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The society publishes the academic Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society and the IAS Newsletter. [1] Founded in 1951, the IAS was the brainchild of Charles R. Keyes, the founder in the 1920s of systematic archaeological research in Iowa. [2] Keyes established and directed the Iowa State Archaeological Survey from 1921 to 1951.
The 7 sites in the Upper Iowa complex are the type sites for the Orr focus. Other Orr focus sites in Wisconsin include Shrake-Gillies, Midway and Pammel Creek. The Orr focus is distinctive from other Oneota Foci mainly in terms of the pottery which is based on rectilinear (instead of curvilinear) decoration and frequent notching on the lip.
The archaeology of Iowa is the study of the buried remains of human culture within the U.S. state of Iowa from the earliest prehistoric through the late historic periods. When the American Indians first arrived in what is now Iowa more than 13,000 years ago, they were hunters and gatherers living in a Pleistocene glacial landscape.
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Iowa, in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in Iowa . Subcategories
Archaeology of the Wickiup Hill Locality in Linn County, Iowa MPS 117: Wickiup Hill Middle to Late Archaic Camp Site: January 20, 2022 : Address Restricted: Toddville vicinity: Archaeology of the Wickiup Hill Locality in Linn County, Iowa MPS 118: Wickiup Hill Mound Group No. 1: January 20, 2022 : Address Restricted
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The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Wickiup Hill has been occupied by people for around 8,000 years and has archeological evidence of Native American villages as well as of their burial grounds. Its burial grounds are under protection by Iowa law and are not documented for others to find. [3] The mounds were stolen from repeatedly and no one knows what remains of their contents.