UW System Awarded NAGPRA Documentation and Consultation Grant by National Park Service-The UWM Archaeological Research Laboratory Center led by Dr. Jennifer Haas, has been awarded a NAGPRA Documentation and Consultation Grant by the National Park Service. This grant will help facilitate repatriation efforts and strengthen relationships between the state of Wisconsin... Read More
Submerged Prehistory-By Ann S. Eberwein “Beneath the surface of our oceans, lakes, rivers, and wetlands lies a physical record of humankind preserved in prehistoric and historic shorelines, shipwrecks, inundated cities, harbors, and other traces of our past.” – Advisory Council on... Read More
Congratulations to our Class of 2023!- Anthropology successfully graduated a substantial amount of students this year and we couldn’t be more proud of them. This year we had six PhD students, seven Master’s students, and almost 20 undergraduates finish their degrees. PhD dissertations... Read More
Women’s History Month – A tribute to Fatimah Collier Jackson-Fatimah Collier Jackson was born in Denver, Colorado in 1950. Her maternal great-grandmother was a Choctaw Native American of the Bell Clan and a traditional herbalist and midwife. Growing up, Jackson’s family was poor, but she had a large, close-knit... Read More
Women’s History Month – A tribute to Maria Constanza Ceruti-By Ann Eberwein María Constanza Ceruti is an archaeologist, anthropologist, and mountaineer with an impressive list of accomplishments. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1973 and her parents, who were both doctors, took her to many museums and... Read More
Women’s History Month – A tribute to Mary Brodrick-By Ann Eberwein Mary Brodrick (1858 – 1933) was an archaeologist and Egyptologist of great distinction and was one of the first women to excavate in Egypt. She began her academic career at age thirty after a trip to Egypt... Read More
Upcoming Anthropology Events-The Archaeological Institute of America’s Archaeology Abridged series presents: Traitors or Native Conquistadors? The Role of Tlaxcala in the Fall of Aztec Mexico A free lecture by David Carballo on Thursday, March 23 at 1pm CT Following three centuries of... Read More
Women’s History Month – A tribute to Harriet M. Smith-By Ann Eberwein Born is 1911, Harriet M. Smith was the first female archaeologist in Illinois and led early excavations at Cahokia including the salvage excavation of Murdock Mound (Mound 55). Smith received her Doctorate in Anthropology from the University... Read More
New Research into Hittite Collapse-By Ann Eberwein Between 1200 and 1150 BC, cities, regions, and empires across Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean experienced sudden decline and fragmentation in what is termed the Late Bronze Age collapse. Many explanations, both environmental and cultural, have... Read More