5th Unhopped Iron Brewer Challenge: Unhopped and Unplugged Brews

Try your hand at producing a prehistoric/early historic fermented beverage from any time period/geographic area using archaeologically/historically attested plants as hops substitutes! On Saturday April 25, 2026 from 5:00-7:00pm in the Honors College (HON 196), 3363 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, …

UWM Anthropology SURF Students Present at Annual MAC Conference

A new open-access archaeology lab has just dropped! UWM Support for Undergraduate Research (SURF) students Elsie Touchstone and Rachel Stewart along with their research mentor, Dr. Shannon Freire, presented their co-created Archaeological Dating Lab at the 2024 Midwest Archeological Conference …

Anthropology Department Colloquia Return Wednesday Dec. 4th

The Department of Anthropology will hold its first colloquium on December 4th at 4:00 PM in Sabin Hall, room G90 on the ground floor. Students, Faculty, and Public are all welcome to attend for free. Unfortunately, our November 6th Colloquium …

Dr. Lemke Presents at Freshwater Sciences Colloquium, Oct. 10th

Dr. Ashley Lemke will be presenting her research at the next Freshwater Sciences Colloquium tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday Oct. 10th at 1:00 PM.  The event will take place in GLRF 3080 at the Great Lakes Research Facility, 600 E Greenfield Ave, …

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 …

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 …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.