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Not everyone assumes that graffiti would be part of archaeology, but it is. When you think of archaeology you would assume its pots, buildings, arrowheads, figurines, rock art, simply put physical objects. I would argue that isn’t true, because from what I have learned is that it is anything human made that leaves a mark.Continue reading “Graffiti”

We can’t not talk about arrowheads. Since the beginning of people being on this side of the Earth arrowheads have been made, used and found. You wouldn’t think this is super interesting but it actually. It is a hard thing to make too. When you have arrowheads you want them to last a very longContinue reading “Arrowheads”

So this next site is pretty cool. It is from a far but not so far away is the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. This is now the very big city of Mexico city. Tenochtitlan was a city that was found by the Mexica or more commonly known as the Aztecs. It wasn’t a very bigContinue reading “TENOCHTITLAN”

So I think we have a couple of fun ones this week. So the first one I would love to write about is rock art and cave art. There are many examples of rock art and cave art around the world. I’m just going to do a couple of places in the US and oneContinue reading “Rock Art and Cave Art”

As I am growing with this site I would love to start writing about other Archaeological sites around the world too. I know I primarily wanted this to be a Great Plains one but I think it might be beneficial to see other sites too every once and a while. I hope that is okContinue reading “Not site related but an update about the website”

Sorry for not posting last week. I kinda just dropped the ball on that one. This week though there will be two posts to make up for it. So yesterday on my day off my partner and I went to Soapstone Prairie Natural Area in the city of Fort Collins. It is this beautiful littleContinue reading “The Lindenmeier site”

I know this isn’t fully on just one site but I think it is important to see how the plains and it’s people were affected by contact from Europe and its settlers. So this is encompassing the time from 1540 to 1860 AD. When they came they brought themselves over they brought with them EuropeanContinue reading “European Contact”

For my second post I would love to write about Bear Lodge Butte or more commonly known as Devils Tower. This is interesting for several reasons because there is a lot of stories based around this National monument. It is really quite an impressive site to behold when people go there. I can remember goingContinue reading “Devils Tower”

So for my first one I figured I would write and research about A’kee Piskun. This is a Blackfoot site in Alberta, Canada. I haven’t travelled to this one but I would love to make it up here if I can. I first learned about this site from a class I took this last semester.Continue reading “A’kee Piskun”

So my plan for this blog is to be able to go to different sites around the Great Plains or research different sites and post about it. I guess my end goal is to help bring awareness to different archaeological sites and why they are important to preserve and protect. It is also a goodContinue reading “My Plan”