Location: 3413 N. Downer Ave, Milwaukee Sabin Hall Room G90

Speaker: Dr. Bill Green, Professor, Beloit College Logan Museum of Anthropology

Title: Gast Farm: The Archaeology of People and Place in the Mississippi River Valley

About: This month’s Wisconsin Archeological Society lecture is co-sponsored with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Anthropology. It is part of the UWM Anthropology Colloquium Series.

Professor Bill Green specializes in North American archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology. He currently studies Woodland communities occupied 1000-2000 years ago in the Mississippi River valley. His research has been funded by the Ho-Chunk Nation Cultural Resources Division, the National Science Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. The former Director of the Office of the State Archaeologist at the University Iowa, Professor Green teaches and publishes in the areas of environmental archaeology, museum studies, and Native North American cultures.