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Spiro Mounds on the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma. People have lived in what is now Oklahoma since at least the Last Ice Age. [1] Archaeologists refer to the earliest cultures as Paleo-Indians. [2] The Burnham site, near Freedom in Woods County, Oklahoma is a pre-Clovis site, that is, an archaeological site dating before 11,000 years ago. [3]
Spiro Mounds (34 LF 40) [3] is an Indigenous archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma. The site was built by people from the Arkansas Valley Caddoan culture. [4] that remains from an American Indian culture that was part of the major northern Caddoan Mississippian culture. The 80-acre site is located within a floodplain on ...
Paleontology in Oklahoma refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma has a rich fossil record spanning all three eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. [1] Oklahoma is the best source of Pennsylvanian fossils in the United States due to having an exceptionally complete geologic ...
The Domebo site (also referred to as Domebo Canyon) is located in the west-central region of Oklahoma known as Caddo County. Caddo County has more than 451 archaeological sites. One hundred and fifteen of those sites date to the Plains Village era (A.D. 1000 to 1500). [3] In contrast, the Domebo site dates to approximately 11,000 years ago.
The McLemore Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 34WA5, is a prehistoric archaeological site of the Southern Plains villagers located near Colony in Washita County, Oklahoma. It is the site of a prehistoric Plains Indian village, dating from AD 1330-1360, during the Washita River phase. [1] The site is of historic importance for being ...
The Arbuckle Mountains are an ancient mountain range in south-central Oklahoma in the United States. They lie in Murray, Carter, Pontotoc, and Johnston counties. [1] The granite rocks of the Arbuckles date back to the Precambrian Eon some 1.4 billion years ago which were overlain by rhyolites during the Cambrian Period.
Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913). Life restoration of a herd of Mammuthus columbi, or Columbian mammoths. The extent of the fur depicted is hypothetical. Charles R. Knight (1909). Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus.
The Cooper Bison Kill Site is an archaeological site near Fort Supply in Harper County, Oklahoma, United States. Located along the Beaver River, it was explored in 1993 and 1994 and found to contain artifacts of the Folsom tradition, dated at c.10800 BCE to c. 10,200 BCE in calibrated radiocarbon years. [2] Findings include projectile points ...