Wisconsin Historical Society experts identified 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including the oldest recorded canoe from ...

Fort McCoy is part of the Driftless Area, also called the Paleozoic Plateau, which escaped glaciation in the last Ice Age, some 11,700-plus years ago. Combine the location with archaeological work ...

Archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical Society have discovered 16 prehistoric canoes submerged in the lake, which is ...

Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist and diving instructor, has helped uncover more than 100 shipwrecks across the region ...

Archaeologists in Wisconsin discovered something shocking in a prehistoric lake. Not one or two, but 16 canoes were found submerged in the lake bed of Lake Mendota in Madison. The announcement was ...

The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at UW-La Crosse will celebrate Wisconsin Archaeology Month in May with a volunteer archaeology field survey. The free public event will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4 ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Native Nations of Wisconsin in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society announced their recent archaeological findings from Lake Mendota on Thursday. Following the 2021 and ...

These cold, gray and damp days of winter make many question why we live in Wisconsin. While we cope by turning on our gas fireplaces and buying cars with heated seats, Wisconsin’s indigenous people ...

HORICON — Horicon was built on the site of a Native American settlement that was there for thousands of years. So it was no wonder that when a limestone slab walkway was being installed to link the ...

Typologically and visually similar glass trade beads, found on many archaeological sites of Native and French interaction in Wisconsin dating to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, often vary in ...

Paul Schanen of Adams-Friendship had given up on his study of archaeology 10 years prior when his nephew brought him an agate basin projectile point in 2009. “It’s pretty rare to find something that ...

MADISON, WISCONSIN—Kenosha News reports that maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen of the Wisconsin Historical Society discovered a dugout canoe sticking out of the mud of southern Wisconsin’s Lake ...