Written By, Robert Anderson When we began our efforts to return the peregrine falcon to the bluffs of the Mississippi River in 1998, we collaborated with Effigy Mounds National Monument in Harper’s Ferry, Iowa. Effigy Mounds National Monument runs along the west bank of the Mississippi river. It preserves prominent bluffs, un-fragmented forests, and Read More
By: James P. Scherz Overview 1995 This paper is a brief summary of events relating to a visit to Blackhawk Ridge, near Sauk City, Wisconsin on 13 June, 1995 by Col. Burrows of the Illinois State Militia, William Wenzel (surveyor), Larry Johns (with Native American associations), representatives of the Wisconsin DNR, and myself. The meeting Read More
by Prof. James P. Scherz and Buck Trawicky March 1990 Hudson Park is a very small park on the north shore of Lake Monona, in the Marquette neighborhood of the City of Madison, Dane Co., Wisconsin. (See Locator Map, Fig. 1) This brief report describes a survey in 1990 of an Indian effigy mound in Read More
http://www.stephencjett.org STEPHEN C. JETT THE PRESENT STATE OF THE EVIDENCE During the ten years since NEARA’s 1992 Across Before Columbus (ABC) conference, the evidence concerning pre- Columbian transoceanic contacts has advanced mightily, including through the appearance of the second edition of John Sorenson and Martin Raish’s (1996) massive bibliog- raphy on transoceanic contacts. I propose Read More
http://www.stephencjett.org/ CLAG RETROSPECTIVES Confessions of a Cultural Diffusionist Stephen C. Jett Division of Textiles and Clothing University of California Davis, CA 95616 Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde As an undergraduate majoring in geology at Princeton University in the late 1950s, I heard Read More
INTRODUCTION This brochure illustrates a few of the many precise maps produced of Indian Mounds in Wisconsin over the past decades by students and volunteers of the Ancient Earthworks Society, working under the direction of Professor James P. Scherz, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The first part of this document addresses Read More
Old Stone Face atop Mummy Mountain being queried by C. Fred Rydholm of Marquette, Michigan, about its ancient secrets. From modern surveying techniques and from ancient beach lines where waves once lapped just downhill from this face, many interesting answers are beginning to come forth. By, James P. Scherz Prof. Emeritus Dept. of Civil and Read More
An Overview and an Update By: Jan Beaver and James Scherz October 21, 1993 Eagle Township, in Richland County, Wisc., adjoins the north side of the Wisconsin River directly north of Muscoda, Wisconsin. Reportedly, there was once an important village of the Fox and Sauk Indians near Muscoda before the coming of the Whites. Subsequent Read More