Our next meeting will be on January 26, 2025

January, February, March Meetings

By Zoom and Facebook Only

Due to Chicago weather often making travel inconvenient.

The meeting will start with the Annual Business Meeting

of the 

Chicago Archaeological Society

Followed by Program

"The End on Hopewell and the Beginning of Fort Ancient:

Comparing Middle Woodland and Late Woodland Projectiles 

at the 

Turner and Turpin Sites in Southwest Ohio"

More later as we receive abstract and biography information.

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https://www.chicagoarchaeologicalsociety.com/news

October 27,  2024

The talk is now available on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoArchaeologicalSociety/videos/1879246875898398

A New Theory of the Mayan Collapse:

It Didn’t Happen

By Dr. Anne Pyburn 

The collapse of Maya civilization is one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. Innumerable books and articles about this cataclysm have been written and scholarly debate continues to appear in periodicals from Science Magazine to the New York Times. But what exactly is meant by the term “collapse” – what events are really recorded by the changes archaeologists seen in the archaeological record. And who exactly were “the Maya”? Were they a unified culture, a single civilization, or something more unlike early European civilizations, and possibly something even more interesting and relevant to the challenges to the modern world? 

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