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:

• Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
• A Brief History of the Hopewell Culture
• Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
• Indian Mounds of Mississippi
• Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast U.S.
• Prehistory of the Southeastern US

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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