MOORHEAD – A three-week archaeological survey on land that once was part of the Ponderosa Golf Course in Glyndon has discovered large “surface scatter” areas — up to a quarter mile long — filled with bison bones and dart tips left behind by native people that hunted there 800 to 2,000 years ago.
MSUM’s 2015 Prairie and Woodland Native Nations Fieldschool was held from June 13-21. During the nine day trip students, under the direction of Anthropology Professor Erik Gooding, visited and undertook research at historical landmarks and tribal and regional museums as well as interacted with tribal administrators, tribal members, and elders from the Sauk Nation of Kansas and Nebraska, the Iowa […]
INFORUM, By Tu-Uyen Tran MOORHEAD—When Mike Michlovic arrived at Minnesota State University Moorhead to start a field anthropology program, he said he was told to not bother digging in the Red River Valley because there’s nothing here. Forty years and a dozen archaeological sites later, he and his students have discovered much about the life of the ancient American Indians […]
Dr. Paul Sando, Anthropology & Earth Science, was interviewed live on a BBC 5 radio news program to discuss the tragic derailment in Philadelphia and the general state of Amtrak and the U.S. rail system.
Mike Michlovic, Anthropology and Earth Science, will be retiring at the end of spring semester after 40 years at MSUM. Please join us on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 for a retirement program and open house in his honor.