UW-L students unearth history near Holmen. A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse archeology class has discovered the remains of an American Indian home near Holmen that could be more than 500 years old.
In a remote field near Hwy. 53, the students have unearthed a section of a village “long house” used by an ancient culture of agriculturalists called the Oneota, who likely occupied the house between 1350 and 1500. Similar houses were discovered nearby between 1987 and 1992 during a road construction project. But for students in archeology professor David Anderson's class, this is an unusual find. All told, the class has documented nearly 7,000 artifacts, including remnants of the home and broken bits of ancient pottery. Kensington Runestone. The Kensington Runestone is a 200-pound slab of greywacke covered in runes on its face and side that supporters claim is evidence that Scandinavian explorers reached the middle of North America in the 14th century although experts identify it as a 19th century hoax.
The stone was found in 1898 in the largely rural township of Solem, Douglas County, Minnesota, and named after the nearest settlement, Kensington. Runologists and experts in Scandinavian linguistics consider the runestone to be a hoax.[2][3] The runestone has been analyzed and dismissed repeatedly without altering local opinion of the Runestone's legitimacy.[4][5][6][7][8] The community of Kensington is solidly behind the runestone, which has transcended its asserted cultural importance to the Scandinavian community and has "taken on a life of its own"[clarification needed].[9][10] Provenance[edit]
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