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Current Issue: Fall 2021 Issue contains: Celebrating Minnesota Archaeology, Letter from the President, Mission Statement,
Editor’s Cornor, The Minnesota Archaeologist - Call for Papers, Kathio Highlights Archaeology and Rich Heritage, MAS
Annual Meeting 2021, Also of Interest
Summer 2021 Issue contains: Progress on the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry - An Update, Letter from the President, Mission
Statement, The Minnesota Archaeologist - Call for Papers, Editor’s Corner, Larry Furo New Recipient of Hill-Lewis Award,
Meet the New Editing Team, Upcoming Event - Mille Lacs Kathio State Park’s Archaeology Day
Spring (Jan-Mar) 2021 Issue contains: Profile: Zooarchaeo Consulting, Letter from the President, Thor Olmanson (1959-
2020), The Minnesota Archaeologist - Call for Papers, Thank You Longtime MnArch Editor Kent Bakken, Tinkling Cone
Found at Ft. Ridgely State Park
Winter (Oct-Dec) 2020 Issue contains: Meet Tom Stewart - Muralist and MAS Member, Letter from the President, Call for
Nominations: MAS 2021 Hill-Lewis Award, MAS Logo Change, Council for Minnesota Symposium Call for Sessions, Papers,
and Posters, The Anthropocene
Fall (Jul-Sept) 2020 Issue contains: Join US (Virtually) for a Panel Discussion of Bound by Earth, MAS @ AmazonSmile,
Letter from the President, Anna Morrow Receives Minnesota Archaeological Society’s 2020 Hill-Lewis Award, Minnesota
Archaeology Month (Now Virtual), Minnesota Archaeologist Update
Summer (Apr-Jun) 2020 Issue contains: Meet Jennifer Rankin, New Head of Archaeology at MNHS, Letter from the
President, In Memorian LeRoy Gonsior, In Memorian Guy Gibbon
Spring (Jan-Mar) 2020 Issue contains: Boiling Arch Archaeology, Letter from the President, Minnesota Archaeology Events,
Bound by Earth: Archaeology in Minnesota, Minnesota Archaeological Society Annual Dinner and Meeting
Winter (Oct-Dec) 2019 Issue contains: Art of Seeing, Letter from the President, In Memory of Pat Emerson, 2019 Kathio
Archaeology Day, MAS Hill-Lewis Award 2020 Call for Nominations, Minnesota Obsidian, Snowshoeing into the Past
Fall (Jul-Sept) 2019 Issue contains: History Matters Day Recap, Letter from the President, Archaeology Month Events, In
Memory of Christina Harrison, Kathio Ceramics from Alexander Lake
Summer (Apr-June) 2019 Issue contains: MAS Dinner Recap, Letter from the President, Hill-Lewis Award 2019
Announcement, In Memory of Rod Johnson, Announcements, Archaeology Program at Mille Lacs Katio State Park, The
Minnesota Archaeologist Publishing Update, Cambria Ceramics (1000-1300 AD) from the Cambria Site Technology
Spring (Jan-Mar) 2019 Issue contains: History Matters-Call to Action, Letter from the President, Hill-Lewis Award 2019
Announcement, 2019 Lake Superior Basin Workshop, Announcements, MAS Annual Dinner, In Memory: Toby Morrow, Pitted
Anvilstones are Technological Markers of Bipolar Lithic Technology
Fall (Oct-Dec) 2018 Issue contains: Three Questions: Dr. Michael Nowak, Letter from the President, CMA Symposium - Call
for Sessions, Papers, and Posters, It It an Artifact? by Bob Suchanek, Event Update: Archaeology Fair & Archaeology Day,
Interesting Oneota Vessel from Lake Mille Lacs
Summer (July-September) 2018
Issue contains; Minnesota Archaeological Society Hill-Lewis Award, A Tribute to Rhoda R Gilman (1927-2018), Minnesota
Archaeology Month-September 2018, Report on Minnesota Archaeology Day 2017, Hannaford Vessel from Lake Bemidji
State Park
Spring (March-May) 2018 Issue contains; MAS Annual Meeting and Dinner, Letter from the President, Upcoming Events,
Pareidolia, Persistence, and Provenience, The Art of Making an Archaeology Documentary - Part 1, Three Questions with Dr.
