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Fossil Butte preserves the 50-million-year-old Green River lake beds, the best paleontological record of tertiary aquatic communities in North America. Fossils including fish, alligators, bats, turtles, dog-sized horses, insects, and many other species of plants and animals suggest that the region was a low, subtropical, freshwater basin when ...
The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument: AZ Hohokam: Castillo de San Marcos National Monument FL Seminole: Chaco Culture National Historical Park: NM Ancestral Pueblo, Pueblo, Navajo: Chiricahua National Monument: AZ Apache: Colonial National Historical Park (Jamestown), VA 17th-century Powhatans: Coronado National Memorial: AZ Zuni: Cuyahoga ...
History in the New World stretches back well before 1492, and these enduring landmarks are proof of complex and accomplished civilizations that were established centuries before.
Although the idea of Norse voyages to, and a colony in, North America was discussed by Swiss scholar Paul Henri Mallet in his book Northern Antiquities (English translation 1770), [39] the sagas first gained widespread attention in 1837 when the Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn revived the idea of a Viking presence in North America. [40]
Statue of "Big Ole the Viking" in Alexandria, Minnesota, proclaiming the city the "Birthplace of America," based on an assumed authenticity of the Kensington Stone. The Kensington Runestone is a slab of greywacke stone covered in runes that was discovered in Western Minnesota , United States, in 1898.
Ruins on the National Register of Historic Places (1 C, 115 P) Pages in category "Ruins in the United States" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
Interior of Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument showing the vast size of the structure Ruins of the kiva at Puerco Pueblo, Petrified Forest National Park Chacoan round room features. A kiva (also estufa [1]) is a space used by Puebloans for rites and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system.