Things to Do
Acoma Pueblo
Acoma Pueblo - known as Sky City - is the oldest continually inhabited city in…
Explore →Albany Historic Indian Mounds
One of the most important archaeological sites in Illinois, Albany Mounds contains evidence of continuous…
Explore →Ashland Archaeological District - NHR
The Ashland Archeological District, registered on the National Register of Historic Places, contains a variety…
Explore →Backwater Draw Archaeological Site and Museum
First occupied by Clovis people about 11,000 years ago.
Explore →Bentonsport Indian Artifact Museum
Artisan, Tony Sanders, has achieved a unique blend of woodworking and history with his collection…
Explore →Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
Remnant of an early 20th century mining camp called Berlin and the fossil remains of…
Explore →Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park
Besh-Ba-Gowah is an ancient ruin unlike the others. Here you are encouraged to walk within…
Explore →Big Spring
When the Moore family first settled there, there were Indian camps all along the bottom…
Explore →Black Mesa Archaeology
Black Mesa's history began millions of years ago when pre-historic beasts like the 65 foot-long…
Explore →Bouse Fisherman Intaglio
The Bouse Fisherman Intaglio or geoglyph can be found along Plomosa Road near Bouse. The…
Explore →Burkett Archeological Site -NHR
Situated on a prominent natural terrace near the Loup River valley near Genoa, the Burkett…
Explore →Caesar Creek Lake Fossil Hunting
n the process of building a high quality dam at Caesar Creek, the Corps of…
Explore →Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
This world heritage site, a National Historic Landmark, marks the location of an ancient natural…
Explore →Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves the remains of an ancient Hohokam farming village as…
Explore →Casa Malpais Indian Ruins
Casa Malpais, or "House of the Badlands", in the CASA MALPAIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK is surrounded…
Explore →Casamero Pueblo
Single structure, 22 groud-floor rooms, 6 rooms on 2nd story. Once occupied by Chacoan Ancestral…
Explore →Center For American Archeology
Archeological field experience. Archeological research. Education programs. Museum exhibits and tours. Scientific publications. Public events.
Explore →Chaco Culture National Historic Park
World Heritage Site, 13 major ruins, 47 campsites, most sophisticated 12th-century Ancestral Pueblo economic/ceremonial center…
Explore →Chief Looking's Village
This ancient American Indian village site has a self-guided tour of the grounds, which contain…
Explore →Clarks Historic Site
The Grand band of the Pawnee established this village some time after 1823 and remained…
Explore →Columbi Mammoth
Displayed in the Horace Greeley Museum is the skull of a prehistoric mammoth. The skull,…
Explore →Crawley Flint Quarry State Historic Site
This site preserves an area from which Indians quarried quantities of Knife River flint used…
Explore →Dakota Dinosaur Museum
Museum features 11 full-scale dinosaurs, minerals, mammals, fossils and sea life.
Explore →Deer Valley Rock Art Center
The Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph site, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has over…
Explore →Delaware Archaeology Museum
BUILDING IS CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR REPAIRS. RE-OPENING DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED. Welcome to the Delaware…
Explore →Dickson Mounds Museum
Dickson Mounds Museum, a branch of the Illinois State Museum and a National Historic Site,…
Explore →Dinosaur Capital of North Dakota
Site contains 60-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, including triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex.
