In the Fields of Time: the impact of two Kansas boys American Archeology.
On Display, Jan 07, 2020—February 01, 2020 and March 07, 2020—Mid-June, 2020.
“In the Fields of Time” is a traveling exhibition on Emil Haury and Waldo Wedel, two native Kansans whose archeological explorations of the American southwest and the Great Plains have shaped our understanding of American prehistory.
Emil W. Haury (1904-92), nicknamed “the dean” of Southwest archeology, and Waldo R. Wedel (1908-96), the “father” of Plains archeology, both traced their interest in prehistory to boyhood experiences along Sand Creek in North Newton. Those experiences led them to life-long careers as professional archeologists with international reputations. Haury served on the faculty at the University of Arizona and directed the Arizona State Museum, while Wedel spent his life-long career at the Smithsonian Institution.
The exhibition tells the story of Haury and Wedel in the context of doing archeology in the United States.
Emil W. Haury (1904-92), nicknamed “the dean” of Southwest archeology, and Waldo R. Wedel (1908-96), the “father” of Plains archeology, both traced their interest in prehistory to boyhood experiences along Sand Creek in North Newton. Those experiences led them to life-long careers as professional archeologists with international reputations. Haury served on the faculty at the University of Arizona and directed the Arizona State Museum, while Wedel spent his life-long career at the Smithsonian Institution.
The exhibition tells the story of Haury and Wedel in the context of doing archeology in the United States.
Waldo R. Wedel
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Emil W. Haury
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On Display, February 04, 2020—March 6, 2020
K is for Kansas uses an alphabet theme to explore the cultural and natural history of Kansas. The exhibit team chose words representing a Kansas person, place, thing, plant and animal for each letter of the alphabet with one “key” word receiving in-depth interpretation.
Our alphabet includes the state symbols that all Kansas children study, but also fun and curious facts about the state, and stories which are often overlooked. Our alphabet reflects who we are:
• Kansans who grew up in Kansas and Kansans who chose to move here
• Kansans who are parents, teachers, scientists, artists and museum professionals
• Kansans who love Kansas.
K is for Kansas is full of things to look at, to touch, to discover.
Our alphabet includes the state symbols that all Kansas children study, but also fun and curious facts about the state, and stories which are often overlooked. Our alphabet reflects who we are:
• Kansans who grew up in Kansas and Kansans who chose to move here
• Kansans who are parents, teachers, scientists, artists and museum professionals
• Kansans who love Kansas.
K is for Kansas is full of things to look at, to touch, to discover.
Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP) Field School - Tobias site (14RC8)
7/2/19
The annual KATP field school, a joint program between the Kansas Historical Society and the Kansas Anthropological Association, was held in Lyons at the Tobias archeological site from June 1 to June 16, 2019. A total of 196 participants contributed 7451.5 hours of their time to the project. The Tobias site was a village inhabited by the ancestral Wichita or Great Bend aspect people between about 1400 to 1700 CE and likely part of the region of Quivira encountered by Coronado during his 1541 expedition.
Principal Investigator Nikki Klarmann, Archeologist with the Kansas Historical Society, was interested in further exploring the day-to-day lives of the inhabitants of the Tobias site. Excavations conducted at the site focused on identifying residential areas and examining the use of midden or trash mounds. Multiple deep storage pits were identified, these would have stored corn and other food materials, once these pits were no longer used, they would be filled with trash. Artifacts recovered from excavations were processed at a lab set up at Lyons High School and ongoing analysis continues at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka.
Multiple evening programs took place during the 16 day project, including a tour of the Coronado Quivira Museum, Artifact Identification Night, and multiple speakers on the archeology of Rice and surrounding counties.
The information recovered from the excavations will eventually be written up in a summary available to the public through the Kansas Historical Society website. Plans for the 2020 KATP field school are underway and the location will be announced in early January 2020.
7/2/19
The annual KATP field school, a joint program between the Kansas Historical Society and the Kansas Anthropological Association, was held in Lyons at the Tobias archeological site from June 1 to June 16, 2019. A total of 196 participants contributed 7451.5 hours of their time to the project. The Tobias site was a village inhabited by the ancestral Wichita or Great Bend aspect people between about 1400 to 1700 CE and likely part of the region of Quivira encountered by Coronado during his 1541 expedition.
Principal Investigator Nikki Klarmann, Archeologist with the Kansas Historical Society, was interested in further exploring the day-to-day lives of the inhabitants of the Tobias site. Excavations conducted at the site focused on identifying residential areas and examining the use of midden or trash mounds. Multiple deep storage pits were identified, these would have stored corn and other food materials, once these pits were no longer used, they would be filled with trash. Artifacts recovered from excavations were processed at a lab set up at Lyons High School and ongoing analysis continues at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka.
Multiple evening programs took place during the 16 day project, including a tour of the Coronado Quivira Museum, Artifact Identification Night, and multiple speakers on the archeology of Rice and surrounding counties.
The information recovered from the excavations will eventually be written up in a summary available to the public through the Kansas Historical Society website. Plans for the 2020 KATP field school are underway and the location will be announced in early January 2020.
Archaeological Collections Curation Project
The completion of the 2017-2018 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant has meant positive outcomes for RCHS’s Great Bend Aspect collections. The Quivirans were part of this archaeological grouping. You will find excerpts from the final report by Dr. Lauren W. Ritterbush, Kansas State University on our Quivira page.
The completion of the 2017-2018 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant has meant positive outcomes for RCHS’s Great Bend Aspect collections. The Quivirans were part of this archaeological grouping. You will find excerpts from the final report by Dr. Lauren W. Ritterbush, Kansas State University on our Quivira page.