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The discovery of permanent residences and items which could not be easily transported at the site suggests that it was a large permanent village. [7] Excavations at the site have also yielded a variety of stone tools, which were used for various purposes and also indicate long-term habitation of the site. [ 5 ]
It was the largest city in North America in the 12th century. [19] 1150–1350: Ancestral Pueblo people are in their Pueblo III Period; 1200: Construction begins on the Grand Village of the Natchez near Natchez, Mississippi. This ceremonial center for the Natchez people is occupied and built upon until the early 17th century. [20]
The discovery, they say, may be the most significant in a series of archaeological finds made at the mouth of the Miami River in the past 25 years that include the Miami Circle National Historic ...
The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. [1] [2] [3] It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, [4] 13 miles (21 km) east [5] of Fallon, Nevada, United States, by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
Here are nine of some of the most significant archaeological discoveries in history that changed what humans know about our origins and culture through time. Pompeii and Herculaneum gave a glimpse ...
The Manis Mastodon site is a 2-acre (1 ha) archaeological site on the Olympic Peninsula near Sequim, Washington, United States, discovered in 1977.During the 1977-78 [2] excavation, the remains of an American mastodon were recovered with a 13,800-year-old projectile point [3] made of the bone from a different mastodon embedded in its rib.
The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, including North America (Mesoamerica), Central America, South America and the Caribbean. This includes the study of pre-historic/ pre-Columbian and historic indigenous American peoples , as well as historical archaeology of more recent eras, including the ...