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State Students Spend Summer With ShovelBeloit Wls — Special i — A summer with a shovel comes to an end for 18 young college *tu dents at Diamond Bluff. Wi. this weekend The students six of them coed* are members of the Beloit College W i-on *111 Archaeological Survey field expedition, which has spent the summer excavating six of the more than 83 large Indian mounds on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi river During the summer the student* have excavated one animal shaped effigy mound three seven foot high conical mounds and two linear mound*Digging up the six mound* was a two month Job. and slow painstaking work, but filling them In will take only a day or two Director of the expedition Is Prof Moreau S Maxwell of Beloit college He U being assisted by Prof Chandler Rowe of Lawrence college representing the Wisconsin Archaeological Survey I nearthed Several Burial*The student diggers two of them from the University of Wisconsin, three from Lawrence and the rest from Beloit have unearthed several Indian burials and a variety of shell tempered pottery tools, and pieces of bone For their effort* the students will receive eight hours of college credit and some sun-tanned backs Although the summer* “find has been limited in quantity Prof Maxwell terms it archaeologically very significantIt Is significant he says because it ha* disproved several existing theories about the peoples who in habited the area before the coming of the white manThe archaeology party, professors and all. spent the summer rough mg It In tents adjacent to the site of excavation They cooked moat oftheir own food, and took baths in a nearby creekIn addition to acting as a teach ing medium, the work is the first field activity of the newly former Wisconsin Archaeological Survey It also constitutes the first Inter, slve local research by Beloit col lege's Logan museum which here tofore has specialized In the area* of New Mexico. North Africa southern France, and North Da kotaIncludes Kenosha StudentBeloit college students on the trip are Willa Stamberg. Berwyn 111 ; Tom Kehoe. Janesville Wls Barbara Thompson and Don Izard Chicago Edward Scully, St A1 bans N Y : Phil Mile* Mt Car roll. 111.. Roger Peterson Rocklord. Ill ; Elmer Demlinger Elkhart Ind Charles Jacobs. Kenosha. Betty Green Bayfield Colo Ruth Jack. State College. Ark Herbert Ship pen. Detroit, and Bill Bunge Milwaukee.University students are Bob Ma ber. Milwaukee and Pa: Ewen Wauwatosa. PHyllts FarwelL Green Boy John Forde. Chicago, and Tom Hay, Milwaukee are from Law rence
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Kenosha Evening News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Aug 12, 1948
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