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Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park (), formerly known as "Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park", [3] also known as Knapp Mounds, Toltec Mounds or Toltec Mounds site, is an archaeological site from the Late Woodland period in Arkansas that protects an 18-mound complex with the tallest surviving prehistoric mounds in Arkansas.
An excavation project led archaeologists to discover an "extremely rare" tomb that was largely destroyed thousands of years ago. At least 14 human skeletons discovered in rare 5,000-year-old tomb ...
The stone tomb, which is about 5,000 years old, was unearthed during an excavation in Orkney, ... Rare Christian tattoo found on the foot of 1,300-year-old body in Sudan, experts say.
Women buried in a lavish grave 5,000 years ago wore beaded garments, suggesting they held positions of power. The beads could have taken 10 people seven months to make.
The Calf Creek point was first named and described in an Arkansas amateur archaeological journal by Don Dickson in 1968, for examples found at Calf Creek cave in Searcy County Arkansas. The cave was named for a small, perennial stream that runs nearby. In 2003, a 5,120±25-year-old bison skull was found on the banks of the Arkansas River by Kim ...
4 – A 1,200-year-old tomb of the Gran Coclé culture containing the remains of an elite lord, as many as 31 sacrificial victims, and gold artifacts has been discovered in Panama’s El Caño Archaeological Park. [10] The top half of a statue of Ramesses II was found in an archaeological site at the ancient city of Hermopolis, now Al-Ashmunin ...
Tomb of Prehistoric King Dates Back 5,000 Years Richard T. Nowitz - Getty Images Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture.
As was common at the time, AMNH sent Barnum Brown to Arkansas to excavate the discovery. The cache of fossils at the Conard Fissure was a breathtaking scientific discovery in its own right, yet Barnum Brown was fresh off his field work in Hell Creek, Montana just the year prior. Therefore, the Conard Fissure excavation was somewhat overshadowed ...