This presentation will discuss the history of archaeological excavations at Macktown, archaeological findings from that research, and what we can say about the people who lived at the site.

Sabin Hall, Room 149, UWM Campus Home on the Range: Hunter-gatherer Household Archaeology in the northern Great Basin, Harney County, Oregon The archaeological record of North America's Great Basin is well-known for the longevity of the Archaic period. Emily Mueller... Read More

Alice Beck Kehoe, Professor Emerita, Anthropology, Marquette University "Traveling Prehistoric Seas" The myth that no one had crossed an ocean to America before Columbus has stifled discussion of evidence of earlier contacts. Even five centuries of Norse use of eastern... Read More

Using the Robinson Reserve Site as a case study, the presentation examines resource processing by Late Prehistoric Langford groups of the Upper Midwest to investigate adaptations to dynamic stressors, such as intergroup conflict and dietary stress.

"Late Prehistoric Interaction in Eastern Wisconsin: Ceramic Attribute and Composition Analyses from Six Oneota Sites" Seth Schneider, UW-Milwaukee-CRM Abstract: Between AD 1050-1400, Oneota groups in Eastern Wisconsin were part of a dynamic and shifting political system that connected people across... Read More