The Nebraska Artifact Show was collaberative effort among amateur and professional archaeologists, education institutions, federal and state agencies and the public. Each year exhibitors from approximately 8 states gathered to display historic and prehistoric cultural material originating from the Great Plains.
The show was held annually in August at the Seward County Fairgrounds in Seward, Nebraska.
Speakers were selected from the professional archaeological community and have included:
2024 Dave Williams (Nebraska State Archeologist) - The Massacre Canyon Oral Tradition and Archeology Project
2023 Dr. Todd Surovell (University of Wyoming) - The La Prele Mammoth Site: A Clovis Archaeological Site
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 St. 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