Posted 4:01 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Archaeology Field School students carefully remove dirt from a field near Holmen — uncovering a large piece of 500-year-old history.
[/caption]UW-La Crosse Archaeology Field School students carefully remove dirt from a field near Holmen — uncovering a large piece of potentially 500-year-old history. The students carefully dig around the walls of house from a late pre-historic farming culture called the Oneota. Read about the discovery in this La Crosse Tribune article.
Each summer, the Archaeological Studies Program offers an archaeological field school based in the greater La Crosse area.
Read about Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, an extension of UW-L’s sociology and archaeology departments.