6 Archaeology Sites You’ve Never Heard of in the USA

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Places like Chaco Canyon and Cahokia get the most attention in American archaeology, but there are hundreds of other amazing sites in the US! Here's a list of less known, but equally fascinating archaeological sites, all located only about an hour away from a major city - check them out!
Let me know in the comments what sites you'd add to the list
-Turtle Mound, FL www.nps.gov/cana/learn/histor...
-Chaw’se/Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park, CA
chawse.org/
-Poverty Point, LA
www.povertypoint.us/
-Casa Grande, AZ
www.nps.gov/cagr/learn/histor...
-Lizard Mound, WI
www.co.washington.wi.us/depar...
-Rock Eagle, GA
www.exploregeorgia.org/eatont...

[@dr.froghopper6711]

New Mexico is a goldmine for archeology! My childhood home rested on a trash midden that contained many artifacts that stimulated my interest in the field!

[@AncientOneFamily.]

I was there as an older child and have always wanted to go back.

[@thatdude3977]

I live on the border town, whites are xenos around here

[@PastPerspectives3]

Yes! It seems that the upper Rio Grande was one of the most active regions in Pre-Colombian America.

[@theodoresmith5272]

Florida, my childhood home, has very little. So I went half way around the world seeing some excellent ruins including some in NM.

[@theodoresmith5272]

@Kieran Black plenty of activity in that area for sure but compared to let say the mound builders of the upper Mississippi and Ohio River and the Mississippians in the southeast, they are very small in numbers in the southwest. Tiny by Central and south America standards. The biggest city we know of had a population of 35,000. That's just 1 city. Unfortunately they only left behind mounds, as much was done with wood too and that has gone away so the ruins are not so cool as the desert ones. When you get to chan chan or tikal and the city alone has 50,000 and has suburbs too, they had very big populations. The area around mexico city to Guatemala you could send years going to amazing ruins and peru is off the charts too. For every Inca, paracas and nazca tribes you have heard of, there are 20 for each with ruins there you haven't heard of. The Inca terraced mountains for the whole 3000 mile empire and half way down the 2nd highest mountain chain in the world.

[@d.l.hemmingway3758]

There's actually a Pueblo in Southwest Kansas or at least the ruins of it where Native American pueblo builders escaping Spanish conquest attempted to revive their civilization. It is a small village and only the foundations remain today. The site is near Scott City, Kansas.

[@wakawaza5406]

I dont think so lol they found proof and evidence that the structures that were built in kansas were there since like 700B.C so they were there way before the Spanish came

[@d.l.hemmingway3758]

@@wakawaza5406 I maybe operating on out of date information. My last read was in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Haven't been researching this much since then.

[@01Lenda]

​@@wakawaza5406Rude much?

[@pittbullking87]

I have been to Poverty Point many times since I have done my share of archaeology survey in northeastern Louisiana and western Mississippi. The Poverty Point Culture occupied the site from roughly 1750 BC until 1100 BC. This is from the time of Hammurabi in Babylon until the end of the New Kingdom in Egypt. Emerald Mound on the Natchez Trace parkway is impressive. It dates to around 1250-1600 AD and was used as a base for temples.

[@wakawaza5406]

I thought it was since 700b.c

[@randowhackadoo]

What is ppc

[@dickdiamonds3410]

"academic dates"

[@AhJodie]

Thank you very much. The seashell mounds are so amazing, the one in California made me cry what happened to it, and the people living there who were still alive when it was slowly destroyed. Love to all!

[@SA-td8by]

lagomarsino petroglyphs to the North East of Virginia City, Nevada. It's awesome, you can climb around the area and try finding new ones. Approx. 12,000 years old.

[@douglasgault5458]

I lived in Reno one night for 16 yrs. I used to explore that whole area. I was quite fond of the old stage coach route that leads over to lockwood & the old Bridge area. But I explore the area up there for years. And harvested several hundred pounds of pine nuts up there as well. There's a lot of old Indian petroglyphs up that way that are well off the beaten path. But an area rich in history.

