Presentation: Water Spirits and Thunderers: Mound Building in Central Wisconsin a presentation by Ray Reser
Wed, Mar 17
|Lincoln Center
Ray will outline the deep presence of Native peoples along the Wisconsin River locally, and how Indigenous ideas of place, naming, and mutual co-existence with landscape features and resources drove prehistoric interactions we should strive to remember and understand today
Time & Location
Mar 17, 2027, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Lincoln Center, 1519 Water St, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA
About the event
A little bit about Ray Reser: Ray P. Reser completed his Ph.D. in Archaeology and Paleo-Anthropology from Australian National University. He was a Ph.D. Scholar with the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, North Australian Research Unit, as well as a Researcher with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Since 1985 Ray has been conducting archaeological survey and fieldwork projects in the Western Great Lakes, Australia, New Mexico, and Utah.
Dr. Reser’s interests include Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers in Australia and North America, rock art studies, lithic technology and sourcing, and the use of indigenous knowledge, sense of place, and origin stories to inform the archaeological record.
All our presentation programs are Free and Open to the Public delivered hybrid in person at the Lincoln Center, Stevens Point and on Zoom:
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0lMh2wSkTaugZozGdxVuzA