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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Northwoods Archaeology: Uncovering the Value of Everyday Lives in the Past
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:24
	Publish Date:		2019-02-22 05:00:00
	Description:		Archaeology in the Northwoods is different than it is downstate, and it can serve as a window into the everyday lives of former Northwoods residents. As part of WXPR's We Live Up Here series, Ardis Berghoff has the story. When most people think of archaeology, the discovery of ancient civilizations in places like Egypt, Greece or Peru come to mind. But archaeologists work in the Northwoods, too. Snow covers the ground now, but archaeologists from the Wisconsin Historical Society will resume work on two projects in the Manitowish Waters area later this year. One involves wild-ricing sites that the Ojibwe established off-reservation in the late 19th and early 20th century. John Broihahn is Wisconsin's state archaeologist. “I think there was a general consensus that while reservations gave American Indian people places to live, they really didn’t give them a way to live and a way to make a living," he says. "So people continued to follow traditional pursuits like wild ricing and hunting
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