Join Dr. Timothy Everhart for a presentation, April 16, 6 p.m. at Ohio University Chillicothe, Bennett Hall, Room 110.
Warren King Moorehead is among the most noteworthy and notorious figures in the early history of American Archaeology. Over the course of his career, he led excavations at many of the best-known Indigenous heritage places in North America, including Cahokia, Fort Ancient, Pueblo Bonito, and Hopewell Mound Group, to name just a few. During his life and in the time since, his career has attracted an amount of assessment that stands in disproportion to the biographical attention it has received. Detailed historiographical attention is critical for several reasons. Foremost is the need by archaeologists, museum professionals, and Tribal heritage practitioners to establish the specific contexts of Moorehead’s work and assess its impacts on Indigenous heritage. Additionally, Moorehead’s career is perhaps the most illuminating case study for understanding the discipline’s period of professionalization. This presentation will discuss Moorehead’s early career, with particular attention to his 1891-1892 work at the Hopewell Mound Group.

Free and Open to the Public