[@Nashoba432]

Excellent information. Thank You :)

[@mega-lomart7154]

Bless you for filling the video with actual content ❤️

[@kennethscurry5446]

Wow that is the best video I've found on this subject so far. Nice job!

[@TheSamknu]

Effigy Mounds National Monument, 151 IA-76, Harpers Ferry, IA 52146

[@12TribesUnite]

Awesome video and awesome channel!

[@flyonwall360]

I haven't been to Lizard Mound yet. Yesterday I was at Aztalan mounds while a friend of mine was at Blue Mound. Neither of us knew that we were exploring mounds until we were telling each other about our adventures that evening at band practice.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

It's amazing that there are so many mounds that you and a friend could just be at different mounds on the same day. Also I'd like to go to Aztalan Mounds, it looks amazing!

[@spanqueluv9er]

@flyonwall360 ^Were you at the village of Blue Mound or Blue Mound State Park? Either way, the mounds referred to in the name are natural lumps of limestone, they aren’t man-made. You can bet there were more ancient native mound works around Dane county though down to Dubuque.

[@tlee1827]

circles and octagon in Newark, OH are incredible, lunar 18.6yr cycle tracked by the octagon

[@Sqsq909]

Wow! I learned of so many places:) I love traveling in Ohio. The history there is decently preserved. I live in Texas and they don’t register much archaeology although it is everywhere. The Round Rock in Williamson county is cool. I live near bull creek in northwest Austin and there is much evidence of quarrying. Laurel’s canyon near ancient tracks is amazing. An identifiable mound is at the base of Mountain View park- spicewood springs road and Scotland well drive. There is an extensive burial ground atop the ridge that runs down old lampassas trail. A natl monument worth the visit is the mammoth in Waco:)

[@Feisty6969]

So much to discover and so little time on this orb..thx for the the vid

[@benhoskins4719]

The elementary school that I attended was built on an 80-foot tall mound after the state leveled it in the 1950s. Thomas Walker mentioned it and the lodges around it in his journals after passing through Cumberland Gap. The hill across from the school still bears the name "Manito Hill."

[@shikyojojo2521]

mounds state park in Anderson, Indiana has some pretty big mounds and some interesting history as well,

[@CollinGill7]

this was an absolutely incredible and concise video

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

Medowcroft rock shelter it's not a large site but it is ancient one the oldest sites found in north america.it is located just outside of avella, in western Pennsylvania

[@daveburrows9876]

I believe Meadowcroft Rockshelter is considered to be the earliest site of continuous human habitation found in North America so far.

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

@@daveburrows9876 yes it has signs of habitation going back 16,000 years . The date of the shelter has been pushed back to 19,000 years.

[@solarcookingTravel]

Just amazing. Thank you so much.

[@bforman1300]

So glad to see Poverty Point get a shout-out! Artifacts from all over the Mississippi catchment area have been found there, each cultural type in different sections of the ridges is if different peoples camped in discreet areas. Basically it appears that people used the rivers as highways, and Poverty Point was a trade or pilgrimage center for peoples many hundreds of miles away, clear back in the Archaic Period when people are thought to have been 'simple' hunter-gatherers.

[@dancostello6465]

Shell mounds in Kimhae, Korea fascinated me. That's a lot of clams. It was all preiron age. Further up shoreline was Gaya Dynasty Iron Forge works and burial mounds.

[@TWB2575]

Outstanding! Thanks for bringing it to the USA. Job well done. Thanks

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Thank you!!

[@larry8lo]

I stumbled upon your channel. Good stuff! You got a new subscriber. Damn shame about the shell mounds around the Bay Area. Anyway, my favorite lesser known archaeological sites are the Petroglyphs National Monument outside of Albuquerque and Walnut Canyon NM east of Flagstaff AZ.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Hi Larry! Yes the shell mounds are a real loss. I've been to Walnut Canyon but haven't been to Petroglyphs NM - I'll have to check it out! Thanks very much for subscribing!

