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Mc Clung Museum: Prehistoric American Indians in Tennessee
A comprehensive look at the prehistoric Indians who lived in Tennesse, beginning with the PaleoIndian period through the Mississippian period of mound builders. Find pictures of artifacts, drawings, and a good discussion of each period.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: The Mississippian Period
Journey into the past while reading this comprehensive overview of the Mississippian Period that covers topics such as life in the seas, tetrapods and other life on land, fossil evidence, and climate and tectonics.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Russell Cave: Prehistoric Cultures
Russell Cave in Alabama holds clues to the many groups of inhabitants that represented cultures in America over the past 10,0000 years. Read an overview of the cultures themselves before looking into the cultures in more detail. Find...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Indian Mounds of Mississippi: The Mound Builders
Read about the mounds built in Mississippi by those of the Middle Woodland period and the Mississippian period. Find out the differences between the mounds built in these two time periods and how the different mounds reflected the...
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Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Pre European Expoloration
Arkansas had many thriving cultures before the coming of the Spanish. Read about Indian culture from the Paleo Indians through the Caddo tribe in 1500.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Prehistoric Connection
This lesson plan is an adaptation of Activity 92 from Project Learning Tree. Students will research the four prehistoric time periods and compare and contrast them with their lives. By doing this, they will recognize the difference...
University of California
Ucmp: Paleozoic Era: Stratigraphy
This site contains a chart showing the progression of the Paleozoic Era. Each section of the chart leads to information about the geological, biological, and climatic elements of a specific period of the era.