Archaeology
Mesoamerican Figurines (Photo Diary)
In major museums, only a small fraction of the artifacts held by the museum are on display and interpreted for the public. Most of the […]
Archaeology
Ancient America: Columbia River Pictographs
For more than 10,000 years Indian people have lived adjacent to the Columbia River. In the Columbia Gorge area, hundreds, if not thousands, of archaeological […]
Ancient America: American Indians at Rancho La Brea
For thousands of years, American Indians used the asphalt from the tar seeps of Rancho La Brea in what is now Los Angeles, California, for […]
Aztec Figurines
In major museums, only a small fraction of the artifacts held by the museum are on display and interpreted for the public. Most of the […]
Ancient America: Stone Artifacts from the Columbia Plateau
The Maryhill Museum located near Goldendale, Washington, has a display of Plateau stone artifacts. The Plateau Culture Area is the area between the Cascade Mountains […]
Ancient America: Carved Stone Figures in the Plateau
The Maryhill Museum located near Goldendale, Washington, has a display of Plateau stone artifacts. The Plateau Culture Area is the area between the Cascade Mountains […]
Ancient America: Mesoamerican Stelae
Mesoamerica is the area from Mexico south through Panama. In this geographic area, a number of complex cultures emerged with subsistence patterns based on agriculture […]
Ancient America: The Great Basin Archaic Period
The Great Basin is an area that includes the high desert regions between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. It is bounded on the […]
Ancient America: Vikings and Indians
More than a thousand years ago, the Norse—commonly called Vikings—had expanded their settlements west from Scandinavia into Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and North America. Both […]
Ancient Mesoamerica: Maize (Corn)
When the Europeans began their invasion of the Americas, they found that the indigenous people of the continent, generally called American Indians, had a highly […]