Ancient America
Ancient America: The Birth and Death of a Pueblo
In 1245 CE, the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) began construction on the Sand Canyon Pueblo in Colorado. The pueblo is located at the head of a […]
Ancient America
Ancient Michigan
European interest in the area which would later become the state of Michigan began in the seventeenth century and was driven by two concerns: (1) […]
Montezuma Castle National Monument
By 7000 BCE, American Indians were living in Arizona’s Verde Valley. While these earliest inhabitants of the area had a hunting and gathering subsistence, by […]
The Antiquities Act
Interest in a scientific understanding of the history of North America prior to the European invasion and a desire to obtain legislation to protect our […]
Ancient Minnesota
When the first French fur traders arrived in Minnesota in the 17th century, they found that the area was occupied by Indian nations from two […]
Chaco Culture National Historic Park
More than a thousand years ago, the Ancestral Puebloans constructed a number of larges pueblos in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The ruins of these ancient […]
Ancient South America: Patagonia
Humans-Homo sapiens-have lived in South America for at least 15,000 years and possibly longer. The earliest period of human occupation is generally called the Lithic […]
The Ancestors of the Iroquois
When the Dutch and the French, and later the English, began to enter into what would become New York State searching for trading partners in […]
Ancient America: Ocmulgee
Some time before 900 CE, people begin migrating into what will become present-day Georgia from the area around the Mississippi River near present-day St. Louis. […]
Ancient America: Moundville, Alabama
Mississippian is a cultural complex whose hearth appears to be in the American Bottom area near the Mississippi River in Illinois. It is characterized by: […]