TAARS featured speaker David Stothers, Ph.D.
Media release
The Toledo Area Aboriginal Research Society will feature a presentation by David Stothers, Ph.D. at it’s January 28, 2010 meeting to be held at 7:00 p.m in the Manor House at Wildwood Metropark, Central Ave., Toledo, Ohio. The presentation is free and open to the public.
The topic of his talk is: The Dawn of Prehistory in Ohio: The Introduction of European Trade Goods into the Western Lake Erie Basin and Beyond Through Established Native Trade Routes.
This presentation provides a third proposal for a trade route into the interior of the US and Canada. This route down the St. Lawrence and through the lower Great Lakes to villages like the Indian Hills site in Rossford, Ohio and beyond. This route was an ancient native trade route that brought European trade items into the interior of the Northeast of what became the United States and Canada, which in some cases was mor that 100 years before Europeans were to set foot in these areas.
Dr. Stothers is a professor of Anthropoloyg at the University of Toledo, Director of the Wester Lake Erie Archaeological Research Program (WLEARP) at the University of Toledo, and Director of the Firelands Archaeological Research Centr (FARC) at the Amherst Historical Society in Amherst, Ohio.
Please direct any questions to Kathi Sund at 419-893-4213
Press Release Contact Name: Kathi Sund
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Organization Name: Toledo Area Aboriginal Research Society
Organization Address: P.O. Box 60207, Rossford, OH, 43466