New Acadia Project focus of talk at Jeanerette Museum

The Jeanerette Museum is celebrating Archaeology Month by hosting a talk on the New Acadia Project led by Mark Rees of the University of Louisiana Lafayette. This free talk will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 12.
The New Acadia Project is a research effort designed to locate, identify and investigate the homesteads and unmarked gravesites of Acadian families that first arrived in Louisiana in 1765. Rees will discuss the project and the latest findings from samples taken from sites along the Teche Ridge to study the colony of New Acadia.
Rees is an archaeologist, director of the Louisiana Public Archaeology Lab, and Nalley Board of Regents Support Fund Professor of Social Sciences at the ULL. He holds a PhD in anthropology with a concentration in archaeology from the University of Oklahoma and an master’s in historical archaeology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Rees is editor of “Archaeology of Louisiana” (LSU Press, 2010), co-editor of “Plaquemine Archaeology” (University of Alabama Press, 2007), and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on archaeology in Louisiana and the Southeast. His recent publications include co-authored works on the Portage Mounds site (Louisiana Archaeology 2015) and Troyville mound site (The Archaeology of Events, University of Alabama Press, 2015).
He is currently directing an assessment of the effects of an oil spill on coastal archaeological sites.
The Jeanerette Museum located at 500 East Main St. The adult program has limited seating taken on a first come, first serve basis.
For information visit www.jeanerettemuseum.com or email jeanerettemuseum@yahoo.com or call 337-276-4408 Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.