Archaeological studies of Native American societies in the Chesapeake have recently incorporated a broader range of interpretive frames, including those that emphasize historical contingency and social interaction rather than cultural ecology and cultural materialism. New evidence of Woodland-period population m...
Moorehead | title = Stone Ornaments Used by Indians in the United States and Canada — Being a Description of Certain Charm Stones, Gorgets, Tubes, Bird Stones and Problematical Forms | publisher = published by | place = A. H. Clark and The Andover Press | year = 1917 }} </ref> ...
The Anasazi (1000 BCE–700 CE) are the ancestors of today’s Pueblo tribes. Their culture formed in the American southwest after the cultivation of corn was introduced from Mexico around 1200 BCE. Additionally, the Navajo and Apache emigrated from Northern Canada to the Southwest sometime after ...
Native American art - Midwest, Plains, Culture: The existence of rich textile art in the prehistoric Middle West is known, but its range and development are lost in hundreds of years of history from which few examples survive. Examples of basketry and wo
Pre-Columbian Americans used technology andmaterial culturethat included fire and the fire drill; the domesticateddog; stoneimplementsof many kinds; thespear-thrower(atlatl), harpoon, andbow and arrow; and cordage,netting,basketry, and, in some places,pottery. ManyIndigenousAmerican groups werehunting...
Native American art - Ritual, Ceremony, Symbolism: Many American Indian art objects are basically intended to perform a service—for example, to act as a container or to provide a means of worship. The particular utilitarian form that Native American art