Steve Mirsky: Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on May 6th, 2015. I’m Steve Mirsky. On this episode. Alan Smale: Along with some historians I think that a great deal of history is ...

The two societies — the Coles Creek mound builders and later Plaquemine culture — also have their own social structures and distinctive artwork, which Kassabaum showed in pottery found in the recent ...

AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations ...

A new study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected the landforms ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

Swaying boughs of Spanish moss and the hollow rattle of wind raking the palmettos set an eerie mood, perfect for these haunted woods. About a third of a mile inland from the banks of Bottle Creek, a ...

EXPLORATION of a mound near North Benton, Ohio, has brought to light the remains of a structure identified as a temple in which a number of objects are apparently new to knowledge of the culture of ...

More than 1,000 years after Alabama was home to one of the largest and most important Native American cultures ever to exist, the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) is planning an exhibit with some of the ...

Woodville, Miss. — Professor Meg Kassabaum climbed a ladder down into the earth, where bits of pottery and charcoal and stripes of soil and sand sketch the story of the ancient Native Americans who ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected ...

Scientific American is the authority on science and technology for a general audience, with coverage that explains how research changes our understanding of the world and shapes our lives. First ...