It seems I can no longer give a public program about Ohio’s amazing ancient American Indian mounds without someone in the audience asking me about giants, or the lost tribes of Israel — or even aliens ...

Wisconsin Archaeological Society President Kurt Sampson’s fascination with Native American Mound Culture began when he was in third grade. “On a class trip we went to see a mound in Lizard Mound ...

Earthen piles built by a chicken-like bird in Australia aren’t just egg incubators — they may also be crucial for the distribution of key nutrients throughout the ecosystem. In the dry woodlands of ...

Former Circleville resident Jerrel C. Anderson is a longtime researcher on the archaeology of the Midwest and is a member of multiple archaeological societies in Ohio and West Virginia. At the Ohio ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Many areas in the world are covered by hundreds of almost nine ...

May 22 (UPI) --New research into the mounds of coastal Louisiana suggests early mound builders selected building sites and materials to ensure structural integrity and longevity. In addition to ...

Peter Krsko is an artist who creates sculptures and murals, and he gets his ideas from forms and structures that he finds in nature. “My background is actually in biophysics and microscopy, so I find ...

As European colonist settlers in America pushed west beyond the Allegheny Mountains, they were most surprised to find Indian burial mounds, as they did not exist east of there. The largest ...

AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations ...