Before the early American settlers moved into Ohio in the 1780s, the region was home to ancient Mound Builders and Native American tribes.
Across Louisiana, long earthen ridges and conical hills rise from flat ground, some tucked behind campus buildings, others ...
Former Circleville resident Jerrel C. Anderson is a longtime researcher on the archaeology of the Midwest and is a member of multiple archaeological societies in Ohio and West Virginia. At the Ohio ...
AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations ...
BROOKFIELD - The town has contracted with University of Massachusetts Archaeological Services to locate and record the final resting places of indigenous people who lived in the region 3,000 years ago ...
A new study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected the landforms ...
Scattered across Wisconsin, effigy mounds are fragments of an ancient culture spanning from about 400 to 1200 AD. To the unobservant eye, they only appear to be elevated land. But the mounds are what ...
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