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Melvin L. Fowler

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Life

In 1953, Fowler was awarded a PhD from the University of Chicago; he had already begun his work excavating the Modoc Rock Shelter at Modoc, Illinois. With support from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he became a professor in 1966, Fowler led many of the excavations and discoveries at Cahokia. Today, the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is a 2,200-acre site that contains the ruins of a sophisticated prehistoric native civilization which existed from about 700 to 1400 AD. It was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.

Fowler was awarded the "distinguished career award" by The Midwest Archeological Conference in 2008.

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