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Photos: Prehistoric pits

Posted 3:34 p.m. Wednesday, June 28, 2017

UWL archeology students spend the summer days at an Oneota site searching for answers about the prehistoric groups past.
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UWL archeology students spend the summer days at an Oneota site searching for answers about the prehistoric groups past. Read more →

UW-La Crosse archeology students are gaining hands-on field experience doing an excavation this summer south of Holmen.

[caption id="attachment_49220" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] UWL student Tom Sheely inspects a dirt screen shaker for material remains.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49223" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] An overview of the Tremaine site, inhabited by the Oneota culture from A.D.1450-1600.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49222" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Students learn hands-on recording and digging techniques.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49224" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Nikki Pegarsch and Taua Yang map the wall profiles of an Oneota refuse pit.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49225" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Students delicately uncover and document a wolf mandible.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49226" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Dave Anderson, associate professor of archaeology, inspects a wolf mandible, uncovered in an Oneota refuse pit near Holmen.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_49229" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Students refill excavation sites with original exhumed dirt after an excavation has been completed.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_49240" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Dave Anderson and two students crowd around a laptop as they work to identify a recently uncovered mandible. The bone was identified as from a wolf.[/caption]

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