[@larry8lo]

@@PoopyArchaeology The Petroglyphs are extra cool because they're on lava flows from Holocene volcanoes nearby. It's archaeology and geology in one place.

[@augustthenerd4213]

Great video! Very cool

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Thanks!

[@mksemposki]

Sanilac Petroglyphs in Michigan. Found after a fire in the late 1800’s swept thru the Thumb region on Michigan. Great nature trails and guides.

[@raquel_era_lei_4930]

Poverty point is less than 30 minutes from shreveport. There's several mounds in nw louisiana. I've got 4 on my property.

[@josephofisrael5692]

@TILEN FABE you’ve lost your mind

[@jadegold66]

How cool. Do you spend any time on them or very near them?

[@joesmith4222]

They've found 10 foot skeletons in the Ohio mounds. Giants🤔

[@stevinharper3551]

Thanks to this channel so much I'm from Arkansas and have seen holes just like that in the woods certain places had no idea who did it when or why it this may not be the explanation but it's just like what I've seen just allot more in one spot i do mean allot more

[@jdawg7503]

Keep up the good work

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Thank you!

[@royceroller7095]

Don't forget Big mound city,between PBC and Okeechobee Florida..it originated 2500 years ago and is a 150 acre site but trees and plants have covered the mounds

[@jamesfinnegan9363]

There is a large stand alone almost come shaped hill south west of Ft Worth Texas. It can be seen from I 20 .

[@caseysmith544]

The Northern most of the Plains Tribal cities is in South Dakota outside of Huron from right around 800 years ago when the glacier had moved away. This is about 1.5 to 2 hours from Sioux Falls the biggest city.

[@DisorderlyBastard]

The Florida one could have just been a collection of shells for the type of concrete they used in the past.

[@MrSpikebender]

Great little video I dig hearing about the places that are off the beatin track. Also, I didn't find anything " Poopy" about your work.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Thanks! I started off making videos about using feces in archaeology, which is my research specialty, but since then the channel's evolved to become much more general

[@hobostovepipe2199]

So much enjoy true historical information indeed.

[@jaredthomaseuper]

Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma are cool.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Good call! It's amazing how widespread Mississippian sites are, it hadn't occurred to me that they're in Oklahoma too!

[@harrowgateguy]

In New Hampshire there’s Mystery Hill in Salem also known as thevStonehenge of New England. There’s also Star Island off the coast of New Hampshire with a large spiral geoglyph. In Massachusetts there is burnt Hill and many ancient stone chambers.

[@ccwhatsnew]

I have been to Casa Grande. I live in Needles, Ca. How about something on the Mystic Maze, in California? Or Grapevine Canyon in Nevada?

[@janebeckman3431]

There is an amazing petroglyph site, Atlatl Rock, at Valley of Fire in Nevada.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

I've been to Turtle Mound. Worth a visit.

[@snowmiaow]

I love hearing about American archaeology!

[@paneofrealitychannel8204]

I grew up in southwest Louisiana. Through my entire childhood, I thought roads made of shells were common. Like you might think of a gravel road made from a gravel pit, our roads were all made of and recovered annually by shell. I never questioned where it came from. Years later, now I know.

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

Spruce hill fort in Ross County Ohio. Spruce hill is one of the largest earth and stonework forts built by what is believed to have been the Hopewell culture. The site covers around 150 acres and is similar to the fort ancient site in ohio.

[@ronaldorme6375]

Topock maze near Needles Californisn(Anunnali Elyptobiti /mining tailings} and Blythe intaglios {Geoglyphs} !

[@BernadeenJenkins]

Your outro scared the hell out of me!

[@reynardthefox]

Check out Ute Mountain Ute reservation accompanied by a Native guide . Fascinating

[@EclecticEssentric]

Buy the rock bird is a lake of a headless man with a round island at his heart.

