Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Pathways to the Past
Think about It
How Do Archaeologists Learn about the Past?
How Old Is It?
How Do Archaeologists Find Sites?
How Do Archaeologists Excavate and Document?
Back in the Laboratory
Looking Back
CHAPTER 2: When Great Furry Beasts Roamed the Land
Think about It
A Different Environment
Paleo-Indian Life
The Importance of Tools
But Can We Learn More?
Kenosha County Mammoths?Believe It or Not
Mammoths and Mastodons
Looking Back
CHAPTER 3: Archaic People: Hunters and Gatherers
Think about It
Changing Times
New Tools, New Tasks
New Materials, Too
The Bass Quarry Site: Tools Are Us
Looking Back
CHAPTER 4: New Ways of Living: Woodland,
Mississippian, and the Oneota
Think about It
Woodland Lifeways
A New Invention?Pottery!
New Beliefs, New Activities
Effigy Mounds, a Wisconsin Claim to Fame
The Statz Site, a Woodland Village
Mississippian Life
Aztalan, a Mississippian Outpost?
The Oneota
The Tremaine Site, an Oneota Village
Making a Bridge Between Early Indians and Indian Nations
Looking Back
CHAPTER 5: Stories in Stone: Looking at Wisconsin Rock Art
Think about It
What is Rock Art?
Ancient Images at the Gottschall Site
Meeting Red Horn
Looking at Red Horn
Looking Back
CHAPTER 6: Furs and Forts
Think about It
Adapting to New People
Wisconsin, Home to Many
The French Fur Trade
Growing Conflicts
The British Arrive
Rock Island, Gateway to Wisconsin
Looking Back
CHAPTER 7: Mines, Timber, and Farms
Think about It
Mining in the Driftless Area
Hardscrabble, Grant County: Newcomers to an Old Land
Logging in the Northern Woods .
The Sherry and Gerry Logging Camp, Oconto County
Farms across Wisconsin (Or You Can?t Eat Lead and Pine Trees)
The 2 Pits Site: Farming up North in Douglas County
Looking Back
CHAPTER 8: Taking Care of Our Past
Acknowledgments