36 days left until Canoecopia! March 7 - 9
Canoecopia is presented by
Location
Alliant Energy Center
1919 Alliant Energy Way
Madison, Wisconsin
Show Hours
Friday: 3 PM to 8 PM
Saturday: 9 AM to 6 PM
Sunday: 10 AM to 4 PM
Tickets
1-Day: $17.00
3-Day: $35.00
Ages 17 and under are FREE
Cash or check only for tickets purchased at the event
Parking Fees
1-Day: $8.00
Cash or credit, fees collected by Alliant Energy Center
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Presenting Sponsor
Location
Alliant Energy Center
1919 Alliant Energy Way
Madison, Wisconsin
Show Hours
Friday: 3 PM to 8 PM
Saturday: 9 AM to 6 PM
Sunday: 10 AM to 4 PM
Tickets
1-Day: $17.00
3-Day: $35.00
Ages 17 and under are FREE
Cash or check only for tickets purchased at the event
Parking Fees
1-Day: $8.00
Cash or credit, fees collected by Alliant Energy Center
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Tamara Thomsen
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Tamara Thomsen is a Maritime Archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society. Her research has resulted in the nomination of fifty-nine submerged sites to the National Register of Historic Places. She has received awards from the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society, and in 2014, she was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame. In 2021 she discovered a cache of dugout canoes in Lake Mendota (Madison Wisconsin) that includes canoes which date amongst some of the oldest in eastern North America. |
Also Presenting With
Sissel Schroeder
Sissel Schroeder is a professor of archaeology in the Anthropology Department at UW-Madison. Her research focuses on the archaeology of the southeastern United States and the Midwest, and has ranged from studying the earliest peoples in Wisconsin that archaeologists call Paleoindians to investigating sources of social power, networks of relationships, climate change, the environment, and other factors related to the emergence, florescence, and fragmentation of ancient complex societies and the persistence of people and their traditions.
Presentations
Tamara Thomsen, Sissel Schroeder
Ancient Canoe Caches of Wisconsin
Algonquin - main floor Fri 4:30pm-5:15pm
Bear - upstairs Sun 1:30pm-2:15pm
In May 2024, the Wisconsin Historical Society announced the discovery of up to 11 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin ranging back to 4,500 years ago. The canoes were found submerged in what archaeologists believe was once an ancient shoreline. Caching, or the sinking of dugout canoes to store them during the winter, was a common practice in the past and such cached canoe have been found in other lakes and rivers throughout Wisconsin. Learn what to look for and what to do when you find cached canoes and help us document these rare Indigenous heritage resources.
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