Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi is a diverse place in many ways. Geographically it includes the flat agriculture lands of the Mississippi Delta, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This unglazed, pit-fired clay vessel in the collection of the Ohio History Connection was created by the Fort Ancient culture, ...

Cahokia was the largest city ever built in the pre-columbian United States. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, this city of great mounds and plazas continues to capture our imagination. Join me as I ...

Papers presented at the Center for Archaeological Investigations' 20th annual Visiting Scholar Conference, held at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, March 2003. Borne on a litter with much ...

For decades, scholars who studied Mississippian culture — a vast network of Native American settlements from Florida to Minnesota from roughly 800 AD to 1500 — accepted the theory that these societies ...

He believes even with oil below $80, the Mississippian play will be a force in energy production. "We're anticipating that peak production in the Mississippian Lime will be around 500,000 barrels of ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SANDRIDGE MISSISSIPPIAN TRUST II (OTC: SDRMU) today announced that there will be no further distribution to unitholders, as the Trust’s final expenses, including the expenses ...

This ancient amphibian was protected from predatory fish by bony scales. The scales, seen here as speckles along the length of the curving spine, ran from the creature's head (on the left) to its tail ...

Mississippian mortuary practices and the quest for interpretation / Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. -- The missing persons in Mississippian mortuaries / Timothy R. Pauketat -- ...

Mississippi is a diverse place in many ways. Geographically it includes the flat agriculture lands of the Mississippi Delta, the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the northeast and the coast ...

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 ...