The Pitt County Historical Society will host a lecture on the pre-history of Pitt County on January 27, 2024 at 2pm. The lecture will be given by Dr. Randolph Daniel who is a professor of anthropology at East Carolina University. Dr. Daniel’s research interests include the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Southeastern United States, particularly hunter-gatherer adaptations at the end of the last Ice Age. Publications related to his research have appeared in two books, several book chapters, and in journals including American Antiquity, Current Research in the Pleistocene, Southeastern Archaeology, and North Carolina Archaeology. Dr. Daniel is also the recipient of the 1999 C.B. Moore Award for Excellence in Archaeology by a Young Scholar in Southeastern Studies by the Lower Mississippi Survey & Peabody Museum, Harvard.
The lecture will be held at the Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church (2601 E Fire Tower Rd, Greenville, NC 27858) at 2 pm on Saturday, January 27, 2024.