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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.
The Little Maquoketa River Mounds State Preserve is a state-owned archaeological site and natural area located within the city of Sageville, Iowa, just north of Dubuque, on U.S. Highway 52. It is high up on a limestone ridge above the Little Maquoketa River , [ 1 ] not too far from the river's mouth with the Upper Mississippi River .
Mound C, the northernmost mound of the three at the site, it was used as a ceremonial burial mound, not for elite residences or temples like the other two. [12] The site was the southwesternmost ceremonial mound center of all the mound building cultures of North America. [12] Etowah Mound C: Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, Georgia: 1000-1550 CE
Lidar-derived image of Marching Bears Mound Group, Effigy Mounds National Monument.. Prehistoric earthworks by mound builder cultures are common in the Midwest.However, mounds in the shape of mammals, birds, or reptiles, known as effigies, apparently were constructed primarily by peoples in what is now known as southern Wisconsin, northeast Iowa, and small parts of Minnesota and Illinois.
A Havana Hopewell culture site, The Toolesboro Mound Group is a group of mounds on the north bank of the Iowa River near its discharge into the Mississippi. The mounds are owned and displayed to the public by the State Historical Society of Iowa. The mound group is located east of Wapello, Iowa, near the unincorporated community of Toolesboro.
Protest at Glen Cove sacred burial site. The Recognition of Native American sacred sites in the United States could be described as "specific, discrete, narrowly delineated location on Federal land that is identified by an Indian tribe, or Indian individual determined to be an appropriately authoritative representative of an Indian religion, as sacred by virtue of its established religious ...
The state has designated the Historical Society of Iowa as custodian of the site. Of the seven mounds, only two are visible on the grounds of the Educational Center. The remaining five are located in an adjacent woodlot, and are separated by a wire fence from the Educational Center.
Fish Farm Mounds State Preserve is a 3-acre (12,000 m 2) archaeological mound group containing Native American burials in the U.S. state of Iowa.It is located within the larger Fish Farms Mounds Wildlife area, a state owned hunting area a few miles south of New Albin, just inland from the Upper Mississippi River in Allamakee County.