For the fifth year in a row, archaeologists, students and community members will work together on exploring the history that lies buried beneath our feet.

Everyone is welcome! No experience needed.

This year's site is located on 17th Street East between Park and Chicago Avenues, on the edge of downtown Minneapolis.

If you would like to learn more . . .

• Read what we know so far about this year's excavation site

• View information from the 2004 excavation

• View information from the 2005 excavation

• View information from the 2006 excavation

• View information from the 2007 excavation

• Visit the excavation: We invite you to visit the site while we're there, learn more about how archaeology works, and more about the early history of Minneapolis.

• Help with the excavation: You can help -- plus learn more about archaeology, Minneapolis history, and your community.

• Read a little bit about the basics of archaeology.

• Contact the project director, University of Minnesota graduate student Kent Bakken, or call Patricia Emerson at the Minnesota Historical Society, 612-725-2410, for more information.

You can also view information on a few simple cautions and precautions relating to helping with archaeological field work.

You can download our poster or postcards.

Many thanks to our project partners, who include Aeon: Archaeology Club, Cretin-Durham Hall High School: Archaeology Department, Minnesota Historical Society: Benedictine Health Center - Minneapolis: Council for Minnesota Archaeology: Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc.: e.p. atelier: Evolutionary Anthropology Labs, Anthropology Department, University of Minnesota: John M. Sirianni, UBS Financial Services, Inc.: John Tietz, Nelson, Tietz & Hoy: Regional Research Associates: Minnesota Archaeological Society: Summit Envirosolutions, Inc.: 10,000 Lakes Archaeology, LLC: www.placeography.org.: and others to be added as we go!

Updated August 5, 2008

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