Archaeology
Ancient America: Florida BCE
American Indians occupied, utilized, and developed the peninsula known as Florida for thousands of years. Our knowledge of the ancient past-of Florida, BCE-comes primarily from […]
Archaeology
The Archaeology of Head-Smashed-In, Alberta
Archaeology is the study of the past through material remains. One of the goals of archaeology is discovery and description. Discovery and description, however, is […]
Ancient America: The Buffalo Hunt
At the beginning of the European invasion of North America, there may have been as many as 75 million buffalo on the Great Plains. For […]
Ancient America: Eating a Buffalo
For the Plains Indians, for many thousands of years, the buffalo (more properly called bison) was a walking supermarket providing them with food, clothing, shelter, […]
The Northeastern Late Woodland Period
The time period from about 400 CE to 900 CE in northeastern North America is called the Late Woodland period by archaeologists. This was a […]
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 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 […]