![]() Historic and archaeological sites are protected on federal lands like Fort McCoy. In fact, archaeological sites on three of the four corners had produced enough artifacts to lead investigators to recommend that the archaeological sites at these locations were worthy of listing on the National Register of Historic Places.īecause these locations had significant scientific research potential for understanding the history and prehistory of the Fort McCoy area, the trail stabilization activities would have caused damage to the irreplaceable scientific information within those archaeological sites. Such stabilization would normally be strictly an engineering effort, except that archaeological materials had been recovered from all four corners around the intersection of the stream and trail area where a failed culvert needed to be replaced to stabilize the stream crossing. Several years ago, archaeologists with Colorado State University’s Center for the Environmental Management of Military Lands (CSU/CEMML) undertook an excavation unlike any previously performed at Fort McCoy.Ī tank trail crossing a small stream was badly eroding and required significant improvements to stabilize. An article highlighting the significance of these bracelet fragments, as well as other related artifacts, was published in the 101st volume of The Wisconsin Archaeologist. The bracelets are thought to date to an 1800-1830s era camp of Ho-Chunk tribal members. Copper bracelet fragments found at a Fort McCoy archaeological site are shown above. ![]()
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