At 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, Robert Parker, archaeologist and tribal liaison with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, will present the lecture Archeology and the Black Experience. Parker will discuss the role played by African Americans in the development of American archaeology, including the discovery of what was then the oldest site linking human activity with extinct animals by an African American cowboy and the first reference to blues music in 1901.
