Artifacts
To see some of the artifacts MVAC has recovered, click on a letter then click on an artifact.
- Abrader
- Adze
- Adze - Trihedral
- Agate Basin
- Agate Basin – Isolated Find
- Annular Ware Waste Bowl – Lessard
- Annular Ware Whiteware Pitcher - Lessard
- Anomalous Globular Vessel – Chevrons or Zig-Zags
- Anomalous Globular Vessel – Sunburst
- Anomalous Sherds – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Antler – Scored
- Antler and Antler Points
- Antler Points
- Arrow Making – Video
- Arrow Shaft Abrader - Bar Abrader
- Artifact – What happens to an artifact once an archaeologist finds it?
- Awl, Copper
- Axe
- Axe – Full Grooved
- Axe Preform
- Axes and Celts
- Ball and Shot
- Bar Abrader – Arrow Shaft Abrader
- Beads
- Beam - Wooden
- Beamers – Deer Bone
- Bears and Wolves
- Beaver
- Biface Refit
- Bird – Carved Shale-Like Stone
- Birdstones/Bannerstones
- Bison
- Bison Horn Core
- Bison Scapula Hoe
- Bison Scapula Hoes
- Bison Scapula Hoes - Video
- Bone – Worked Animal – A Bead in the Making?
- Bone Grease
- Bone Needles
- Bone Ornament – Second Fort Crawford
- Bone Pendant
- Bone Tool Caches
- Bone Whistle
- Bones – What’s In This Jar??
- Bottle - John Wyeth & Brother
- Bottles – Sewing Machine Oil
- Boxes and Boxes!
- Brice Prairie Phase, Brice Prairie Trailed
- Brice Prairie Phase, Brice Prairie Trailed, v. festoon
- Brice Prairie Phase, Brice Prairie Trailed, v. zig-zag
- Brice Prairie Phase, Perrot Punctate, v. Inner Lip
- Bromo-Seltzer Bottle
- Brooch
- Buckle
- Buckles
- Button – Great Coat
- Button – Ordnance Officer’s
- Button - Scripted or Foliated “I” Button - Second Fort Crawford
- Buttons – Military
- Buttons – Pearl
- Cahokia
- Calf Weaner
- Catfish
- Catfish Cleithrums
- Catlinite Bear
- Catlinite Counter
- Catlinite Pipe – Midway Village
- Catlinite Pipe Bowl – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Catlinite Tablet
- Celt
- Celts and Axes
- Ceramic Spoons
- Chamber Pot – Ironstone Molded
- Chamber Pots
- Champagne Bottle
- Chert Projectile Point
- Chunkey Stone
- Chunkey/Discoidal
- Clay Pipe – Woodland
- Clay Pipe – Woodland – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Clay Pipe, Fluted - Lessard
- Clay Pipes – Historic
- Clay Pipes – Historic Logging Camp
- Clovis
- Coin – 1827 Republica Mexicana
- Copper Artifacts – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Copper Awl
- Copper Beads
- Copper Pendant
- Copper Points
- Copper Serpent
- Copper Sheet and Bead
- Cordage Analysis from Pottery
- Corduroy Road
- Corn Kernels
- Corncob
- Cow Skull
- Crowfoot Hooks for the Harvest of Freshwater Mussels
- Decanter
- Deer Bones – Bone Grease
- Dime – Second Fort Crawford
- Discoidal
- Discoidal/Chunkey
- Dog
- Dog Skull in Oneota Feature - OT
- Domestic Dogs in Precontact North America Societies
- Drill
- Drills, Stone - Video
- Durst Point Base
- Durst Stemmed
- Eggshell
- Elk Antler Hoe
- Elk Antlers
- Elk Astragalus – Carved
- Elk Pelvis with Embedded Projectile Point
- Elk Scapula Hoe
- Enameled Cookware
- End Scrapers
- Etched Stone Square
- Figurine – Clay
- Fish Bones
- Fish Bones – Otoliths, Pharyngeal Arch
- Fish Hook – Copper
- Flute/Whistle
- Food Utensil
- Foundation – Limestone
- Game Pieces – Second Fort Crawford
- Glass Beads
- Graver
- Great Coat Button
- Gun Flint Caps
- Hand-Painted Porcelain Teacups - Lessard
- Hand-Painted Whiteware – Lessard
- Hand-Painted Whiteware Saucers with Sprig Design - Lessard
- Harpoon and Netsinkers
- Hat Pin
- Hinges
- Historic Artifacts – Logging Camp
- Historic Ceramics – Transfer Printing
- Historic Solstice-Marking Petroglyph in Perrot State Park
- Historic Toys
- Hoes – Bison Scapula - Video
- Horn Core – Bison
- Ink Well Bottles
