Department of Anthropology's 45th Annual Visiting Lecture Series presents Dr. Charles Cobb, Lockwood Professor of Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, " Archaeology and the Topology of Erasure"

Deliberate strategies of social amnesia tend to be underplayed in studies of memory. The American Southeast provides a useful vantage point for exploring how acts of forgetting may be mediated through space. Beginning ca. 1000 C.E. Mississippian peoples continually reconstituted their histories through selective landscape practices of remembrance and erasure. With the arrival of European colonialism, their histories became increasingly subjected to a structural silence.