Sean Dunham (CNF Archaeologist), Featured Artifact: Lake Bemidji Point
Dec 2017-Feb 2018
Issue contains; A Brief History of an Archaeological Illustrator, Letter from the President, Upcoming Events, 4 Questions with
John Reynolds, Hill-Lewis Award: Call for Nominations, Featured Artifact: Gunflints
Fall (July-September) 2017
Issue contains; Dan Wendt (MAS President) Receives Crabtree Award, Letter from the President, Archaeology Month
Events, Thank You to Jim Cummings, Featured Artifact: Drills
Summer (April-June) 2017
Issue contains: The Amelia Earhart Mystery: 80 Years On, Upcoming Events, Recently Held Events, Keith Manthie,
Archaeologist, Douglas A. Birk Memorial, Stephen Mulholland Memorial, Featured Artifact: Avonlea Projectile Point from Blue
Mounds State Park
Spring (January-March) 2017
Issue contains: MAS Annual Meeting and Dinner, Letter from the President, Upcoming Events, Council for Minnesota
Archaeology, Leech Lake Heritage Sites Program, Tom Sanders Retirement, Featured Artifact: Havanoid Sherd
October-December 2016
Issue contains: Archaeology at Stone Saloon, Letter from the President, Announcements, Three Questions, Fall Time
Events, Thank You to Debbie Schoenholz, Featured Artifact: Dalton Adze
Summer 2016
Issue contains: Gonsier and Cummings Retire, Amanda Gronhovd, Archaeology Week, MAS Annual Meeting, Archaeology
@ Vadnais Lake, New Technology at Konkle Cave, Robert Boszhardt
Winter 2016
Issue contains: Annual Meeting, Rhoda Gilman, Letter from the President, Winter Solstice, Kathio Archaeology Day, Dates to
Remember, Jeffrey Paul Tordoff 1947-2015, Anfinson Retires, Verlmilion Updates
Summer 2015 Issue contains: 1,000 Year-Old Seeds, Swede Hollow, Letter from the President, Dates to Remember, Stearns
County Archaeology Day Camp
Spring 2015
Issue contains: Fort Snelling Inventory Project, Letter from the President, Historical Society Collaborative, Dates to
Remember, MAS 2015 Annual Meeting
Winter 2015
Issue contains: Snowshoeing to Petaga Point, Letter from the President, MAS 2015 Annual Meeting, Dates to Remember,
Lake Superior Basin Workshop, 2015 CMA Conference
Fall 2014
Issue contains: Archaeology Fair, In Memory of Alan Woolworth, Central States Anthropology Meeting info
Spring 2014
Issue contains: A Multicomponent Site on MN River Valley, Rhoda Gilman Honored, Archaeology & Oil Go Boom in ND
Winter 2014
Issue contains: Uncovering the Past in Minnesota, Lithics Materials Workship, In Memory of Douglas C. George
Fall 2013
Issue contains: MN Archaeology Fair, Letter From President, Video Lending Library, Archaeology Day at Mille Lacs Kathio
Spring 2013
Issue contains: Minnesota’s precontact cultures, Annual Dinner Meeting, Society for Industrial Archaeology Conference
Fall 2012
Issue contains: Archaeology of the Central Mpls Riverfront, 2012 Archaeology Fair, 2013 Council for Mn Archaeology Symposium
Summer 2012
Issue contains: Review of Across Atlantic Ice, Portrait of the Cave Artist, the 2012 Annual Meeting overview, historic travel route
Winter 2012
Issue contains: A look back into MAS History, MAS Annual Dinner Meeting details, The First First Americans
Fall 2011
Issue contains: A look back into MAS History, A Mille Lacs History Lesson: One Short Chapter At A Time, Past MAS Covers
Summer 2011
Issue contains: Elliot Park Neighborhood Archaeology Project, Preservation of Pilot Knob/Oheyawahi, Archaeology Site At Pig Point
Spring 2011
Issue contains: Investigating the Earliest Human Occupation of MN, 11,500-year old Bones Of Child Found, 2011 Annual Meeting
Winter 2011
Issue contains: Widespread Looting Is Ravaging Indian Ruins, 2011 CMA Call for Papers/ Posters, Soar With The Eagles S.O.A.R.
Fall 2010
Issue contains: Knife Lake Research Presented At Macalester, Unearthing Our Prehistoric Past, 2011 CMA Call for Papers/ Posters
Summer 2010
Issue contains: Kensington Stone, Hidatsa Pottery Fire Site, Oldest Leather Shoe, 10,000-year-old Wooden Hunting Weapon
Spring 2010
Issue contains: MAS Annual Meeting Info, Lithic Materials Workshop, Upcoming Flintknapping Demos, 2009 Journal News
Winter 2010
Issue contains: Knife Lake Quarries, Lithic Materials Workshop, National Park Service’s 2010 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
Summer 2009
Issue contains: Hamline University’s Aniakchak Archaeology Project, Legacy Funds Will Benefit Archaeology
Winter/Spring 2009
Issue contains: MAS Annual Meeting and Lecture, Rock Art of the Upper Mississippi River Valley’s Driftless Area, Legacy Act
Late Summer 2008
Issue contains: Elliot Park Neighborhood Archaeology Project Update, A Short History of Minnesota Statehood
Early Summer 2008
Issue contains: Hudson-Meng Site, Officer Elections, Hennepin County History Museum
Spring 2008
Issue contains: Digging up Whiskey Row Talk, Mike Budak Memorial Fund, 50 Years of the Minnesota Archaeologist
Summer 2007
Issue contains: Digging up Whiskey Row, MAS Annual Meeting Recap and Photos
Spring 2007
Issue contains: CMA Symposium, MAS Annual Meeting Info, St. Cloud State University Sponsors New Graduate Program
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