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January 5, 2005

Archeology Presentation Features Primitive Technologies

SIOUX FALLS - Primitive Technologies: Pathways to the Past is the title of the Third Sunday Archeology Presentation at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, January 16, in Gilbert Science Center room 100 on the campus of Augustana College. Gilbert Science Center is located at 33rd Street and Summit Avenue.

Rick Hamilton, founder of Spirit-in-the-Wind Enterprises in Stuart, Neb., leads the demonstration and illustrated lecture. The program is free and open to the public.

Spirit-in-the-Wind is a teaching facility dedicated to the preservation and re-discovery of prehistoric and historic Plains Native American skills and cultures. Hamilton works with Native Americans and conducts extensive research of archeological records and his own experimental archeology to produce historically accurate replicas as well as the skills of a particular culture. He will demonstrate primitive technologies such as bow and arrow fabrication, fire-making, and traditional hide-tanning.

This program is funded in part by Augustana College's Mellon Fund Committee. Co-sponsors are the Sioux Falls Chapter of the South Dakota Archaeological Society and Augustana College's Archeology Laboratory.