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Drawing

Petroglyph Tracing

Date: 06 1879
Description: Tracing of a cave petroglyph depicting a human figure wearing headgear. A club is depicted to the right of the figure.
Drawing

Petroglyph Tracing

Date: 06 1879
Description: Tracing of a petroglyph depicting an animal figure pursued by a human figure with a bow and arrow followed by a child.
Historical Essay

Whittlesey, Charles 1808 - 1886

Geologist, Archaeologist, and Soldier
Brief biography of Charles Whittlesey (1808 - 1886).
Historical Essay

Paleo-Indian Fluted Spear Point

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Early Paleo-Indian fluted spear point found in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, and made between 12,000 B.C. and 8,000 B.C. (Museum object #1985.2)
Historical Essay

Wisconsin's Spanish Currency

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Spanish Reale coin from the Alden's Corners Post Office Site in Dane County, Wisconsin. (Museum object #2002.211.8)
Historical Essay

Hopewellian Human Figurine

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Human figurine fragment made of non-tempered, smoothed clay, c. 100 - 200 A.D., found at Pine River site, Richland County, WI (Museum object #2004.5.1)
Historical Essay

Mystery Pike from Interstate Park

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Hammered copper pike from Interstate Park Bison site, Polk County, Wisconsin, c. 1000-4000 B.C. (Museum object #1956.3099)
Historical Essay

Lice Comb from Fort Crawford

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Bone lice comb from site of first Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 1816-1829. (Museum object #1997.62.11941)
Historical Essay

Frontier Clay Pipe Fragment

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Clay pipe bowl found at Sheard Road site, Racine County, Wisconsin. (Museum object #1998.236.249)
Historical Essay

Oneota Ceramic Vessel

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Decorated shell-tempered pot from the OT site (47-LC-0262), 1500-1625. (Museum object #1995.218.39)
Historical Essay

Oldest Toast in Wisconsin?

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Charred bread slices recovered from the Alden's Corners archaeological site in Dane County, Wisconsin. (Museum object #2002.211.1,3,5)
Historical Essay

Underwater Archaeology: Learning from Sunken Ships

Learn about how archaeologist explore underwater shipwrecks
Historical Essay

Conservation in Underwater Archaeology

Learn how artifacts are conserved after they have been excavated from their underwater resting places
Historical Essay

Underwater Archaeology: Searching for Shipwrecks

Discover how sunken ships are found
Historical Essay

Documenting Shipwrecks in Underwater Archaeology

Learn how archaeologists document their discoveries when they are examining a shipwreck
Historical Essay

Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks Everywhere

Underwater Archaeology
Learn about why there were so many shipwrecks in the 1800s off Wisconsin's shores.
Historical Essay

First Peoples

The History of Paleo-Indians in Wisconsin
Learn about the Paleo-Indians who first inhabited the Wisconsin territory and the archaeological excavations that have revealed their culture.
Photograph

Ali Bacha Looking South

Date: 03 11 1927
Description: Ali Bacha looking south. Three indigenous men work on an archaeological excavation in Algeria, Africa. On the left a man examines material in a wheelbarrow...
Photograph

Ensemble of the Diggings at Ali Bacha

Date: 03 23 1927
Description: Ensemble of diggings at Ali Bacha. View looking downhill towards three men working on an archaeological excavation in Algeria, Africa. On the left an indig...
Photograph

"A Votre Sante"

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of men, women and children having a meal outdoors on the ground. They are gathered around a box being used as a table. Cu...

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