Archaeological Sites of the American Plains and Midwest

Galveston Historical Foundation (Texas)
Works in the community to preserve the historic architecture and the cultural heritage of the island; site contains some history of Galveston Island and other information.

American Bottom (Illinois)
The American Bottom is the name given to the Mississippian culture homeland, a segment of the Mississippi River Valley in Illinois in the central United States

Aztalan (Wisconsin)
Aztalan is a large Mississippian site located near Lake Mills in the state of Wisconsin of the midwestern USA.

Baker Cave (Texas)
Baker Cave is a rockshelter located in the Lower Pecos region of southwest Texas of the south central United States, with occupations dated between 9,000-6800 years before the present.

Cahokia (Illinois)
Cahokia is a large Mississippian (AD 1000-1600) agricultural settlement located on the American Bottom of the Mississippi River in Illinois.

Destination: Little Bighorn Battlefield
The first intensive battlefield archaeology studies were conducted between 1985 and 1989, by Douglas Scott and Melissa Connor who investigated the dry hills of southeastern Montana for cartridge cases, bullets, army equipment, clothing fragments and skeletal remains: all that was left of George Armstrong Custer and his doomed 7th calvary.

Fort Atkinson (Iowa, USA)
The archaeological site of Fort Atkinson was an Indian Agency during the early 19th century.

Gault Site (Texas, US)
The Gault site is a Clovis period site located in central Texas, discovered in the early 21st century.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
This World Heritage Site in Alberta, Canada, is the location of an Archaic period communal buffalo kill.

Koster (Illinois)
An excavation 34 feet below the modern day surface of an Illinois farmstead provides a glimpse into America's past.

Peter Enclosure (Kentucky)
The Peter Enclosure is a large Adena period archaeological site in Kentucky.

Place of Rings: Poverty Point
Jon L. Gibson's recent book on the archaic period earthwork called Poverty Point reads a bit like a memoir--not a memoir for Gibson, who has studied Poverty Point for nearly fifty years, but for the site itself.

Spiro Mounds (Oklahoma)
The archaeological site of Spiro Mounds is a Caddoan tradition site, located in the Arkansas Valley of eastern Oklahoma, in the southern plains region of the United States.