Des Moines Register — On six acres of farm field near the Iowa River, a gaggle of volunteers sifted through rich soil in search of fragments left behind by the original Iowans.
I’m not talking “original” in terms of Iowa statehood in 1846.
I mean the Meskwaki and other Native American tribes who called this valley home ages before famous farmer Chris Soules became our snogging, prancing state emblem.
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Cindy Nagel, a full-time archaeologist in Iowa City, is studying the site as part of her master’s thesis for St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
She has been “trying to find when and why (the Meskwaki) went to mostly European-made goods” in a major “shift in material culture and the ways of life.”
