On Saturday April 25, 2026 from 5:00-7:00pm in the Honors College (HON 196), 3363 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211 the Hortus Academicus/Brew Garden initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will hold a tasting competition with three judges choosing the top three brews, all of whom are professionals associated with local businesses involved in brewing, dispensing, and/or reporting on fermented beverages.

The judges for 2026 are: Jerry Janiszewksi (Wisconsin Historical Foundation Board of Directors, Old World Wisconsin Historic Brewhouse Consultant), Daniel Kern (Head Brewer at Water Street Brewery), Rob Novak (Director, Old World Wisconsin Brewing Experience). There will also be a People’s Choice award with non-contestants casting their votes via ballot for their favorite brew. Joe Yeado has generously agreed to offer the winner the opportunity to brew their beer using the pilot brewing system at Gathering Place in River West with a launch party at GP to follow.

Any brews with archaeological/historical pedigrees are welcome (i.e., based on specific finds or documentary evidence for a particular Nordic grog, medieval gruit, or other beer) but feel free to experiment. We’ll also be asking all entrants to provide a grain bill/recipe as well as a few images presenting the story of their entry in the form of a short PowerPoint. Check out past entries at and

Instructions on how to submit can be found here: /anthropology/calling-all-brewers-uwms-5th-unhopped-iron-brewer-challenge-is-now-accepting-submissions/

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A new open-access archaeology lab has just dropped! 51ÁÔĆć Support for Undergraduate Research (SURF) students Elsie Touchstone and Rachel Stewart along with their research mentor, Dr. Shannon Freire, presented their co-created Archaeological Dating Lab at the 2024 Midwest Archeological Conference (MAC) meeting. Use the QR code to access all relevant materials. The materials are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeĚý4.0 International license. Stay tuned for additional posts about 51ÁÔĆć Department of Anthropology students at the MAC!

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Unfortunately, our November 6th Colloquium has been cancelled due to illness.

More information coming soon!

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On Saturday April 6, 2024 from 5:00-7:00pm in the Honors College (HON 196), 3363 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211 the Hortus Academicus/Brew Garden initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will hold a tasting competition with three judges choosing the top three brews, all of whom are professionals associated with local businesses involved in brewing, dispensing, and/or reporting on fermented beverages.

The judges for 2024 are: Joe Yeado, Gathering Place Brewing; Jerry Janiszewski, Pabst Mansion and Wisconsin Historical Foundation Board of Directors; Rob Novak, The Brewing Experience, Old World Wisconsin. There will also be a People’s Choice award with non-contestants casting their votes via ballot for their favorite brew. Joe Yeado has generously agreed to offer the winner the opportunity to brew their beer using a new pilot brewing system at Gathering Place in River West with a launch party at GP to follow.

Read about the Unhopped Iron Brewer Challenge here for more information.

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Aaron R. Atencio, PhD
Research Curator of Cultural Sciences
Milwaukee Public Museum

ĚýFriday March 15, 2024 @ 3:30 pm
Sabin Hall G-90, UW-Milwaukee

(Some photographs in this presentation will show distressing subjects.)

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María Constanza Ceruti is an archaeologist, anthropologist, and mountaineer with an impressive list of accomplishments. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1973 and her parents, who were both doctors, took her to many museums and libraries during her childhood. Observing ancient artifacts and reading about past cultures, Ceruti developed a fascination with prehistory and archaeology. She studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and completed her bachelor’s degree in 1996. One year prior to graduation she visited the Andes for the first time and, after experiencing a powerful sense of connection to the mountains, she decided to train as a mountaineer. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Ceruti began her doctoral studies at the University of Cuyo, which is located in Mendoza, Argentina, only a few hours from the Andes. This close proximity to the mountain range was perfect for a burgeoning mountaineer and she ascended many Andean peaks, often searching for archaeological sites on her way to the summit. Ceruti excelled in her studies at the University of Cuyo and in 1998 she was part of a team that excavated on the upper slopes of Misti, an active volcano near Arequipa, Peru, making her the first high-altitude, female archaeologist. The following year she was chosen to co-direct four high-altitude archaeological expeditions with Johan Reinhard, a veteran Andean archaeologist. On the first climb, the team found a looted gravesite where the remains of a mummified Inca child were scattered and most of the artifacts had been removed. The second expedition involved ascending the Llullaillaco volcano following the ancient Inca climbing trails and culminating in the discovery three well-preserved Inca mummies. These mummies, now dubbed the Children of Llullaillaco, are considered some of the best preserved mummies in the world and the gravesite where they were found is the site of the highest excavation in the world.

