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«VDiggers Find Rare Indian Pipe on Trempealeau FarmI | TREMPEALEAU — A group'and what effect it had on hi* an area near shore of Trem-I df archeologista have found a culture pealeau I-ikes Their remaining■ treasury of Indian artifacts Fossil pollen will he extract dutie« will include careful sift-this week on an old farmstead ed from soil samples from which m gof soil in a hurlal site.| near Trempealeau the flora of the period can he Dr. Freeman directed a slml-» A complete pottery- vessel - determined This is supplement lar archeological research pro-. all of the broken pieces were ed by samples of the humus ject in nearby Buffalo County.' found - as well as five skeltons. zones of the soil, which are near Alma, about four years’r a stone blade for a knife, a identified as to prairie, oak for- ago There she and her group,nd piece of copper believed used est. and other type* members found evidence ofj‘,nee in a breast plate, and a set of For the next month. th« group civilization of about 10.000 years Sam pJn pipe, include the prizes will continue their diggings in ago.the diggers have uncovered in *on their search for the type of cul-«p Vin- ture the woodland Indians had r ln about 2.000 years ago at A grant of 186,000 from t h e! [•* National Science Foundation is f ndi- financing the work of representatives from the Wisconsin State I mid Historical Society and the Uni- r an versity of Wisconsin. (on a One member of the digging i the party. Jay Brandon, reported vlt; nbat that the F'an pipe found w a s r,June spectacular ’’ Only four or r, five of them have been found in m t h e the United States previously. pj (ton. Says Miss Joan Freeman, cur- p, n ed ator of anthropology at the \e j. State Historical Society: In Mpf*. seven years of digging. I nev- st er unearthed a complete ves- g,— selThese pan pipes are named w. for the Greek god Pan, bul more• correctly called conjoined copper tubes. They are m a d e i . from a sheet of copper bent over m and shaped into pipes. Across f I this, a reed was placed, to make what the middle woodland band £i all called music I’onal Since June 12, the archeolo-gists have been working in the -height of the summer heat in C J° attempts to determine the type ! h e of weather experienced here P°' two thousand years ago. as well G; the as try ing to find artifacts |rcr 1,1 ve A storm last weekend inter- ge shes rupted their work, after one of he that th* group members did an In- ye• not dun rain dance just to break j onal the boredom noit Mias Freeman explains that ^Mr. (he reason for the check on the n. nee- weather is important. Weather'^*wa could be related to how the In- ,|e dian adjusted to the climate
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Eau Claire Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1966
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