The Wisconsin Archeologist, Vol. 29 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Wisconsin Archeologist, Vol. 29 The cause of Archaeology has been injured much more by those who give permission to dig too easily than by those who refuse all permission. A mound excavated is a mound destroyed, and few mounds have escaped injury at the hands of relic hunters. Introductory The excavations that form the subject for this report were a by-products of the Anthropology 3 course offered by the University of Wisconsin Extension Division during the spring of 1947. This course was taught at the Rice Lake, Spooner, Lady-smith, and New Richmond centers, by the writer of this report. Covering but one semester, this course could include little more than a bare smattering of the several fields into which anthropology is divided. The method followed in teaching Archaeological Field methods was as follows: Two lectures were given, each followed by a quiz session in which the blue print records of cross sections and floor plans of actual University of Chicago excavations were studied. Hectograph copies of the lectures were given out for study to each student. Next, a full seventy-five minute period was given over to the showing, in slow motion, of 16 mm. moving pictures of work on these same excavations by the University of Chicago Field Party, in the vicinity of Lewistown, III. These were taken by the writer of this report himself, when a member of this party, with this specific purpose in mind. Finally, an Archaeological Field Day was arranged for each center. Here the students had a full day of learning by the laboratory method, taking part inactual excavation work. It was originally planned to hold field days in the first semester also, at Mauston, Hillsboro, Sparta, and Richland Center areas. An auto accident in which the author of this paper was hurt, and had his car badly wrecked, interfered with this plan. The narrow margin of time between the thawing of the ground and the end of the quarter was a limiting factor. Frozen ground impeded work on the Alden mound considerably. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.