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 ...

There is a chapter missing in American history books and the Dallas Museum of Art is writing it with art from the overlooked Mississippian culture. Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro, now on ...

Archaeologists are interested in moments in time when big changes happened, such as when free-wandering hunters and gatherers settled down and took up farming; or when small dispersed farming ...

Angel Mounds, located along the Ohio River in southwestern Indiana, was an important center of the Mississippian culture between about AD 1000 and 1450. This ancient American Indian town sprawled ...

Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Native American use of galena at Kincaid Mounds, a settlement occupied during the Mississippian period (1150 to 1450 CE), resulted in more than 1.5 metric tons of lead pollution ...

A new study of Native American use of galena increases understanding of how they were using the land and its resources. Native American use of galena at Kincaid Mounds, a settlement occupied during ...