Research News
- Justin Miller Invited to Submit Proposal for the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund - 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.
- UWM Field School Discovers Large Pit Features & Post Holes Despite Rain in Week 5 - 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
- UWM Field School Begins Excavation at Koshkonong Creek Village - 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
- 2021 UWM Archaeological Field School Kicks Off With the Basics - 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
- Alexis Jordan and Shaheen Christie contribute article to ANUAC, the journal of the national association of Italian cultural anthropologists - 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".
- Bettina Arnold presented two public lectures at the J. Paul Getty Museum - 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.
- Bettina Arnold invited speaker at international conference at Weltenburg Monastery, Germany - 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 receives Tinker Award for research in Latin America - Amy Klemmer, will use the award to study past human responses to climate change in Ecuador during the summer of 2017.
- Adrienne Frie presents at Society for American Archaeology Annual Conference - Title: Something Other – Birds in Early Iron Age Slovenia
Symposium: Where the Wild Things are Not: Human-Animal Interaction in the Space Between Wild and Domestic - Katherine Sterner and Robert Ahlrichs organize symposium and present at the SAA Annual Conference - Title: Examining the Use Lives of Archaic Bipointed Bifaces: Cache Blades from the Riverside Site
Symposium: Integrating Functional Analysis - Contributions from Use-Wear Analysis within the Broader Context of Human Behavior in Prehistoric North American - Thomas Zych and Brian Nicholls present poster at the SAA Annual Conference - Title: Sculpting a Mississippian Aztalan: A Landscape Perspective
Poster Session: North American Midwest I - Bettina Arnold presents invited paper at SAA Annual Conference - Title: ’And Make Some Other Man Our King’: Mortuary Evidence for Labile Elite Power Structures in Early Iron Age Europe
Session: "Power from Below: Collectivity and Heterarchy in Global Perspective" - John Richards, Robert Mainfort and Seth Schneider present poster at SAA Annual Conference - Title: Comparative Compositional Analysis of Parkin Phase Red-Slipped Pottery and Red Ochre Deposits Using PXRF and Petrography
Poster Session: North American Midwest I - Katherine Sterner presents her research at the SAA Annual Conference - Title: Examining the Use Lives of Archaic Bipointed Bifaces: Cache Blades from the Riverside Site (20ME0001)
Symposium: Integrating Functional Analysis: Contributions from Use-Wear Analysis within the Broader Context of Human Behavior in Prehistoric North America - Kevin Garstki presents his research at the SAA Annual Conference - Title: Producing Knowledge Through the Production of 3D Digital Artifacts
Symposium: Archaeological Epistemology in the Digital Age
UWM-CRM News
- Identity and Dinner: The Interpretive Potential of Plant Macroremains - 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.
- Dr. Patricia Richards and UWM-CRM featured on Milwaukee PBS - 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.
- Seth Schneider presents at the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology - Title: Archaeology Around Lake Koshkonong
Event: Rock River Symposium at the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology - Jennifer Haas gives Brown Bag talk to Public Service Commission - Title: Archaeology and Historic Preservation in Wisconsin
Event: Archaeology Brown Bag, Wisconsin Public Service Commission - Patricia Richards presents in poster session at the SAA Annual Conference - Title: Challenges to the Wisconsin Burial Sites Preservation Statute (WisStats 157.70)
Poster Session: North American Midwest I - Richard Kubicek and Patricia Richards present poster at SAA Annual Conference - Title: $1.87 Each, Four Feet Long and Over; $0.87 Each, Less than Four Feet: A Spatial Analysis of Coffin Type and Coffin Hardware from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Poster Session: North American Midwest I - Jennifer Haas gives invited workshop at the Wisconsin Historical Society - Title: Wisconsin's Burial Sites Law in Practice: Case Studies from Southeastern Wisconsin
Workshop: 2017 Archaeology Consultants Workshop, Wisconsin Historical Society - Alexander Anthony presents research at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting - Title: There is Nothing Like Looking if You Want to Find Something - The Emerging Accessibility of Historic Documents and the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Session: Bookends - What We’ve Learned in the Twenty-two Years Separating Archaeological Excavations of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery - Catherine Jones presents at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting - Title: Milwaukee's Common Grave: Spatial Distribution and Compositional Characteristics of Multiple Interments in a Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Potter's Field
Session: Bookends: What We've Learned in the Twenty-two Years Separating Archaeological Excavations of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery - 60th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference Presentation – Thomas Zych, Brian Nicholls, and Patricia B. Richards - Title: Landscapes of the Forgotten: Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery
Event: 60th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis