.