Explore →Double Ditch Indian Village State Historic Site
Site contains ruins of large Mandan Indian earthlodge village believed to have been inhabited for…
Explore →Doyle Site
Doyle is one of the finest examples of Woodland culture in the Republican River valley…
Explore →Echo Cliff Park
Country Park, located west of Dover in Wabaunsee County, has a rich Indian history. Archeological…
Explore →El Quartelejo Pueblo Ruins
See the northernmost pueblo in the United States and one of the first white settlements…
Explore →Fate Bell Shelter
Fate Bell Shelter is located in Seminole Canyon State Historical Park. The shelter, which is…
Explore →Genoa Site - NHR
After nearly three decades of Sioux harassment and epidemic diseases, all four bands of the…
Explore →Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park is located on a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, with 26 ceremonial…
Explore →Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs
Seven miles west of Laughlin, ancient Native American petroglyphs adorn sheer cliffs above a freshwater…
Explore →Historical Indian Villages
These sites located throughout Saunders County have been registered as National Historic Places because of…
Explore →Hudson-Meng Bison Kill
When Albert Meng was preparing to build a pond in the early 1950s, he uncovered…
Explore →Hudson-Meng Bison Kill
When Albert Meng was preparing to build a pond in the early 1950s, he uncovered…
Explore →Huff Indian Village
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark, the…
Explore →Indian Hill Archeological District - NHR
A cluster of eighteen prehistoric archeological sites within less than one-half square mile constitutes the…
Explore →Indian Mound and Museum
The Florence Indian Mound is the Tennessee Valley area's largest domiciliary mound. The mound rises…
Explore →Judaculla Rock
Huge boulder with yet unexplained hieroglyphics said to be carved by Indians.
Explore →King Tut's Tomb & Museum
One of the most quintessential Las Vegas attractions, if only due to its overall strangeness,…
Explore →Kinishba Ruins National Historic Landmark
Kinishba is a large pueblo ruin containing nine masonry buildings constructed between 1250 and 1350…
Explore →Laguna Pueblo
Laguna Pueblo was founded in 1699. Part of the attraction to settle here was the…
Explore →Lake Scott Archaeology
During the Pleistocene epoch, when glaciers came as far west as Lawrence, Kansas, dinosaurs lived…
Explore →Logan Creek Site
Hunter-gatherers of the Early Archaic period intermittently reoccupied a campsite on a now deeply buried…
Explore →Lost City Museum
Exhibits focus on artifacts from ancient Puebloan settlement dating from A.D. 1-1150. Actual dwelling reconstructions…
Explore →Lovitt Historical Site
Between A.D. 1675-1725 Apache peoples known as the Dismal River Complex (and related to populations…
Explore →Mastodon Lake at Phillips Park
Remains of the extinct elephant-like Mastodon were found in this lake in the 1930's. See…
Explore →Mastodon State Historic Site
Excavation of American mastodon remains and Indian artifacts make this one of North America's most…
Explore →Medicine Rock State Historic Site
This ancient, sacred American Indian gathering place was used for dance ceremonies before a buffalo…
Explore →Menoken Indian Village State Historic Site
Site preserves a prehistoric village dating to the early 1200s. Site is a National Historic…
Explore →Molander Indian Village
Site preserves a large prehistoric Hidatsa earthlodge village dating to the 1700s, protected by a…
Explore →Moundville Archaeological Park
26 large prehistoric platform mounds in 320-acre park. Attractions include reconstructed Indian village, museum, nature…
Explore →Mowry Bluff Historic Site
National Historic Register - Mowry Bluff is a small Upper Republican Phase hamlet occupied during…
Explore →Nehawka Flint Quarries - NHR
Early archeologists observed nearly 300 unusual depressions in flint-rich areas of Pennsylvanian limestone formation along…
Explore →Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Alabama's 1st permanent capital and most famous ghost town. Archaeological Interpretive Park includes welcome center…
Explore →On-A-Slant Mandan Indian Village and Custer House
The On-A-Slant Indian Village is a 400-year-old Mandan Indian Village, which thrived for 200 years.…
Explore →Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, just south of Gila Bend and approximately 90 miles southwest of…
Explore →Pecos National Historical Park
Pueblos, Spanish colonial mission ruins, abandoned by 1838. Santa Fe Trail Landmark. Kozlowski's Ranch was…
Explore →Pembina State Museum
