The team from UWM’s Cultural Resource Management program, lead by architecture historian Justin Miller, conducted a survey of places of worship in the City of Milwaukee recently. The In Focus article covers the research, findings and recommendations conducted by the… Read More
UWM-ARLC Architectural Historian Justin Miller has been invited to prepare a proposal for the Thematic Survey of the Architecture of Alonzo Robinson project to the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
Week Five of the 2021 UWM Archaeological Field School During the fifth week the students in the archaeological field school opened up the 16 meters by 4.5 meters block. Unfortunately, a day and a half were lost because of rains… Read More
Week Four of the 2021 UW-Milwaukee Archaeological Field School During the fourth week the students in the archaeological field school completed the controlled horizontal and vertical excavations within the excavation units started in week three. Excavations were stopped at the… Read More
Week Three of the 2021 UW-Milwaukee Archaeological Field School During the third week the students in the archaeological field school conducted Phase I archaeological surveys to relocate an existing archaeological site and setting up an excavation area at the Koshkonong… Read More
Note! This event has been cancelled due to the forecast of inclement weather. The UWM archaeological field school is completing its third week in the field. We would like to invite the family and friends of the Weisensel family, the… Read More
Weeks One and Two of the 2021 UW-Milwaukee Archaeological Field School During the first two weeks the students in the archaeological field school participate in lectures on identifying cultural material and culture history of Wisconsin. They also receive instruction on… Read More
June 1-July 10, 2021
The UWM Archaeological Field School will be conducting archaeological investigations in Milwaukee at the location of the 1855 North Point Lighthouse in Lake Park. In addition to our excavations, we will conduct survey near Milwaukee.
For more than 20 years the Menominee Historic Preservation Department, the College of Menominee Nation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Midwest Ethnohorticulture LLC, and others have been collaborating on a renewed series of studies about ancient Menominee garden systems.
Two archaeology PhD students, Alexis Jordan and Shaheen Christie, contributed a paper on “The Graduate Student Experience in the Neoliberal Academy”, which documents their participation in advocating for the future of academic freedom and “The Wisconsin Idea”.
The program summarizes the recovery of human remains associated with the unmarked, abandoned Second Ward Cemetery, also known as the Gruenhagen Cemetery or German Protestant Cemetery. The work was done as a result of the expansion associated with Guest House of Milwaukee, a non-profit shelter for homeless men.
Professor Arnold presented two public lectures entitled “The Past on Tap: Feasts and Fermented Brews in Ancient Europe” at the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Bacchus Uncorked program on July 15 and 16, 2017.
Title: Expect the Unexpected: Implications of Recent Analyses of Mortuary Vessels for the Early Iron Age Social Configurations in Southwest Germany
Conference: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and functions of imported Mediterranean vessels in Early Iron Age central Europe
Amy Klemmer, will use the award to study past human responses to climate change in Ecuador during the summer of 2017.
Title: Archaeology Around Lake Koshkonong
Event: Rock River Symposium at the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology