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The Common Field Archaeological Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 23-SG-100, is a prehistoric archaeological site near Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Located in the bottom lands along the Mississippi River , it encompasses the remains of a Native American platform mound.
The Gordon Tract is a late Woodland period archeological site located on the floodplain and bluffs of Hinkson Creek near Columbia, Missouri, United States, which contains the remains of a prehistoric village and mounds.
The archaeology of Iowa is the study of the buried remains of human culture within the U.S. state of Iowa from the earliest prehistoric through the late historic periods. When the American Indians first arrived in what is now Iowa more than 13,000 years ago, they were hunters and gatherers living in a Pleistocene glacial landscape.
It was founded in 1857 in Iowa City, where it was first affiliated with the University of Iowa. As the organization grew in size and collections, it became a separate state agency headquartered near the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. [2] [3] Since March of 2024, the Administrator of the State Historical Society of Iowa has been Valerie Van Kooten. [4]
Discovered in the southern part of the state, the find is Iowa's first well-preserved mastodon, according to the University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist. Scientists and local ...
The only other extensive study of the region took place in the 1960s and 1970s in the neighboring lower Pomme de Terre Valley (Missouri State University's Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) 2006; Lopinot et al. 1998:39; Ray et al. 1998:73-74).
The Glenwood Archeological District is a nationally recognized historic district and archaeological sites located near Glenwood, Iowa, United States.It is one of nine sites from the Nebraska Phase of the Woodland period recognized by archaeologists, and the only one located east of the Missouri River. [2]
The site is discussed by Professor Carl Chapman in The Archaeology of Missouri, volume 1 (1975), and by Professors O'Brien and Wood in The Prehistory of Missouri (1998). The cave is now part of a 370-acre (1.5 km 2) state park operated by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Visitors are allowed up to the entrance of the cave where ...