[@Ashphinchtersayswhat]

Casa grande was an observatory. Was there in 1974. It used to be considered an observatory from my understanding

[@samyoungblood3740]

Nice! Would like to know how to see lidar map you looked at

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Hi Sam, if you type in 'lizard mound county park' to the search bar at this website you should be able to zoom in and see it: www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?panel=gallery&layers=d5a4498fe0294f92a8b6729948a7d71d

[@user-il1bv3lc2h]

Judging by some of these sites it looks like there were LOTS of people around back 2-3 thousand BC

[@mikegreene6742]

Whale back shell mound is on the Damariscotta River here maine

[@AgelessRock888]

Interesting sites for sure 👍

[@andrewmace2140]

Sage wall, whitehall Montana. Incredible. Totally unknown by mainstream archeology.

[@trentgay3437]

Picture gorge in Oregon lots of pictographs in a beautiful canyon. It's also close to the painted hills and John day fossil beds

[@opietaylor9945]

Thank you Steve-o

[@chrisbecker6759]

Medicine Wheel in northern Wyoming.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

I hadn't heard of this before - thanks for adding it to the list, I'm reading about it now, it's fascinating!

[@georgehathcoat4011]

Thousands of places like that all around the USA. Passed by and never seen

[@DjWesRolan]

I know of another shell mound in Florida that is almost as big

[@heavyhaul8621]

Petroglyphs near Wellington Utah on soldier creek road. Pretty cool.

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

I live Mississippi not far from Poverty Point. Sadly our low swampy terrain is terrible for preserving archaeology.

[@cliffcurtistruth]

I can't imagine wanting to carve out a new hole with so many others right there (1:38). Did everyone in the village have to have their own hole because nobody wanted to share their holes? Dude, these holes might have been used by natives over time but grinding mortars could not have been their original function.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

That's an interesting question - interspersed between the holes are 363 petroglyphs so it seems pretty clear that Chaw'se has ritual or spiritual importance. I wonder if maybe by making more holes people could have added to this special place, sort of like how people leave 'love locks' on bridges and over time as more are left it makes the place more special.

[@survivortechharold6575]

they are too small and deep to make enough grinding motion.

[@botchman5947]

They did were I live. Each had their own.

[@nothing2see315]

Probably just had more than one person at a time doing it

[@joshsmith7176]

They were made over a long period of time like thousands of years.

[@asdaven1]

Hueco Tanks State Park near El Paso Texas....very interesting place ..has intact pictoglyphs not just petroglyphs...pictoglyphs are painted

[@myquickjab2098]

Found another site just like this at camache lake when there was drought years ago

[@scottchase8014]

Well I enjoyed the video thanks for trying really hard and you did a good job... My work... We study a lot older stuff than that... And it's okay they don't teach it in college for reason

[@johnrohlfs7254]

Awesome ...... ........ ...... .....

[@philchiu1711]

LOOK UP THE POT HOLES IN SOUTHWESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. I NEVER COULD FIGURE OUT HOW OR FOR WHAT THEY WERE FOR.

[@OkieSketcher1949]

Check out Spiro Mounds in eastern Oklahoma.

[@christineshotton824]

Wupatki ruins in Northern Arizona, north of Flagstaff on the way to the Grand Canyon.

[@jasonthrasher4584]

Shawnee park southern Illinois. Beautiful to say the lease.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Wow, looks beautiful, thanks!

[@forrest3384]

Blythe Intaglios is an interesting one.

[@kylebillings3587]

You should cover Montana's Megaliths at Giant's Playground.

[@devox3291]

PLEASE re-edit this video so the super loud jump scare music at the end does not blow my speakers. Thank you. Great vid overall!

[@patgibson9056]

there is a ceremonial arena in Gratiot ohio.I think it's built with cinder

[@zahidullah8822]

Sir i have a middle which are made an 1908 in at the center of this middle there are put the american currency which have picture of the queen sir i want to send this middle to american archaeological museum

[@sommmeguy]

It makes you wonder how much of the pre-history of North America is waiting to be discovered. What would you say is the best museum to see this sort of archeological artefacts?

