Archaeology
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 […]
Archaeology
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: […]
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: 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 […]