North Carolina Museum of History issued the following announcement on January 12.
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Speaker: Dr. Charlie Ewen, Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, Phelps Archaeology Laboratory, East Carolina University
In 2018, North Carolina marked the 300th anniversary of the pirate Blackbeard’s demise with festivals, traveling exhibits, and lectures. That led the Charlotte Observer to question: Why would North Carolina celebrate a murdering scoundrel like Blackbeard? Surely celebrating murder and mayhem can’t be a good thing. Fortunately, archaeology gives us a legitimate opportunity to satisfy our guilty pleasure. By studying their shipwrecks and lairs, archaeologists have been able to recreate the real lives of pirates and those they preyed upon.
Ewen received his PhD at the University of Florida (1987). He joined the faculty at East Carolina University in 1994 and is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology as well as director of the Phelps Archaeology Laboratory. He is a past president of the Society for Historical Archaeology. His research interests focus mostly on historical archaeology (specifically the contact and colonial periods). However, like most archaeologists, Ewen has been led by circumstances to work on nearly every kind of archaeology site, from prehistoric villages to Civil War fortifications and 20th-century homesteads. While in North Carolina, Ewen has directed more than two decades of projects at such places as Tryon Palace Historic Sites and Gardens in New Bern, Fort Macon State Park, Historic Hope Plantation, Historic Bath, and Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson, and has documented African American cemeteries in eastern North Carolina.
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