Dr. Erik Gooding and Dr. Paul Sando were both selected to present at the Railroads in Native America Conference in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Conference was from Sept. 12-15, 2019, held in Omaha, NE. Conference sponsors included the Union Pacific Railroad, the National Park Service, the Union Pacific’s Council of Native […]
Minnesota State University Moorhead has been awarded a 2019 Preservation Technology and Training Grant for $29,577 from the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. The grant will fund a project which involves an international technology transfer of cutting-edge 3D ultra-high resolution ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology integrated with other surface and downhole geophysical methods, coring and soil […]
Dr. Alison Wallace from Biosciences and Dr. David Kramar from Anthropology and Earth Sciences attended the 2019 Nutrient Network Workshops at the University of Minnesota campus in St. Paul with biosciences students Patrice Delaney and Andie Wood. The workshops were a great opportunity to collaborate with research teams from around the world (Argentina to Mongolia), present the current work at […]
Rinita Dalan and George Holley (Anthropology and Earth Science) will attend the 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection from August 28 to September 1 in Sligo, Ireland. This conference focuses on current global approaches to archaeological geophysics and remote sensing. Dalan will present a paper co-authored by Holley and others (The Origins of the West Plaza Rise at the Poverty […]
The Minnesota Historical Society and the Oversight Board of the Statewide Survey of Historical and Archaeological Sites awarded George Holley, Department of Anthropology and Earth Science, and Ed Fleming, Science Museum of Minnesota, this summer a grant of $150,000 to conduct research on creating a Handbook of Minnesota Precontact Ceramics.