Ancient America
Ancient America: The Mammoth Hunters
As the ice fields that had covered the northern portion of North America began to retreat, new environments were created. North America looked very different […]
Ancient America
Ancient America: The Classic Maya
( – promoted by navajo) At the height of the Classic Period (200 CE to 900 CE), the Maya population numbered several million people living […]
Ancient America: 5,000 Years Ago
( – promoted by navajo) It is not uncommon for accounts of American history to begin in the fifteenth century with the Spanish voyages of […]
Ancient America: Some Ancient Buffalo Hunters
( – promoted by navajo) About 11,000 years ago, the North American climate changed: it became warmer (by about 13 degrees Fahrenheit) and drier. There […]
Ancient America: Misconceptions about Moundbuilders
( – promoted by navajo) As the first Europeans began to move into the Ohio River valley area, they found numerous ancient earthen mounds. Many […]
Ancient America: Utah
( – promoted by navajo) Ten thousand years ago, Native American people in what is now Utah had a lifeway that was centered around a […]
Ancient America: Kolomoki Mounds
( – promoted by navajo) More than a thousand years before the first Europeans arrived in North America, American Indians had developed complex civilizations which […]
Ancient America: The Olmec
( – promoted by navajo) The Aztec were only the last of many great civilizations in Mexico. The mother civilization of all of the Mesoamerican […]
Ancient America: Maine’s Indian Heritage
( – promoted by navajo) At the time of the first European contact in the sixteenth century, there were an estimated 30,000 Abenaki people living […]
Ancient America: Cahokia
( – promoted by navajo) A thousand years ago one of the largest cities in the world was located across the Mississippi River from present-day […]