The Etowah site today is a state park, but 650 years ago it was an Indigenous city with impressive monuments and beautiful art. Adam King, research associate professor at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, will reconstruct the city’s 500-year history using the imagery its inhabitants created: motifs on pottery, designs on decorated shell and copper, and the arrangement of buildings and monuments. Unlike the usual stuff of archaeology that tells us what people did, imagery is intentionally created to communicate ideas. In this talk anchored in imagery, King explores what Etowah’s inhabitants understood about themselves and their city. King will pull from the exhibition This Land Calls Us Home, on view at the Schatten Gallery, illustrating how ancient images continue to communicate about Indigenous belief, identity, and place.

This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Grace Welch Blanton Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the public, and registration is required.

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Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Place: Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum