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Mazique Mounds program topic at Grand Village
The Grand Village of the Natchez Indians will present an illustrated talk by Daniel LaDu entitled "Coles Creek and Plaquemine Settlement at the Mazique Mounds" in the museum auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, 2012.
Admission is free and seating is limited.
The Mazique mounds, named for a prominent local African American family, are located on private property about ten miles south of Natchez near U. S. Highway 61. Archaeologists and many Adams County residents have known about the mounds for a long time.
During the 1940s, entrepreneur Jefferson Davis Dickson operated a tourist attraction at the site called "White Apple Village;" however, the site has not been examined professionally until recent years. Daniel LaDu, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Alabama, completed his M.A. thesis on the Mazique site in 2009 and is currently studying the site for his PhD dissertation. "Coles Creek" and "Plaquemine" are archaeological terms for the prehistoric societies that constructed the Mazique mounds and held ceremonies there sometime between AD 700 and 1600.
LaDu received his BA in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked on archaeological sites in the Natchez area since 2006 and has collaborated on projects in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Cuba.
From 2010 to 2012, he served as Laboratory Director for the University of Alabama's Gulf Coast Archaeological Survey. LaDu is a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies and has assisted with the preservation work at the Watkins Street Cemetery in Natchez.
This will be an informative and entertaining program. Light refreshments will be served.
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