FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2008
Contact: Jessica Wong
(662) 329-7119

Lieb to speak on Chickasaw history at Plymouth Bluff

COLUMBUS, Miss. – The Tombigbee Chapter of the Mississippi
Archeological Association and the Plymouth Bluff Center will sponsor
“Archaeology & Ethnohistory of the 18th-century Chickasaws” at the Plymouth Bluff Center this Sunday at 2 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.

The presentation will feature Brad Lieb, an anthropological and archaeological consultant for The Chickasaw Nation, who will speak on the topic of Chickasaw heritage including an account of the ill-fated French military excursion against the Chickasaws in 1763.

Lieb is an archeologist currently completing his doctorate through the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. He began his
study on anthropology with a focus on archaeology at Mississippi State
University from 1995-1999 and received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, magna cum laude, in 1999.

He assisted in salvaging the Chickasaw Immokakinafa Site in Tupelo in
1996 while working under John W. O’Hear at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology.

Throughout the past eight years, Lieb has worked as a research associate with O’Hear at the Cobb Institute at MSU and more recently as an archaeological consultant. While studying at the graduate level at University of Alabama from 1999-2001 and 2005-2007, he was involved in analyzing the Chickasaw archaeological findings around Tupelo.

His work focuses on Chickasaw archaeology and ethnohistory as featured
in his award-winning 2005 University of Alabama master’s thesis, “The Grand Village is Silent: An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Study of the Natchez Indian Refuge Among the Chickasaws in the Eighteenth Century.”

Currently, he is working to preserve Chickasaw heritage sites around Tupelo.