The Hamline University Center for Anthropological Services was awarded a Minnesota Historical & Cultural Heritage Grant for a project at the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry in Mower County, Minnesota.
For thousands of years Native people obtained chert, a special stone for making tools, at a location near the modern town of Grand Meadow. The project supported by this grant will apply an Indigenous-centered archaeology approach to test the effectiveness of ground penetrating radar for exploring buried features at the site. The fieldwork will be carried out by HUCAS and the Hamline Archaeology Field School, with support from the Archaeology Department of the Minnesota Historical Society and the Mower County Historical Society, and with advisory oversight from the Dakota Communities at Lower Sioux and Prairie Island.
This grant is financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.
