UWL Campus News
2019 MVAC Public/High School/Middle School Field School
July 24, 2019Link to photos. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center 2019 Field School conducted excavations within the Goose Island campground in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Eighteen high school students and adults participated along with 14 middle schoolers and 7 UWL student volunteers. …
Local archaeologist dig up history
July 19, 2019WXOW
Local students learn about area history at Archaeology Field School in La Crosse
July 19, 2019WKBT-TV
UW-La Crosse workshops bring Egypt back to life
July 16, 2019Unearthing a Living Past
July 1, 2019You can read about MVAC in “Unearthing a Living Past” an article in the June/July 2019 issue of Coulee Region Women magazine. Link to read the article.
Touching the Distant Past
July 1, 2019In the June/July 2019 issue of Coulee Region Women magazine there is an article by Christine Hall, a UWL Archaeology graduate. The article entitled “Touching the Distant Past” describes area sites to explore this summer including information about MVAC. Link…
Science camps keep kids learning in the summer
June 24, 2019See MVAC’s Connie Arzigian in the WKBT TV piece about UWL’s Girls in Science and Boys’ Science Exploration programs where Connie taught Making Bones Speak classes. Link to WKBT piece.
Bill Gresens’ archaeology fiction book review cited in Amazon Review
June 24, 2019MVAC’s own archaeology fiction book reviewer, Bill Gresens’ was cited at length in the Amazon Reviews section for Tim Pelkey’s book The Baljuna Covenant. Link to check out Bill’s reviews to find a good summer read.
UWL Archaeology and Anthropology Department Faculty Updates
June 19, 2019Heather Walder, Archaeology and Anthropology, co-authored the article “Reconsidering the Chronology: Carbonized Food Residue, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Dates, and Compositional Analysis of a Curated Collection from the Upper Great Lakes” in “American Antiquity” published on June 9 by the Society…