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For Immediate Release					January 20, 1997
 
 Lawrence University Anthropologist Explains Hows, Whys of Archaeology  
 
 
APPLETON, WIS. -- Ronald Mason, professor emeritus of anthropology at Lawrence
University, offers a primer on the nature of archaeology and its role in the
Lawrence curriculum in a Appleton Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America lecture Wednesday, January 29 in the Worcester Auditorium of Lawrence's
Wriston Art Center.  

Mason will deliver the lecture/slide presentation, "Archaeology and its History
at Lawrence," at 7:30 p.m.   The event is free and open to the public.  An
informal reception will follow the lecture.

A specialist in American archaeology, particularly of the Great Lakes, Mason
will explain what archaeology is, what kinds of archaeology there are and how
archaeology has been represented in the Lawrence curriculum from its
introduction in the 1940s to the present. Mason also will show slides of
Lawrence's major archaeology excavation site on Rock Island in Door County.

Mason was a member of the Lawrence anthropology department from 1961 until his
retirement in 1995.