National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

By 1500 A.D., the Middle Missouri agricultural villages were the principal focus for social organization of Mandan people, who had developed extensive trading networks over the previous 200 years.

The Huff Village is one ...

National Historic Landmark -Big Hidatsa Village Site

National Historic Landmark -Big Hidatsa Village Site

Occupied from about 1740 to 1850, this is the largest of three Hidatsa communities near the mouth of the Knife River, showing the effects of nearly a century of fur trade interaction with ...

National Historic Landmark - Sunwatch Site

National Historic Landmark - Sunwatch Site

Sunwatch, formerly known as the Incinerator Site, is located on the west bank of the Great Miami River within the city limits of Dayton.

Ceramics, radio-carbon dates, and other evidence indicate that this open village ...

National Historic Landmark-Pueblo Grande Ruins Irrigation Sites

The prehistoric platform mound and associated archeological remains at Pueblo Grande represent one of the last surviving urban architectural sites of its kind in the Southwestern United States. There is evidence that between A.D. 1100 and 1400, Pueblo Grande served ...

National Historic Landmark - Point of Pines Sites

The region of Point of Pines village, within the present San Carlos Indian Reservation, contains a considerable number of ruins representing a long period of occupation. University of Arizona excavations here contributed significantly to archeological concepts about culture in the ...

National Historic Landmark - Merriam C. Hart, Base Camp Site

Operating from this camp in the San Francisco Mountains, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, America's first bio-ecologist, conducted the investigations that led to his formulation of the Life Zone concept (1889). His work was seminal in the development of the modern ...

National Historic Landmark - Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

Located on the Lehner Ranch and excavated in 1955-56 by the Arizona State Museum, the site showed that about 11,000 years ago hunters, probably over a period of several months, killed and butchered nine immature mammoths which were watering at ...

National Historic Landmark - Gatlin Site

Probably first occupied sometime before 900 AD, the Gatlin Site contains one of the few documented Hohokam platform mounds. Associated with the mound are pit houses, ball courts, middens, and prehistoric canals. The mound is one of the only excavated ...

National Historic Landmark - Double Adobe Site

The site where the distinctive pre-ceramic Cochise Culture, the base from which a number of ceramic cultures, particularly the Mogollon, developed, Double Adobe has yielded information on southern Arizona's prehistoric climate, ecology, and animal life.

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National Historic Landmark - Windover Archaeological Site

This small, isolated peat deposit contains artifacts and human burials dating to the Early Archaic period. It represents one of the largest collections of human skeletal material from its time period and one of the largest collections of fiber arts ...