Archaeology
Ancient America: The Mayan Ball Game
The Mesoamerican ball game was played throughout Mesoameria-Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras. In addition, a version of the game was played by the Hohokam […]
Archaeology
Ancient America: 1,500 Years Ago
A thousand years before the Spanish invasion of the Americas began, American Indians were living throughout North America. Furthermore, they had lived on this continent […]
Ancient America: Rock Art
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: 8,000 Years Ago
Eight thousand years ago, the people in the British Isles as well as in most of Europe were still living as hunters and gatherers. They […]
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: 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: Adena
( – promoted by navajo) About 3,000 years ago, the Indian people living in the Ohio River valley in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky began […]
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 […]