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This list of the prehistoric life of Wisconsin contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Wisconsin contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wisconsin and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
Lapham examining a meteorite which had fallen in Wisconsin in 1868 The Silurian trilobite Calymene celebra; Wisconsin's state fossil. Polymath naturalist Increase Allen Lapham is regarded as Wisconsin's first geologist. [11] During the late 1830s Lapham discovered a wide variety of fossils in great abundance in some rocky hills near Milwaukee. [5]
Man Mound, located in Sauk County near Baraboo, is the last surviving human-form ancient effigy mound in the world. He's an imposing figure on the landscape, standing more two football fields long ...
About 3,000 years ago, indigenous people of the Ho Chunk Nation in the Lake Mendota region carved a dugout canoe, the Wisconsin Historical Society said in a news release on Thursday, Sept. 22. A ...
Glacial Lake Wisconsin 20,000 years ago with modern counties for geographical context. Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 18,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in the central part of present-day Wisconsin in the United States.
A recently created lesson plan for Wisconsin teachers gives guidance to discuss how ancient peoples viewed solar eclipses in Wisconsin.
The Carcajou Point site (47JE2, aka the Carcajou site, Carcajou village or White Crow's village) is located in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, on Lake Koshkonong.It is a multi-component site with prehistoric Upper Mississippian Oneota and Historic components.