United Fund for the Arts and Humanities - UFAH

10/01/2026

Reading reco 📖

Bill Gresens’ Archaeology Book Review for October 2026

“The Lost Pope” by Glen Cooper (4/4 trowels)

Harvard professor of Archaeology & Religion Cal Donovan comes to the aid of a former student who has discovered a fragment of papyrus that could shake the world of Christianity to its core!

Read the entire review at: https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/book-reviews/?review=387452

09/28/2026

Rock art!

09/25/2026

Enamel

This enameled cookware came from a late 1800s general store and apothecary site in Prairie du Chien. Around 1850, Americans began owning enamel-lined culinary utensils that were very plain. During the 1860s, enameled cast-iron pots were produced. By the 1870s, enameled kitchen ware was popular, and styles of enameled goods included spatter, speckled, and splashed designs.

09/15/2026

🎶 Tonight is the night! 🎶
We can't wait to welcome our new semester of singers and their families!

Missed auditions and want more info? Email us at [email protected] to learn more!

Can't wait to see you tonight!

09/14/2026

09/14/2026

What's up!

MVAC e-News for September 2026

Find out what’s happening at MVAC in the September 2026 e-News – Availability, upcoming lecture by Connie Arzigian, MVAC Video Glossary – Knives vs Scrapers, Gresens reviews “Caesarion” by Jack O’Brien (4/4 trowels), news and new MVAC Web content.

Read MVAC e-News for September 2026 at:
https://mailchi.mp/c534b4c3398f/mvac-e-news-september-2026

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09/14/2026

Knives and scraping tools are easy to recognize in their modern form, and the same principles apply for stone tools. In this video MVAC Senior Research Associate Dr. Connie Arzigian will look at the factors that make each kind of tool efficient. The knife should be sharp, probably straight or slightly curved, and with a thin edge, and it might be serrated. Scrapers will usually be flat along the bottom, with a beveled edge on the top. They will be straight to convex. The edges will be smooth so as to avoid jagged spots that might rip the surface.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/pW-muncG3hk

09/14/2026

Thanks to Jim Theler for this week’s post -

Extinct forms of bison once roamed this region. The first mention of the Rud bison came in a 1939 letter to Charles E Brown, Director of the State Historical Museum, telling of a large bison skull and another partial skull exposed by erosion in a stream in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. They came from a distinctive blue-grey clay below a peat deposit. A follow-up visit in 1992 by Jim Theler and Ernie Boszhardt of MVAC found nearly 100 additional well-preserved bison remains in the stream bed. These included a cranium that spanned 29 inches from tip to tip of the horn cores (top). The remains are identified as Bison bison occidentalis and may represent at least 4 individuals, including a subadult. No excavations have taken place at the site, and no artifacts have yet been found associated with these remains. Pictured is the Rud bison cranium (top) compared to a modern bison (bottom). Note the much larger size of the Rud bison, and the different shape of the horn core.

09/14/2026