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MVAC archaeologists were busy during the past summer
excavating at a variety of sites around the area. This program will give you the opportunity to hear
preliminary results of the summer’s activities.
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
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7:00 p.m. |
| Location: |
Port O'Call, Cartwright Center, UW-La Crosse |
| Speaker: |
MVAC Archaeologists |
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My Life in the Cemetery: Personal, CRM, and
Ethnoarchaeological Ruminations
Since there has never been a clear separation in my
professional and personal lives, my presentation will be first-person,
and reflect both my personal and professional interests in cemeteries.
That fascination began when I was a child, tagging along with my parents
and grandparents when they visited the family plots in the Mt. Lebanon
Section of Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska. I reveled in the
stories associated with the gravestones and, I think, that paradigm of
material culture, memory, and non-material behavior must have made an
impression upon me. Later, under cooperative Cultural Resource
Management agreements with the National Park Service and U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, the Iowa State University Archaeological Laboratory
recorded, and even excavated, Euro-American pioneer cemeteries as well
as prehistoric habitation and mortuary sites. Over the last twenty-five
years, my wife (Hanna Rosenberg Gradwohl) and I have been conducting
ethnoarchaeological studies of historic cemeteries with a focus on the
relationship of material culture to ethnicity. In particular we are
conducting research on intra-group diversity in Jewish cemeteries and
how various material cultural forms relate to historical and on-going
group and individual identities. This research allows me to combine
both emic and etic approaches in interpretation of the data, and
dovetails with my own interests in genealogy and family social history.
This presentation also includes a short summary of the Presidio Pet
Cemetery in San Francisco which exhibits more attributes of the human
species than does the military cemetery there.
| Date: |
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| Time: |
7:00 p.m. |
| Location: |
Port O'Call, Cartwright Center, UW-La Crosse |
| Speaker: |
Dr. David Mayer Gradwohl, Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Iowa State University |
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MVAC's 25th Anniversary Celebration
This special celebration will include a 25 year retrospective,
award ceremony and silent auction. Check back for more information on this event.
| Date: |
November 13, 2007 |
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Specifics to be announced |
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