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Archaeologist will share pre-European history of St. Croix Valley during online event

Dr. Ed Fleming of the Science Museum of Minnesota has found evidence of people going back thousands of years.

By St. Croix 360 | October 29, 2020 | 2 minute read

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Via the Marine Community Library:

Woodland pottery
Stone point
Oneota arrow points from the Sheffield Site
Oneota arrow points from the Sheffield Site (Greg Seitz, St. Croix 360)

A few photos from Ed Fleming’s archaeological research. (Greg Seitz, St. Croix 360)

Archaeology and Native History of the St. Croix River Valley
with Dr. Edward Fleming, Curator of Anthropology, Science Museum of Minnesota
November 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81644305974

The St. Croix River Valley holds a record of human and environmental interactions spanning more than 10,000 years. Archaeological sites near Marine have provided new evidence about the lives of indigenous peoples who inhabited the valley long before Europeans arrived.

Join Dr. Ed Fleming to learn about SMM’s research, spanning studies from 1959 to the present day.

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