Exploring Native North America

Summary: Profiles eleven significant archaeological sites in the United States and Canada, describing their excavations and the sites' characteristics at the times they were inhabited.

Record details

ISBN: 019511857X (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780195118575 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195108876 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780195108873 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xii, 227 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Blackwater Draw: 9300-4000 B.C., Paleoindian and Archaic cultures in New Mexico -- Hidden Cave: 3000 B.C.-A.D. 1000, desert Archaic culture in Nevada -- Cape Krusenstern: 6000 B.C.-20th century, Iñupiat Eskimo cultures in Alaska -- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump: 3500 B.C.-19th century, Plains Archaic culture in Alberta, Canada -- Big Horn Medicine Wheel: 18th-20th century, Plains Indian culture in Wyoming -- Ozette: A.D. 1-20th century, Northwest Coast Archaic culture on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington -- Hopewell: 100 B.C.-A.D. 400: Hopewell culture in Ohio -- Poverty Point: 1730-1350 B.C., Poverty Point culture in Louisiana -- Serpent Mound: A.D. 1000-1140, Fort Ancient tradition in Ohio -- Mesa Verde: A.D. 600-1300, Ancestral Pueblo culture in Colorado -- Pueblo Bonito: A.D. 860-1150, Ancestral Pueblo culture at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico -- Pueblo Grande: A.D. 500-1450, Hohokam culture in Phoenix, Arizona -- Cahokia: A.D. 800-1350, Mississippian culture in East St. Louis, Illinois -- Spiro: A.D. 850-1450, Mississippian culture in Oklahoma -- Moundville: A.D. 1050-1500, Mississippian culture in Alabama -- Iroquoian archaeology: A.D. 1300-1650, Iroquoian tradition around London, Ontario -- Knife River: A.D. 1300-1800, Plains Village tradition in North Dakota -- Little Bighorn Battlefield: 25 June 1876, Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, and Euro-American cultures meet at Hardin, Montana.