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The costs associated with a field trip can add up quickly. 

MPM's Fossil Fuel Fund may be able to help alleviate some of these costs. The process is easy: Simply book your field trip, then apply for a Fossil Fuel Fund award.

Cosmic Curiosities

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Prehistoric Pfahlbau (“pile dwellings”) settlements dotted the Swiss lakeshores between 3,000 and 6,400 years ago, during what is now known as the European Neolithic.

One of the best-known examples of a Pfahlbau settlement is Robenhausen, located just east of Zurich, Switzerland. The inhabitants were largely sedentary agriculturalists who built their wattle-and-daub homes both near and on the lake, which provided for many of the settlements’ needs.

Mississippian Culture, Cahokia, and Its Relationship to Aztalan

Around 800 A.D. Late Woodland Indian cultures in the Midwest made a shift to more extensive maize (corn) horticulture and by 1000 A.D. had organized a complex society referred to by archaeologists as Middle Mississippian. This distinct cultural name is derived from its development in the central part of the Mississippi River valley.

Cosmic Curiosities

"Do not look at stars as bright spots only.

The Aztalan collection of the Milwaukee Public Museum is composed of over 3,600 archaeological artifacts primarily excavated and collected by Dr. Samuel A. Barrett in the field seasons of 1919, 1920, and 1932. This collection is the largest assemblage of cultural remains from a single North American archaeological site in the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Cosmic Curiosities

“A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the

Cosmic Curiosities

“May you build a ladder to the stars