Sites and Monuments

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Sites and Monuments

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• History of Citrus County, Florida Information about Crystal River State Archaeological Site, the earliest Indian settlements of the Bedford Culture in Florida, and Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site.
  
• Poverty Point Louisiana State Parks official page for one of the most important archaeological sites in North America. Photographs, plan and description of the earthworks dated between 1700 and 700 B.C.
  
• Chaco Culture National Historical Park Mark Justice Hinton gives information on Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, once the home of the Anasazi or Hisatsinom. Links, photos, descriptions, news.
  
• Discovering Archaeology Follow the excavation of a colonial period plantation which was the home of rebel Nathanial Bacon. Projectile points from 8,000 B.C. were also recovered.
  
• Chesapeake and Allegheny Clusters Secretary of Interior's 1997 Report to Congress on archeological activities undertaken for National Parks in the Northeast Region.
  
• World Heritage Sites in the United States The National Park Service and US/ICOMOS offer a list of sites of cultural and natural interest already nominated and waiting for review. Criteria for site nominations.
  
• Anasazi Great Houses Anne Lawrason Marshall, University of Idaho, provides maps, photographs and discussion of the structures of Chaco Canyon. Includes Quick Time Virtual Reality 360-degree panoramas and bibliography.
  
• Evaluating Models of Chaco A virtual conference sponsored by the University of Colorado examines the various explanations for the remarkable archaeological remains in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
  
• Poverty Point Earthworks Some of the largest American earthworks of the prehistoric period at this site in northeastern Louisiana. Transcript of a program by Louisiana Educational Television Authority.
  
• Mid-Hudson Valley Prehistory and Archaeology Map and information on the Tivoli Bays archaeological sites from Bard College.
  
• From Site to Story The Institute of Minnesota Archaeology describes an exploration of the Upper Mississippi's buried past. Illustrated site reports, photographs, bibliographies.
  
• The Miami Circle Model Bernard Powell's model of the Miami Circle archeological site in Florida, which he helped to excavate in 1998-9. The prehistoric ring of cavities pecked into limestone is attributed to the Tequesta.
  
• Anasazi Indians Maciej Swulinski's photographs of Anasazi Indian castle-like towers at Hovenweep on the border between Utah and Colorado, and Native American petroglyphs on Newspaper Rock.
  
• Homolovi State Park Four pueblo sites thought to have been occupied between A.D. 1200 and 1425 by ancestors of today's Hopi Indians near Winslow, Arizona. Tours and facilities.
  
• Pit House Reconstruction Mesa Field Services provide an illustrated outline of a project by two archaeologists to reconstruct a shallow pit house.
  
• The Virtual Meier Site Cameron Smith records the excavation by Portland State University of a large Chinookan plankhouse in Oregon. Report, artifact catalogs, computer reconstructions.