- Ironstone – Molded Saucer - Lessard
- Ironstone Molded Chamber Pot
- Is it an Artifact? Bone Tools - Video
- Is it an artifact? Chipped Stone: Characteristics of an Artifact - Video
- Is it an artifact? Chipped Stone: Cultural versus Natural - Video
- Is it an artifact? How to Recognize Pottery – Video
- Is it an artifact? Pottery Decoration – Video
- Is it an artifact? Groundstone Tools versus Natural Stones – Video
- Jesuit Ring
- Jewelry Box
- Kaolin Clay Pipe
- Kessell Points
- Kessell Side Notched-like Point
- Knife – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Knives
- Kramer Point
- Lanceolate Blade
- Lead and Pewter Military Buttons
- Lice Combs
- Limestone Foundations
- Lithic Artifacts – La Crosse County, WI
- Logging Camps – Personal Items
- Madison Triangular
- Mammoths and Mastodons – Video
- Mano
- Mano and Metate
- Mano and Metate - Video
- Marine Shell
- Mastodon Ulna
- Mastodons and Mammoths
- Medicine Bottle - “WONDER WORKER”
- Medicine Bottle – Lessard
- Medicine Bottles
- Metate
- Metate and Mano
- Metate and Mano – Video
- Military Buttons
- Mini Pot
- Mississippian Sherds – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Moccasin
- Mussels in the Upper Midwest - Video
- Net Sinker – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Netsinkers and Harpoon
- Oneota Ceramics
- Oneota Pot
- Oneota Pot – Sand Lake Archaeological District - Video
- Oneota Pot Sherds – Overhead
- Oneota Pot Sherds, Burned - Pammel Creek
- Oneota Pottery - Anomalous Globular Vessel – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Pottery - Koshkonong Bold - Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Oneota Pottery - Midway Incised – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Oneota Pottery – Non-local Motif
- Oneota Pottery - Perrot Punctate Variant – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Pottery – Rim and Shoulder, Handle
- Oneota Pottery – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Oneota Rim Sherd – Pammel Creek
- Oneota Vessel – La Crosse County
- Oneota Vessel – Meier Farm
- Oneota Vessel 108 – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Vessel 13
- Oneota Vessel 23 – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Vessel 29
- Oneota Vessel 30
- Oneota Vessel 44 – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Vessel 46 – Onalaska
- Oneota Vessel 55
- Oneota Vessel 57 – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Vessel 69 – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Vessel 80 – Sanford Archaeological District
- Oneota Vessel 83
- Pammel Creek Phase, Allamakee Trailed, v. bold
- Pammel Creek Phase, Koshkonong Bold, v. bold
- Pammel Creek Phase, Midway Incised, v. bold
- Pammel Creek Phase, Pammel Creek Trailed
- Pammel Creek Phase, Perrot Punctate, v. bold
- Pearl Buttons
- Pearlware Transfer Print Platter
- Pearlware, Hand-Painted
- Pendant – Bone
- Pendant – Copper
- Percussion Caps
- Pewter and Lead Military Buttons
- Pipe – Basalt
- Pipe – Copper Tubing
- Pipe - Eagle – Second Fort Crawford
- Pipe – Historic Clay
- Pipe – Historic Effigy
- Pipe - Stub-Stemmed - Second Fort Crawford
- Pipe – Woodland Clay
- Pipe – Zachary Taylor Campaign
- Pipestone Bear
- Pipestone Counter
- Pipestone Pipe – Midway Village
- Pipestone Pipe Bowl – Sanford Archaeological District
- Pipestone Pipe Stem
- Pipestone Tablet
- Pottery Reconstruction
- Pottery Reconstruction – Video
- Preservation - What Preserves Underground? - Video
- Pressed Glass Bowl
- Preston Corner-Notched
- Privy Ceramics
- Projectile Point – Durst/Preston
- Projectile Point – Quartz
- Projectile Points
- Projectile Points – Largest, Smallest
- Projectile Points – Medary Site
- Raddatz/Osceola
- Rasp
- RATTLESNAKE!
