Archaeology
Ancient America: The Bighorn Medicine Wheel
( – promoted by navajo) The Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming is the best known of the many medicine wheels, and many people refer to […]
Archaeology
Ancient America: The Grand Canyon
About 17 million years ago, the Colorado River began to create the Grand Canyon. In terms of geology, the Grand Canyon is 277 miles long; […]
Ancient America: The Medicine Wheels
( – promoted by navajo) Throughout the Northern Plains of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, the Dakotas, and Wyoming there are 135 archaeological features commonly called Medicine […]
Ancient America: Besh-Ba-Gowah
( – promoted by oke) One example of a Salado Culture pueblo can be found near the city of Globe, Arizona. South of the city […]
Ancient America: Salado
( – promoted by navajo) Two thousand years ago, the Indian people who were living in the Tonto Basin area of Arizona were sophisticated gathering […]
Ancient America: The Rise of the Aztec Empire
( – promoted by navajo) The rise of the Aztec empire really began in 1150 with the fall of the Toltec empire. The Toltecs had […]
Ancient America: Poverty Point
( – promoted by navajo) One of the most intriguing archaeological sites in the United States was constructed nearly 4,000 years ago in Louisiana. At […]
Ancient America: Stone Architecture
( – promoted by navajo) By the time the first Europeans were beginning to explore and establish colonies in the Americas, Europeans considered stone architecture, […]
Ancient America: The Fort Ancient People
In northeastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, and western West Virginia, the culture which archaeologists call Fort Ancient flourished from 1000 CE to 1700 CE. […]
Ancient America: The Aztec
( – promoted by navajo) When the Spanish began their conquest of Mexico in 1519 they encountered a powerful nation known as the Aztec. The […]