Dr. Tim Pauketat wants to change the way people think about pre-Columbian America. "Most people tend not to think of history before the arrival of Columbus, and they think of the ancient past as ...

An expansive city flourished almost a thousand years ago in the bottomlands of the Mississippi River across the water from where St. Louis, Missouri stands today. It was one of the greatest ...

Mexico and South America are noted for three important pre-Columbian civilizations: the Maya, the Inca and the Aztec. But there is a fourth, and often unrecognized, important civilization in North ...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Mississippian Origins: From Emergence to Beginnings / Lynne P. Sullivan -- 2. Maize and Mississippian Beginnings / C. Margaret Scarry -- 3. Cahokia's Beginnings: ...

NMAI copy 39088019918085 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Introduction / Bruce D. Smith -- Powell Canal : Baytown period adaptation on Bayou Macon, southeast Arkansas / John House -- ...

Clarksville’s Dunbar Cave State Park is home to historical charcoal drawings of a Mississippian culture of Native Americans who lived in the area 1,000 years ago. The drawings as well as other aspects ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- The latest event at the Towosahgy State Historic Site near East Prairie offers visitors a chance to learn about the region's true first farmers. Set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday ...

Before European explorers arrived on the American continents, a diverse array of civilizations, kingdoms, and nations flourished across North, Central, and South America. These societies developed ...

A piece of Native American history in Clarksville could be lost forever due to recent historic flooding at a Tennessee landmark. It isn't yet clear if Dunbar Cave State Park's Mississippian Native ...

An expansive city flourished almost a thousand years ago in the bottomlands of the Mississippi River across the water from where St. Louis, Missouri stands today. It was one of the greatest ...