Effigy Mound and Rock Art Research in the Driftless Area Employing Lidar and D-Stretch Noon to 1 p.m., Friday, December 4 5230 Social Sciences Building, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Ongoing investigations …
Year: 2015
As the river rises: Cahokia’s emergence and decline linked to Mississippi River flooding
As with rivers, civilizations across the world rise and fall. Sometimes, the rise and fall of rivers has something to do with it. At Cahokia, the largest prehistoric settlement in the Americas north of Mexico, …
Town meets gown to explore Wisconsin’s Trempealeau mounds
Why did migrants from Cahokia, the large mound city near St. Louis, move to the present-day village of Trempealeau in western Wisconsin to build flat-topped mounds about 1,000 years ago? That question has intrigued Danielle …