This summer, in a unique collaboration, a team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison recovered wreckage and possible human remains from a site in France where an American pilot crashed during World War II.
UW-Madison Anthropology News
Alison Carter, recent PhD, featured in Ars Technica
A current article in Ars Technica discusses archaeological work that is bringing a new picture of the urban center of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, including the work of Alison Carter (PhD, 2013): “How archaeologists found …
Anthropologist Bowie ‘embraces the unpredictable’
From the Internation Division@UW Madison The story of Katherine Bowie’s life and career might be titled “The Accidental Anthropologist” or perhaps “The Serendipitous Scholar.” Bowie has followed a winding path guided by her constant curiosity …
Exploitation and Conservation Among the Ancient Maya
UW Anthropology graduate student, Ken Seligson, has recently had his article titled “Exploitation and Conservation Among the Ancient Maya” published in Edge Effects, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, …
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 …