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This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Missouri, in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in Missouri . Subcategories
The Murphy Mound Archeological Site (), is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Bootheel region of the U.S. state of Missouri.Located southwest of Caruthersville in Pemiscot County, Missouri [2]: 302 the site was occupied by peoples of the Late Mississippian period, centuries before European colonization of the area.
The site is discussed by Professor Carl Chapman in The Archaeology of Missouri, volume 1 (1975), and by Professors O'Brien and Wood in The Prehistory of Missouri (1998). The cave is now part of a 370-acre (1.5 km 2) state park operated by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Visitors are allowed up to the entrance of the cave where ...
[2] [3] The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city, with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent city, St. Louis. The National Park Service (NPS), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior , administers the National Historic Landmark program.
The Province of Rhineland, (German: Rheinprovinz). The Missouri Rhineland (German: Missouri Rheinland) is a German American cultural region of Missouri that extends from west of St. Louis to slightly east of Jefferson City, located mostly in the Missouri River Valley on both sides of the river.
The site, known as Gumbo Point (Chapman 1959b:1–3), would certainly have given the tribe better access to Fort Orleans and, after the fort was abandoned, to traders ascending the Missouri River. France ceded Louisiana to Spain in November 1762, but it was five years later before a Spanish expedition reached St. Louis (Foley 1989:31–32).
Mastodon State Historic Site is a publicly owned, 431-acre (174 ha) archaeological and paleontological site with recreational features in Imperial, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, preserving the Kimmswick Bone Bed. [5] Bones of mastodons and other now-extinct animals were first found here in the early 19th ...
The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood (University of Missouri Press, 1989) Gardner, James A. "The Business Career of Moses Austin in Missouri, 1798-1821." Missouri Historical Review (1956) 50#3 pp 235–47. Gitlin, Jay. The bourgeois frontier: French towns, French traders, and American expansion (Yale University Press, 2009)