A new study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected the landforms ...

May 22 (UPI) --New research into the mounds of coastal Louisiana suggests early mound builders selected building sites and materials to ensure structural integrity and longevity. In addition to ...

In this uneven work, Treese combines a fairly extensive survey of writings on American mound builders with sketches of her own field trips and other tangential materials. After describing a 1987 ...

Across Louisiana, long earthen ridges and conical hills rise from flat ground, some tucked behind campus buildings, others hidden in pine woods or framed by modern highways. Archaeologists now argue ...

Native American tribes and ancient Mound Builders in Ohio left no written record, but we can learn about them from what they left behind. Ancient Mound Builders known as Adena, Hopewell and Fort ...

It was a curious skull that some grave-openers in Ohio stood gazing upon last week. It bore a copper nose, supplied by a mortician who evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want ...

For many of the indigenous tribes of North America, ceremonial bunes containing an assortment of sacred objects were, and in some cases continue to be, an important part of their religious lives. As ...

More than 1,000 years after Alabama was home to one of the largest and most important Native American cultures ever to exist, the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) is planning an exhibit with some of the ...

An ancient Native American village in Louisiana is revealing its secrets thanks to new research. The study of ancient mound builders who lived in the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New ...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected ...