Ancient America
Ancient America: The Vikings
Shortly after the Norse colonization of Greenland under Erik the Red in 986, there were reports by the Viking sea kings of three new lands […]
Ancient America
Ancient America: Pictographs
For thousands of years Indian people left evidence of their presence on the land with rock art: pictographs and petroglyphs. Pictographs are created by painting […]
Ancient America: The McKeithen Mounds in Florida
There were a number of ancient American Indian cultures which constructed large earthen mounds in what is now the eastern portion of the United States. […]
Ancient America: Angel Mounds
About 650 CE some trends were beginning to emerge in the American Bottom area near the Mississippi River in Illinois which would culminate in the […]
Ancient America: The Maya City of Coba
Cobá was a Maya city located in the northern portion of the Maya region on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Most of the city was […]
Ancient America: Shiloh
Mississippian is a cultural complex whose hearth appears to be in the American Bottom area near the Mississippi River in Illinois. The most spectacular characteristic […]
Ancient America: Tulum, a Maya Port
Tulum, located on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, was one of the last cities built and inhabited by the Maya. The earliest date found on […]
Ancient America: The Gods of Palenque
For most people, the Maya and the Aztec are the best-known Mesoamerican cultures. The area occupied by the Maya included southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, […]
Ancient America: Tiwanaku
While the Inka are the best-known pre-Columbian civilization in South America, there were other earlier and longer-lasting highly developed civilizations. Tiwanaku (also spelled Tiahuanaco and […]
Ancient America: Nevada
What is now the state of Nevada was home to American Indian people for several millennia prior to the arrival of the first Europeans in […]