Ancient America
Ancient America: Montana Prior to 6000 BCE
While the region of North America known today as Montana entered into written Euro-American histories in the early nineteenth century with the Corps of Discovery […]
Ancient America
Ancient America: The Lower Columbia River Area
In 1805, the American Corps of Discovery under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made its way down the lower Columbia River. This […]
Ancient America: A Plateau Clovis Cache
As the ice age was ending in North America, a new hunting technology arose. This technology, commonly known as Clovis after a find in New […]
Ancient America: The Northeast Prior to 8000 BCE
The Northeastern Woodlands of North America is a land of heavily forested rolling hills and rounded mountains, salt marshes of waving grass, calm lakes, tumbling […]
Ancient America: Coastal Oregon, 13,000 to 7,500 Years Ago
The Oregon coast is a part of the larger Northwest Coast culture area which stretches from the Tlingit homelands in Alaska to the Tolowa homelands in […]
Ancient America: Stone Quarries
Like human beings everywhere, Indians used stone as their primary material for toolmaking for thousands of years. At the time of the European arrival on […]
Ancient America: Great Basin Oregon, 12,900 to 9,000 Years Ago
About 12,900 years ago there was an abrupt change in climatic conditions known as the Younger Dryas which marked the beginning of cooler conditions in […]
Tlatilco, an Ancient Site in the Valley of Mexico
For most people the mention of ancient Mexico brings up images of the Aztecs, the Mayas, and perhaps the ancient city of Teotihucán. Ancient Mexico, […]
Ancient America: Florida, 1 CE to 940 CE
American Indians occupied, utilized, and developed the peninsula known as Florida for thousands of years. Our knowledge of the ancient past—of Florida, from 2,000 years […]
Ancient America: Florida, BCE
With exciting new finds coming from the OldVero Ice Age Site in Florida which are providing evidence of human occupation 14,000 years ago, this is […]