Alex Rose, left, and Jasmine Devant, of Jefferson, take in the sunset Monday from atop a historic earthen platform mound at Aztalan State Park near Lake Mills. On Saturday, archeologists and anthropologists will lead tours of the park, where nearly 1,000 years ago Cahokian people occupied this spot and built a fortified village along the Crawfish River.
A piece of pottery created by a Late Woodland Indian tribal member is displayed during a 2015 excavation effort by the UW-Madison Department of Anthropology at Aztalan State Park.
Sissel Schroeder, an anthropology professor at UW-Madison, describes a piece of survey equipment as she welcomes sixth-graders from Fort Atkinson Middle School visiting Aztalan State Park in 2019.
Then-UW-Madison students Jessica Button and Gabby Peterson work in 2015 in a 2-foot-deep square hole that may have been part of a house that had been part of Aztalan, now a state park and one of the state's premier archeological sites.
Heather Walden, then a UW-Madison Department of Anthropology graduate student, sends dirt through a sifter during a 2015 excavation effort at Aztalan State Park east of Lake Mills.
Alex Rose, left, and Jasmine Devant, of Jefferson, take in the sunset Monday from atop a historic earthen platform mound at Aztalan State Park near Lake Mills. On Saturday, archeologists and anthropologists will lead tours of the park, where nearly 1,000 years ago Cahokian people occupied this spot and built a fortified village along the Crawfish River.
A piece of pottery created by a Late Woodland Indian tribal member is displayed during a 2015 excavation effort by the UW-Madison Department of Anthropology at Aztalan State Park.
Then-UW-Madison students Jessica Button and Gabby Peterson work in 2015 in a 2-foot-deep square hole that may have been part of a house that had been part of Aztalan, now a state park and one of the state's premier archeological sites.
Sissel Schroeder, an anthropology professor at UW-Madison, describes a piece of survey equipment as she welcomes sixth-graders from Fort Atkinson Middle School visiting Aztalan State Park in 2019.
Heather Walden, then a UW-Madison Department of Anthropology graduate student, sends dirt through a sifter during a 2015 excavation effort at Aztalan State Park east of Lake Mills.
