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
Missippian 800ad-1600ad
Algonquian and Iroquoian 1000ad-1600ad

Source for chronology: Metropolitan Museum of Art

(See also: Native North America Resource Page)

Web Resources
Ancient Monuments in Arkansas. University of Arkansas
Cahokia Mounds State Park Official Website
Cultures of North America. EMuseum, Minnesota State University at Mankato
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
  • Mounds and Rings
  • Prehistory in the Southeastern US
    Iroquois Nation. Ellie Crystal
    The Iroquois Nations of the Northeast. Carnegie Museum of Natural History
    Mounds Home To Varying Opinions. The Newark (Ohio) Advocate
    Native American Pottery in New England. Tara Prindle
    Ohio Historic Sites. Ohio Historical Society
    Pre-Recorded History of the Watershed. Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency
    Shawnee Portrait. Ohio State Parks Magazine
    The Woodland and Mississippian Traditions. Chris Henige, University of Wisconsin

    Image Links (click inside)
    Late Archaic
    Ohio
    1500bc-1000bc     		Hopewell
    Ohio
    100bc-500ad     		Hopewell
    Ohio
    100bc-500ad     		Hopewell
    Ohio
    200bc-100ad     		Copena
    Tennessee
    100ad-600ad
    Missippian
    Missouri
    900-1400     		Missippian
    Missouri
    900-1400     		Missippian
    Missouri
    11c-14c     		Missippian
    Unidentified location
    1300-1500     		Mississippian
    Tennessee
    13c-14c
    Caddoan
    Arkansas
    13c-14c     		Lenape
    Pennsylvania
    c. 1340     		Algonkian
    New England
    c. 1670     		Cherokee
    Carolinas (sic)
    early 18c     		Unidentified tribe
    Great Lakes
    mid 18c
    Pipe Bowl
    Miami
    1750-1800

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