Ceruti completed her doctorate in anthropology in 2001 and took a job managing a small museum in the foothills of the Andes where she lived in a small adobe house in a tiny village called Pucará de Tilcara. While living there, she became interested in the villagers’ lifeways and ritual practices, both of which were similar to those of pre-Inca and Inca cultures. Based on this experience, Ceruti developed an interest in sacred mountain spaces throughout the world. After managing the museum for five years, she became a professor of archaeology and director of the Institute of High Mountain Research at the Catholic University in Salta, Argentina. Ceruti also continued to explore mountains, travelling to and ascending peaks on every contentment except Antarctica. She has climbed to the summit of more than one hundred mountains over 16,500 feet (5,000 meters) and studied sacred mountain spaces in over 20 countries. Ceruti has authored over 100 academic publications and more than 25 books, and made an impact on many areas of study including Inca archaeology, Andean studies, ethnohistory, landscape archaeology, conservation of cultural and natural heritage, religious studies, tourism, glacial archaeology, and high altitude archaeology. She won the Wings WorldQuest Courage Award in 2007, the National Award for Academic Vocation in Argentina in 2008, and was the first Argentinian invited to speak at the TED global meeting in Oxford in 2009. In 2017, Ceruti received the Gold Medal from the International Society of Women Geographers and in 2019 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in Argentina.

References

“Maria Constanza Ceruti: Adventurer, artist, historian, mountaineer, researcher.” (n.d.) National Geographic Society

“Mountain Researcher Constanza Ceruti Gold Medalist of ISWG.” (2017) Mountain Research Initiative

Ross, Michael Elsohn (2014) A World of Her Own: 24 amazing women explorers. Chicago Review Press: Chicago.

“SWG Currently Featured Member: Maria Constanza Ceruti.” (n.d.) Society of Women Geographers

Wings WorldQuest (n.d.)

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Born is 1911, Harriet M. Smith was the first female archaeologist in Illinois and led early excavations at Cahokia including the salvage excavation of Murdock Mound (Mound 55). Smith received her Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago where she studied under Fay-Cooper Cole, who was one Franz Boas’ students. After graduating, she was hired by the Illinois State Museum as State Supervisor of the Museum Project in 1938. In 1940, a landowner adjacent to Cahokia Mounds Park began leveling a mound in preparation for house construction and discovered human remains. An archaeologist contacted the director of the Illinois State Museum, Thorne Deuel, who sent Smith to excavate Mound 55, where she supervised a crew of WPA archaeologists. Smith’s interpretations of the mound and Cahokia were generally rejected at the time but are consistent with our current understanding of the site. For example, she used ceramics and stratigraphy to accurately date the continuous occupation of Cahokia, suggested that Cahokia was a planned city with houses oriented on a north-south axis parallel to Monk’s Mound, and recognized that the foundations of houses themselves were dug into the ground rather than being built on the surface. Smith’s thorough excavation and analysis make Mound 55 one of the most completely excavated mounds at Cahokia.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, all excavations at the site came to an abrupt halt; at that point, Smith left the Illinois State Museum and joined the Chicago Field Museum’s education department. When speaking of the challenges she faced as a woman working in the field of archaeology during the late 1930s and 1940s, Smith said, “I assure you, my training and qualifications are adequate and the whole problem hinges on whether my prospective employers are willing to take a chance on a young woman, in what by precedent, is a man’s field.” For more information about Harriet M. Smith and other pioneering female archaeologists see this Midwest Archaeology Conference from 2017:

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