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A Nash Statesman Super in front of the Antique Archaeology building in LeClaire, Iowa. The show follows antique and collectible picker Mike Wolfe and a co-host (originally Frank Fritz until 2022), who travel around the United States to buy (or "pick") various items for resale, for clients, or for their personal collections.
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Iowa, ... Archaeology of Iowa; E. Edgewater Park Site; F. Florence-Council On The Iowa Site;
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.
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 Palace Site is a ca. 7,000-year-old archeological site in Des Moines, Iowa with evidence for some of the oldest houses west of the Mississippi valley and the oldest human burial in Iowa. [1] Since 2011, the site has yielded 6,000 or more artifacts, which included human skeletons.
Location of Linn County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Linn County, Iowa.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Linn County, Iowa, United States.
Manufactured by the Marshalltown Company of Marshalltown, Iowa, the trowel was first introduced in the 1890s. [1] A patent filed for its handle by the company on July 12, 1927 was granted on December 23, 1930. [2] The Marshalltown trowel is made of a single piece of metal. The 5-inch and 6-inch pointing trowels are most often used for archaeology.
The Davenport Tablets are three inscribed slate tablets found in mounds near Davenport, Iowa on January 10, 1877, and January 30, 1878. If these tablets were real, they would have been proof for the argument that the people who built the Native American mounds, called the Mound Builders were an ancient race of settlers. [ 1 ]