Fort McCoy leaders visit Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center; learn about curation of Fort McCoy artifacts
FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES
02.05.2024
Story by Scott Sturkol
Fort McCoy Garrison Commander Col. Stephen Messenger, Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Calarco, garrison command sergeant major, and other Fort McCoy Garrison personnel visited the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center on. Jan. 26 to learn more about their support in curating and housing archaeological artifacts found at the installation.
The visit, organized by Garrison Archaeologist Ryan Howell with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch, took a couple hours at the center on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus.
Howell said Fort McCoy’s artifact collection contains more than 600,000 artifacts ranging in age from Native American artifacts more than 12,000 years old to 1942-45 World War II-era military artifacts.
“The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center is the closest federally sanctioned curation facility to Fort McCoy and has a long history of working with the installation’s cultural resource management program,” Howell said. “Most of the Fort McCoy (archaeology) staff and others have worked or trained with the program over the years. Plus, most scientific interest in the Fort McCoy collections would most likely come from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse archaeology program or scholars visiting it to see other collections.”
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