Articles related to "Mound Builders"

Throughout the four identified mound building cultures, the practice evolved.

Of the four pre-contact cultures who designed large earthen structures throughout the northeast, the mound builders of Poverty Point were the first.

The Adena have been identified as the most likely successor civilization to that of Poverty Point.

Alan Taylor produces a fresh look at colonial America. He covers Native American tribes, European contact, slavery, wars, and the opening of the western frontier.

Contemporary American playwrights, including Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, and Doug Wright, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.

Highly similar to the earth lodge, the pithouse (pit house) is among the oldest permanent structures in North America.

The Weeden Island Culture, which existed more than a thousand years ago, is considered to mark the cultural climax of Florida's prehistoric Gulf Coast region.

Nearly 5000 years ago, the Red-Paint People developed a unique burial tradition that enabled archaeologists to get a greater understanding of North American prehistory.