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August 2019
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Public Field School Update

The 2019 MVAC public field school brought together adults, middle school, high school, and college students to excavate at Goose Island County Park in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Decorations on pot sherds recovered from the site this summer mark this as a Middle Woodland occupation, around 200-400 AD.
Bill Gresens’ Archaeology Book Review for August 2019

The Way, the Truth and the Dead by Francis Pryor (four trowels)
British archaeologist Alan Cadbury returns to the Fen Country to discover the truth behind the grisly death of his old friend Stan Beaton, who had been conducting a large-scale archaeological survey of Fursey Estate.
MVAC News
Local students learn about area history at Archaeology Field School in La Crosse
WKBT-TV piece on MVAC’s Public Field School. 
Local archaeologists dig up history
WXOW piece on MVAC’s Public Field School. 
UW-La Crosse workshops bring Egypt back to life
WKBT-TV piece covering MVAC’s Egypt class for 4-6 graders taught by Jean Dowiasch.
Unearthing a Living Past
You can read about MVAC in this article in the June/July 2019 issue of Coulee Region Women magazine.
Touching the Distant Past
This article by Christine Hall, a UWL Archaeology graduate, is in the same issue of Coulee Region Women. The article describes area sites to explore this summer including information about MVAC.
 
Archaeological Terms, Artifacts, and Specific Sites Snippets

New information added to MVAC’s website in July:
TBT – MVAC 1990s T-Shirt – Samuel’s Cave Elk
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Preston Rockshelter – Elk Pelvis with Embedded Projectile Point
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Bird - Carved Shale-Like Stone
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Second Fort Crawford – Pearlware Transfer Print Platter
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Regional Exhibits
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Until August 18, 2019
The Vikings Begin
American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Until October 27, 2019
Black Hawk War Symposium                       
Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, Sheboygan Falls, WI
November 2, 2019
Stories from the Wreckage Exhibit
Wisconsin Historical Museum, Madison, WI
Until November 16, 2019
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