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November 2021
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MVAC COVID-19 Update
  • This is MVAC’s field season, so office/building hours are irregular. If you would like to visit, please call or e-mail in advance to make sure the building will be open.
  • MVAC staff are following social distancing and face covering protocols when meeting with the public, and we ask that visitors do the same.
  • MVAC 2021 public events are still on hold, but we will be planning new events as we are able. Watch our e-News, website, and Facebook page for updates! 
Feel free to email us at mvac@uwlax.edu, or leave a voicemail at (608) 785-8463. In the meantime, stay safe, and stay healthy!
MVAC Lab Video
Is it an artifact? 
Chipped Stone: Cultural versus Natural

Have you ever found a broken stone and wondered whether it was an ancient tool? Natural processes do interesting things to rocks, and some of them look similar to alterations made by people. Even so, chipped-stone tools show telltale signs of having been worked by human hands. In this video, Dr. Connie Arzigian looks at a variety of chipped-stone tools to see what identifies them as human made. Check the timestamps in the YouTube video description for quick reference to parts of the video.
Bill Gresens’ Archaeology Book Review for November 2021

The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths (four trowels)
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is starting a new life at Cambridge University but she returns to Norfolk when a convicted serial killer asks for her to excavate the burials of even more victims.
MVAC News
Watch Virtual Presentations by MVAC Current and Past Staff and Associates and UWL Department of Archaeology & Anthropology Faculty

Vicki Twinde-Javner, MVAC Senior Research Archaeologist, Contracts Budget Manager, provided a YouTube presentation entitled Phase III Excavations at 47CR660 – Lessard Site for the Colorado Archaeological Society, Indian Peaks Chapter.

Jim Theler, MVAC Senior Research Associate; Professor Emeritus, UWL, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology and Joe Tiffany, former MVAC Executive Director, Professor Emeritus, UWL, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology were part of a YouTube panel discussion for the State Historical Society of Iowa entitled Iowa Stories: Household Economy at Wall Ridge.


Heather Walder, Lecturer, UWL, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology was part of a Wisconsin Humanities Council podcast entitled The Power of Indigenous Knowledge.

MVAC's New Web Address
MVAC’s new web address is: https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/
Archaeological Terms, Artifacts, and Specific Sites Snippets

New information added to MVAC’s website in October:
Is it an artifact?  Chipped Stone: Characteristics of an Artifact
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Axe – Full Grooved
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Bird – Carved Shale-Like Stone (3D)
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Throwback Thursday – 1991 Sanford Archaeological District – Oneota Vessel with Robert “Ernie” Boszhardt
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Regional Interest

YouTube – Phase III Excavations at 47CR660 – Lessard Site (Vicki Twinde-Javner)
Colorado Archaeological Society, Indian Peaks Chapter

YouTube - Iowa Stories: Household Economy at Wall Ridge (Jim Theler and Joe Tiffany)
State Historical Society of Iowa 

Podcast - The Power of Indigenous Knowledge (Heather Walder)
Wisconsin Humanities

YouTube - Evidence for Bison Butchering and Use from the Joy Creek Major Site
Iowa Archaeology

YouTube - Archaeological Examination of the War Eagle Shipwreck 
La Crosse County Historical Society
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