Natchez Bluffs Archaeological Project

06/01/2024

I know it's been a while since you have heard from us, but Smith Creek is the the focus of a new article! Check it out in Southeastern Archaeology!

The archaeological record of the Lower Mississippi Valley represents a long history of Indigenous people making wide and variable use of the region’s exceptionally rich ecosystems. Often, archaeolo...

04/06/2023

Please join us in person at the Penn Museum OR virtually to learn about mounds as world heritage! Next Wednesday at 6:00!

Explore amazing art and artifacts from ancient Egypt, Greece and Italy, Mesopotamia, Asia, Africa, and the Americas and more at this world renowned museum.

03/02/2023

Starting tonight, some of our team member's are offering an online, four-part course focusing on the Key Marco site in Florida. It might be far from Smith Creek, but it's going to be super interesting! Register at the link below!

10/24/2022

Dr. Kassabaum is giving a talk tonight through the Exploring Joara Foundation in which Smith Creek will feature! It's a virtual lecture, so people can listen from afar! Register at the attached link if you're interested!

10/24/2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm - Meg Kassabaum is Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the Weingarten Associate Curator for North America at the Penn Museum. Her recent research has focused....

08/02/2022

Nearly a full page in the Sunday paper! (Featuring the photography of )

08/01/2022

Weekend o’backfilling is complete! These folks are complete beasts!

07/30/2022

Field season complete!!! This crew was utterly amazing today. We did about 4 days of work in 10 hours.

07/30/2022

Guess who found a feature on the last full day of excavation?? This girl!

07/28/2022

These folks made incredible progress in the Pumpkin Lake trench today. The last week crunch is upon us!!!

07/28/2022

Finished the first unit at Feltus yesterday! What a nice little profile!