US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Gulf of Mexico Program: Woodland Cultures (2000 Bc to 1,000 Bc)
This site presents information on the three periods of Woodland Culture. It briefly describes how the Woodland culture began as small villages depending on subsistence farming and hunting. Also describes the move to the mound building...
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Nebraska's First Farmers
An extensive site filled with information about the Plains Woodland period in Nebraska. Click through the pages to find information about the first farmers prior to 1600 AD. Included are photographs of archaeological sites and teacher...
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Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin: Mississippian and Oneota
The Mississippian and Oneota cultures were the first true farmers in the Mississippi Valley. Read about their transition from hunting and gathering, and see what differences in their life styles farming brought about. Find a chart that...
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Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin
An archaeologist's study of Western Wisconsin, this site helps us understand the early people living in Wisconsin 12,000 years ago.
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Moundville Archaeological Park
Great site! Explore a city that was inhabited over 800 years ago by the moundbuilders! Loads of info about these ancient people.
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Pittsburg Post Gazette: Ohio Embankments Evidence of Sophisticated Culture
News article offering details of Great Circle of Newark Earthworks.
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Ohio History: Virtual First Ohioans
This award-winning resource from the Ohio Historical Society presents Ohio's first cultures: PaleoIndian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, and Late Prehistoric Period cultures. Click on each period for additional information and great...
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Ohio Historical Society: The Hopewell Culture
Who were the Hopewell? There seems to be many ideas due to the variation of Hopewell artifacts and sites. Authors offer a few facts and many thumbnails of images that when clicked, provide further information on Hopewell artifacts,...
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Mississippi Valley Archaeolgy Center: Common Projectile Points
This scholarly work describes the various projectile points used by Paleo-Indians and later cultures in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Find diagrams, photographs, and descriptions of the points, and compare their differences and...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Hopewell Culture
The National Park Service provides an overview of the Hopewell Culture as well as information about the historical park itself. Click on History and Culture, Places, Current Research, and Hopewell Archeology Newsletter for more information.
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Archaeological Legacy Institute: Archaeology Channel: Video Buffet
This site has a large collection of free videos featuring various archaeology sites all over the world.
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Ohio Memory: Fort Ancient Culture
Find several pages of artifacts from the Fort Ancient Culture. Read descriptions of each artifact, from where it was excavated, and its time period. A very interesting resource.
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Etowah Mounds Historic Site
Site explains the history of the Etowah Mounds and gives a good account of the culture of the Mound Builder. Provides a chart outlining the groups and times of the mound builders.
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Ohio Historical Society: The Late Prehistoric Period
Groups of different peoples were living all over major river valleys. Many times they would come in contact with each other. Authors discuss the groups living in the Ohio River Valley such as the Fort Ancient, Whittlesley, Sandusky and...
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Noaca: Pre Recorded History of the Watershed
This resource presents short overviews of cultures and artifacts found in Northeast Ohio: Archaic Indians, Adena culture, Hopewell culture, and Late Prehistoric Whittlesey culture.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Native American Culture of the Southeast
The dominant Mississippian culture of the Southeast signaled agricultural success and urban development for a variety of Native American groups.
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National Park Service: Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
Read about the Moundbuilders of the Mississippian culture who lived and traded along the Mississippi River before the advent of the white man.
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Ohio Historical Society: The Adena Culture
Early Woodland, or The Adena Culture of Ohio, people made a definite shift into civilization by living in permanent villages, making pottery, and emphasizing ceremony and art. Click on the thumbnails for further information on their...
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Ohio Historical Society: Late Archaic Period
The Late Archaic Period saw an increase in people and an increase in ceremony, trade and social status. Click on thumbnails for more information about this culture.
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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.
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Hopewell Culture
A description of the Hopewell Culture includes discussion on its artwork, materials used in art and building, earthworks, living arrangements, and source of the name.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Unit 1 Early Life in the Western Hemisphere
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great unit for teaching how the early people migrated to the Americas through the Land Bridge Theory and some of the different characteristics of the Native America's culture.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Scioto Valley, 1847
A map of a section of the Scioto Valley in south-central Ohio, in the vicinity of Chillicothe, showing the ancient monuments built by the Mound Builders of the Hopewell tradition. The letters A, B, C, etc. mark the ancient sites....
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Works at Newark, Ohio, 1862
A map of the ancient Mound Builder works at Newark, Ohio, made from surveys "executed while the chief earthworks could still be traced in all their integrity.