Tracing the Midwest Fur Trade with Archaeological Chemistry

During the 17th to early 19th centuries, European and Euro-American fur traders brought exchange items, including vermilion pigment, as gifts and payments to their Indigenous trade partners around the Great Lakes region. The speaker will share results from an interdisciplinary project at the AD 1793-1835 Northwest Company and American Trade Post on Madeline Island, Wisconsin. The results of this collaborative study help better understand fur trade activities in the Midwest and beyond.