Events
The Hanson Site: A Mid-17th Century Mass Grave on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin
Date: Monday, February 11th, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Room 102, Godfrey, Logan Museum of Anthropology
Sponsored by: Three Rivers Archaeological Society and the Logan Museum of Anthropology
Contact: greenb@beloit.edu, Bill Green 363-2119
Please join the Three Rivers Archaeological Society for a presentation by Dr. Amy Rosebrough, asst. State Archaeologist at the Wisconsin Historical Society on the Hanson Site.
In 1990 a mid-17th century mass grave was discovered on the edge of a gravel quary in Door County. New analysis suggests that the burials date to the years of the Iroquois Wars. Cutting-edge technology and forensic techniques have revealed lives belonging to a community under stress and on the edge of disaster.
This event is free and open to the campus and community.