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 ...

An underwater archaeology team is documenting the wreck of the S.S. Wisconsin. The S.S. Wisconsin is now something of an underwater time capsule after sinking in Lake Michigan during a 1929 storm.

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 ...

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 ...

Those who dig archaeology now have a new community resource. The Center for Wisconsin Archaeology recently opened at the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County. It provides archaeological ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient American Indians in eastern North America built a variety of earthworks over many centuries and for many different purposes. Ohio’s Adena culture, around 2,300 years ago, built conical burial ...

MADISON, WISCONSIN—The Journal Times reports that a dugout canoe discovered last fall in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota has been scanned with high-tech tools to aid in further study. Radiocarbon dating of a ...

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 ...