Discover 100 million years of regional history from the Cretaceous Age to contemporary times in…
Explore →Piasa Bird
The Piasa Bird (pronounced Pie-a-saw), is a local legend in the Alton area. Its foundings…
Explore →Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Pueblo Grande Museum is located at a 1,500 year-old Hohokam village ruins in modern day…
Explore →Pulver Mounds State Historic Site
Two low burial mounds from Woodland culture tradition of the Late Prehistoric Period are the…
Explore →Quindaro Ruins and Undergound Railroad
The Quindaro Ruins and Undergound Railroad archeological free port of entry off the Missouri River…
Explore →Raven Site Indian Ruins
Raven Site sits majestically above the Little Colorado River in the White Mountains area of…
Explore →Red Smoke Historic Site
National Historic Register - Red Smoke is one of three Paleo-Indian Tradition sites excavated following…
Explore →Saint Claude State Historic Site
Site contains the archaeological remains of an 1882 mission and its cemetery founded by Father…
Explore →Serpent Intaglio
The Serpent Intaglio was dug by the Indians sometime around 1200-1300 A.D., and is approximately…
Explore →Shoofly Indian Archaeological Site
A self-guided tour through this ancient village site will show you how the native people…
Explore →Spiro Mounds Archeological Park
Oklahoma's only archaeological park, is a 150-acre site encompassing 12 southern mounds which contain evidence…
Explore →SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park
SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park is an archaeological site and reconstructed Fort Ancient American Indian village…
Explore →Table Rock Archaeological Site
The Table Rock Site, located near the town of Table Rock, is one of only…
Explore →The Great Serpent Mount
One of the few effigy mounds in Ohio, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest…
Explore →Theodore Davis Site - NHR
On a prominent natural terrace of Weeping Water Creek, the Davis village, located near the…
Explore →Toledo Sword
(transcribed from correspondence to Museum Curator) - ... about the sword. I carried that thing…
Explore →Tonto National Monument
Well-preserved cliff dwellings were occupied by the Salado culture during the 13th, 14th, and early…
Explore →Toolesboro Indian Mounds
Group of Woodland culture burial mounds and Oneota culture artifacts. Visitor Center.
Explore →Tours of Fossil Sites and Paleontological Area
Visit fossil-bearing sites ranging in age from 30 years to 73 million years.
Explore →Towosahgy State Historic Site
A 64-acre site preserving the remains of the once fortified ceremonial village inhabited by the…
Explore →Tumacacori National Historical Park
Tumacacori National Historical Park in the upper Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arziona is…
Explore →Under the Prairie Frontier Archaeological Museum
The Under the Prairie Frontier Archaeological Museum has displays of hundreds of authentic artifacts from…
Explore →Wright Site - NHR
Sometime between A.D. 1600 and 1750 the ancestors of the Skidi Pawnee occupied this immense…
Explore →Writing Rock State Historic Site
This site preserves two large boulders bearing many Indian pictographs. This area was used by…
Explore →Upcoming & Annual Events
Annual FOSSILMANIA
An annual fossil and fossil-related show, with dealers from all over the country. FREE educational…
Explore →Archaeology & Ohio Geology Day
Archaeology & Ohio Geology Day at Serpent Mound, 10:00a.m to 5:00 p.m. Members from different…
Explore →Archeology Days
Learn about the past beneath your feet. Watch archeologists excavating in the Thomsen Center Archeodome.…
Explore →Artifact ID Day
Northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri are rich in archeological treasures from ancient native cultures. Each…
Explore →Elderhostel Excavations at The Mammoth Site
Elderhostel volunteers excavate new areas of the sinkhole looking for more mammoths and other species…
Explore →Hidden Cave Tours
Guided tour of Hidden Cave archaeological site includes self-guided tour of Grimes Point petroglyph site.…
Explore →Hidden Cave Tours
Guided tour of Hidden Cave archaeological site includes self-guided tour of Grimes Point petroglyph site.…
Explore →Hidden Cave Tours
Guided tour of Hidden Cave archaeological site includes self-guided tour of Grimes Point petroglyph site.…
Explore →Summer Solstice Sunset Celebration
Summer Solstice Sunset Celebration at Serpent Mound - 8:00 p.m. Take part in a guided…
Explore →Verde Valley Archaeology Fair
Explore archaeology through exhibits, demonstrations, a kids archaeology area and an International Archaeology Film Festival…
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