Program in Midwestern Archaeology (PIMA)
Archaeological fieldwork is a combination of field school and grant supported research centered in Wisconsin and Illinois. Archaeological field schools for undergraduates and graduate students are run every other year. Thesis and dissertation research collections are available for interested graduate students.
Historic Cemeteries
Historic Cemeteries are widely recognized as distinct places with at least one common purpose – that of burying the dead. Beyond that a cemetery may represent a link with a specific person, or with the more generalized past, or both. In those instances where the link between burials and the social, ethnic, religious or cultural present is tenuous or lacking, cemeteries are abandoned or forgotten.
Old World Archaeology Program
Collections-based research and analysis has been the focus of many student projects. Extensive collections from the Old World at the Milwaukee Public Museum, as well as Old World collections at the Chicago Field Museum, and the Smithsonian have been the subject of several thesis projects and are available for future thesis work.
Southwest Archaeology Program
Jason Sherman initiated the Sierra Blanca Archaeological Survey (SBAS) in the Sierra Blanca highlands of south-central New Mexico.
Latin American Archaeological Program
Departmental field programs include on-going research in Peru, conducted by Dr. Jean Hudson. Her work in Peru focuses on the ecological relationships between humans, their cultural systems, and local faunal resources.
Experimental Archaeology
Students and professors get together to share labor and ideas on various archaeological experiments designed to help us better understand our artifacts and sites. What’s next? Come and help us decide. Everyone is welcome.
Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetary
Currently UWM cares for individuals from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery who were disinterred in two separate time frames (1991–1992 cohort and 2013 cohort) in advance of development projects and as provided for by Wisconsin Statute §157.70.
Exhibition and Interpretation
Sabin Hall also houses an “Exhibition Lab” that maintains a wide variety of equipment for the design and fabrication of interpretive exhibitions including: large scale printing and dry mounting, mat cutting and framing, digital photography, and vinyl cutting for the construction of artifact mounts, as well as computers and professional design software.