Nebraska Artifact Show

The Nebraska Artifact Show is collaberative effort among amateur and professional archaeologists, education institutions, federal and state agencies and the public. Each year exhibitors from approximately 8 states gather to display historic and prehistoric cultural material originating from the Great Plains.

The show is held annually in August at the Seward County Fairgrounds in Seward, Nebraska.

Speakers are selected from the professional archaeological community and have included:

2019 Dr. Marcel Kornfeld (University of Wyoming) - "The Hell Gap Phenomenon: 4,000 Years of Paleoindian Lifeways"

2018 Michael R. Fosha (South Dakota State Historical Society) - "Lost, Forgotten and Found: Cache Studies in South Dakota"

2017 Dr. Bonnie Pitblado (University of Oklahoma) - "Paloeindian Use of the Rocky Mountains: Higher and Earlier than You Thought"

2016 Dr. Phil Geib (Universtiy of Nebraska)- "How and Why Folsom Points were Fluted"

2015 Dr. Emily G. Williams - "Folsom Land Use Patterns in the Central Plains"

2014 Jeffrey J. Richner (Midwest Archeological Center) - "A Brief History of Glass Beads in the Indian Trade"

2013 John R. (Rob) Bozell (Nebraska State Historical Society) - "The Search for Engineer Cantonment"

2012 Dr. Brad Logan (Kansas State University) - "Late Prehistoric Sites: Current Research in North Central Kansas"

2011 Dr. Jack L. Hofman (University of Kansas) - "The Allen Complex in the Central Great Plains"

2010 Dr. Douglas Bamforth (University of Colorado) - "The Mahaffy Clovis-era Stone Tool Cache"

2009 Dr. Jason LaBelle (Colorado State University) - "Folsom and the Lindenmeier Site: Paleoindian Hunters on the Edge of the Rocky Mountains"

2008 Dr. Matthew Hill (Iowa State University) - "Paleoindian Occupation of Ash Hollow"

2007 Jeb Taylor (Jeb Taylor Artifacts) - "The Peopling of the Americas"

2007 Kenneth & Mollie Canyon (Midwest Archeological Center) - "The Challis Buffalo Kill Site"

2006 Dr. Larry Agenbroad - "The Hudsen-Meng Site: A 10,000 Year Bison Kill on the Nebraska High Plains"

2006 Dr. Douglas Scott (Midwest Archeological Center) - "Battlefield Archaeology: Artifact Recovery Using Metal Detectors"

2005 Dr. Steven R. Holen (Denver Museum of Nature & Science) - "Early Human Occupation of the Great Plains"