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September 6, 2019

MSUM receives national grant for archaeological research at Poverty Point World Heritage Site

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 […]

Anthropology & Earth Science
September 3, 2019

Wallace, Kramar and students attend Nutrient Network Workshops

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 […]

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August 26, 2019

Dalan, Holley attend International Conference on Archaeological Prospection

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 […]

Anthropology & Earth Science
August 20, 2019

Holley, Fleming awarded $150,000 grant

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.

Anthropology & Earth Science
August 5, 2019

Bachmeier facilitates Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara (MHA, Three Affiliated Tribes Nation) traditional pottery-making revival efforts

The Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance invited Professor Brad Bachmeier to help facilitate a pottery workshop June 17-18 at Twin Buttes, ND, on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The workshop followed archeological research and records of traditional forming and firing techniques. Native ND clay from the reservation was dug and processed. Hand-made vessels were produced, decorated and open-pit fired. Bachmeier joined the Paleo […]

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