Kansas Resources - Archaeology
Search over 1.4 million articles by over 600 experts
  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Archaeology

Kansas

Sites | Universities | Researchers | Culture History | Info

Geography and Maps


Archaeological Sites

Coronado's Sword
Or is it? What was long thought to be a 16th century relic of Coronado's journey through Kansas is investigated by the Kansas State Historical Society.

DB Ridge
Paleoindian Occupation of the Lower Missouri River Loess Hills: Buried Evidence from DB Ridge, Northeastern Kansas, an article by Brad Logan and William C. Johnson in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Mine Creek Battle Site
The only Civil War battle site in Kansas, 1864, Mine Creek Battlefield site has been intensively studied with the use of metal-detecting and excavation. From the Kansas State Historical Society.

Research Institutions

Kansas State Historical Society
To identify, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials and information pertaining to Kansas history in order to assist the public in understanding and appreciating their Kansas heritage and how it relates to their lives.

Professional Archaeologists of Kansas
Professional organization, and a good source of information about Kansas archaeology.

University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
MA. PhD. Asia, Europe, Latin America, Native North America, the Pacific, SubSaharan Africa

Current Researchers

Joseph Beaver
Geographical Distribution of Hell Gap Projectile Points in Kansas and Oklahoma, abstract in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Jack L. Hofman and India S. Hesse
The Occurrence of Clovis Points in Kansas, article in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Cultural History

Historical Sites in Kansas
From Territorial Kansas Online, a page of links to historical sites related to the Euroamerican settlement of Kansas.

Kansas Archaeology Basics
Summary of Kansas prehistory and history.

On the Oregon Trail
From the PBS documentary of the same name, some information on a couple of sites on the Oregon Trail.

General Information

Historical Publications of the Agricultural Experiment Station
A wealth of documentary information on early Kansas agriculture.


Archaeology at About.com

USA | Index of Countries | Homepage

 

  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Archaeology