Native Art of North America
Eastern North America

Archaic 8000bc-1000bc
Eastern Woodland 1000bc-800ad
Late Eastern Woodland 200ad-800ad
Adena 1000bc-100bc
Hopewell 200bc-500ad
Mississippian 800ad-1600ad
Algonquian and Iroquoian 1000ad-1600ad

Source for chronology: Metropolitan Museum of Art


(See also: Native North America Resource Page)

Web Resources
Ancient Moundbuilders of Arkansas. University of Arkansas
Cahokia: America's Lost City. National Geographic
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
The Mississippian Moundbuilders and their Artifacts. Anthony Stein
National Park Service, USA:

Iroquois Nation. Ellie Crystal
Ohio Valley Mound Culture. ABC Clio
Native American Pottery in New England. Tara Prindle
Ohio Historic Sites. Ohio Historical Society
The Woodland and Mississippian Cultures. Logan Museum of Anthropology

Image Links (click inside)
Birdstone - Ohio
Late Archaic
1500bc-1000bc
Mica Serpent
Ohio, Hopewell
100bc-500ad
Mica Hand
Ohio, Hopewell
100bc-500ad
Otter Pipe
Ohio, Hopewell
200bc-100ad
Owl Pipe
100ad-600ad
true, or fake?
Missouri
Mississippian
900-1400
Missouri
Mississippian
900-1400
Missouri
Mississippian
11c-14c
location unknown Mississippian
1300-1500
Tennessee
Mississippian
13c-14c
Arkansas
Caddoan
13c-14c
Pennsylvania
Lenape
ca. 1340
New England
Algonkian
ca. 1670
Rivercane Basket
Carolinas
early 18c
Pipe Bowl
Great Lakes
mid 18c
Pipe Bowl
Miami
1750-1800

[last updated: August 15, 2013]


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