Smithsonian scientists and guest speakers give public lectures on topics within the fields of Anthropology, such as Archaeology, Linguistics, Ethnology, and Biological Anthropology.
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
View Dr. Yolanda Moses, chief curator for the development of the exhibition, RACE: Are We So Different?, speak about the creation of the exhibition. Dr. Yolanda T. Moses is a Professor of Anthropology, Universy of California Riverside and the Co-Chair of the National Advisory Committee for the American Anthropological Association RACE Project.
Discovered near Kensington, Minnesota, by Olof Ohman in 1898, the Kensington Runestone, a 200lb slab of grey rock covered on one side of runes, has been the subject of scholarly debate for over a century. If real, the Kensington Runestone would change history and suggest Scandinavian explorers reached the middle of North America earlier then scientists think---as early as the 14th century. This lecture is presented by Dr. Henrik Williams on 9/23/2010 in the Rose Room of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.