- RATTLESNAKE! Part II
- Redware Preserve Jar
- Rim Radius - Video
- Rock Art – Portable – Pipestone Tablet
- Rock Art – Portable – Sandstone Carving
- Sandstone Pendant
- Scrapers – Sand Lake Archaeological District
- Sedge
- Seeds – Blackberry
- Serrated Point
- Shell – Drilled
- Shell – Worked
- Shell Scoop
- Sleigh Bell
- Spoon-Like Clay Vessel
- St. Charles
- Stemmed Point
- Steuben/McCoy/Monona
- Stoneware Jug/Storage Vessel
- Stove Parts
- Sturgeon
- TD Pipe – Lessard
- Thatch
- Throwback Thursday – 1980 Overhead Open House
- Throwback Thursday – 1980s Overhead Excavations
- Throwback Thursday – 1986 Sand Lake Archaeological District – Water Screening
- Throwback Thursday – 1988 Midway Village – Excavation - Screening
- Throwback Thursday – 1988 Midway Village - Search for Features
- Throwback Thursday - 1988 Midway Village Excavation – Video
- Throwback Thursday – 1988 Midway Village Excavations
- Throwback Thursday – 1990s MVAC T-Shirt Indian Cave
- Throwback Thursday – 1991 Sanford Archaeological District – Mussel Shell
- Throwback Thursday – 1991 Sanford Archaeological District – Oneota Vessel with Robert “Ernie” Boszhardt
- Throwback Thursday – 1991 Sanford Archaeological District – Urban Archaeology
- Throwback Thursday – 1991 Tremaine – Feature Stains
- Throwback Thursday – 1995 Archaeology Club T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday – 1996 UWL Archaeology Club T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday – 2002 Archaeology Club T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday – 2002 Meier Farm Excavation - Oneota Pottery
- Throwback Thursday – 2007 MVAC NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
- Throwback Thursday – 2007 MVAC Polo and Tank Top
- Throwback Thursday – 2011 MAC T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday - 2012 Highway 35, Onalaska
- Throwback Thursday - A Chunkey Stone and a Bottle
- Throwback Thursday – Atlatl Mishap
- Throwback Thursday – Cool Archaeology Hats: Part 1
- Throwback Thursday – Feline Supervisor
- Throwback Thursday – Guest Cup – Valley View Mall
- Throwback Thursday – Kathleen Brosius
- Throwback Thursday – La Crosse Area Archaeological Society and MVAC
- Throwback Thursday – Midway Village – 1988 Excavation – Pre-Drone
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 15th Anniversary T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 1980s T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 1990s T-shirt – Rock Art
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 1990s T-Shirt – Rud Bison
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 1990s T-Shirt – Samuel’s Cave Elk
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 2002 Logo T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 2010 T-Shirt – Dahl Pipe
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC 25th Anniversary T-Shirt
- Throwback Thursday – MVAC Early Logo – Oneota Pot
- Throwback Thursday - Old Friends
- Throwback Thursday – Overhead 1980 Excavation
- Throwback Thursday – Overhead 1980 Excavation 2
- Throwback Thursday - Remembering Friends
- Throwback Thursday – Sand Lake Archaeological District 2009
- Throwback Thursday – Shovel Test Mishap
- Timber Rattler
- Tinkling Cone
- Tobacco
- Toothbrush, Bone – Second Fort Crawford
- Torch – Birch Bark
- Toy Car
- Trade Earring
- Trade Pipe
- Transfer Print Whiteware - “Damascus” Pattern
- Transfer Print Whiteware – “Greyhound”
- Tumblers
- Turkeys and Trade
- Turtle
- Turtle Bones
- Valley View Phase, Allamakee Trailed, v. fine lip
- Valley View Phase, Koshkonong Bold, v. fine lip
- Valley View Phase, Midway Incised, v. fine lip
- Valley View Phase, Valley View Trailed
- Waubesa/Dickson
- Whiskey Flask
- Whistle/Flute
- Whiteware – Juvenile Cup
- Wild Rice
- Wine Bottle Seal
- Wolves and Bears
- Woodland Ceramics
- Woodland Points
- Woodland Pottery – Lane Farm
- Woodland Pottery – Madison Cord Impressed
- Woodland Pottery – Madison Punctated
- Woodland Pottery – Overhead
- Woodland Pottery – Overhead – Incised-Over-Cordmarked
- Woodland Pottery – Overhead – Linn Ware
- Woodland Pottery – Sand Lake Archaeological District – Angelo
- Woodland Pottery – Sand Lake Archaeological District – Madison Plain
- Woodland Pottery – Sand Lake Archaeological District – Prairie Ware
- Woodland Pottery – Sand Lake Archaeological District - Pseudo Collared
- Woodland Pottery – Sand Lake Archaeological District 1
- Woodland Pottery – Sand Lake Archaeological District 2
- Woodland Pottery (Havana Ware) – Overhead
- Woodland Pottery Concentration
- Worked Shell
- Woven Bag
- Yellowware Chamber Pot
- Yellowware Rockingham Baker
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