[@stratuxbeats]

i live 25 mins from lizard mound and i have never heard of it

[@defendfreedom777]

How in this world did ya hit up on the name poopy for your videos? I just watched the first one and enjoyed it,it was also good in that it was a short video because of time constraints I often have to deal with when I don't have more time to sit down and watch a longer indepth video.

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Thanks man! Yeah I recognize the channel name is pretty weird. When I first started making videos I talked about my area of expertise, which is using fecal molecules in archaeology so I called the channel 'poopy archaeology.' No one watched them though so I branched out into more general topics, but kept the name since I'm still fond of it.

[@defendfreedom777]

@@PoopyArchaeology I love the name it's a real attention getter when your scrolling through KZbin and that title pops up because it makes you stop and consider watching it. When I am driving down the highway it's the largest bill board's with a contrast between the background color and the letters that automatically draws my attention to that particular billboard verses the small ones with small letters and no contrast in color,so it's kinda the same thing with your title when scrolling through the many available videos on KZbin. Keep those videos coming poopy archeology your on to something here !

[@RobinLynnGriffith]

New sub here...you in the bay area? Great fun stuff you got here....

[@PoopyArchaeology]

Hi Robin, thanks for subscribing! Yes, my wife and I are based in Marin

[@RobinLynnGriffith]

@@PoopyArchaeology I'm I San Jose... good stuff you got here for future exploration thank you so much

[@jefffriedberg]

There’s a place here in NM that the park rangers do not seem to know exists. It consists of a stone circle around a kind of sight or “gun” sight that “targets” a nearby dormant volcano. It appeared to me in whole on satellite photos i looked up.

[@elburropeligroso4689]

Where in NM is this located?

[@rgboyte]

Wow!

[@haroldgardiner1966]

That "bird" shaped creation, actually looks more turtle like, wouldn't you say?

[@beauxjones8793]

Giants playground or Sage Wall megalith structure in Montana

[@tomh4591]

some food for thought regarding shell middens. There's a good chance these were pyramid like structures, or at the very least just larger geopolymer concrete constructions, much more likely than 100s of years of picking one spot to throw your shell food shells. A main ingredient in concrete for building is LIME, which a vast majority of shells is composed of primarily. Quite the chemical reaction occurs when heating the shells, then re-hydrating them, it completely changes its composition. Check out some paul cook on this topic, among many other examples. These are likely to have had their cover stones and render removed, and been through an awful lot of erosion since, leaving the remnants of the aggregates essentially. Plus the mining for the shells and lime, realizing the value therein exactly along the lines of what I'm talking about, otherwise why would they have been mined. To destroy evidence, and / or repurpose a very valuable construction material, just as much so now as it was then.

[@bungeechord1]

Anything in southern Mass?

[@dianheffernan2435]

The front pic looks like it was slapped on with quick set cement...

[@2Goiz_1ShanDA]

I live next door to turtle mound❤.. and there's many many more Jupiter and south to Miami

[@builderman912]

i know a site in southern ia, it is not marked, but well known amongst locals, its on private property and i have access, and will show you, but i cannot give coordinates on here.

[@claytonholton905]

The last one big bird!

[@botchman5947]

The Indian caves in lone wolf Oklahoma. They have those grinding bowls too.

[@ericbarkman9810]

Hovenweep,near Bluff Utah

[@lonniejackson1366]

How have you not covered Meadowcroft in Pennsylvania??????

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

I just commented the same thing there are some other caves near there I am try to get looked at as possible ancient sites. I grew up on the other side of the state line from medowcroft so it is a area I'm very fond of.

[@SeahamV2]

The videos I recently watched have open new doors.

[@franciscoblank7889]

Sage mountain. Montana!!!

[@schizosaint777]

What do you make of graham Hancocks work?

[@PoopyArchaeology]

I've only read Fingerprint of the Gods. I know his ideas are pretty popular, but I've never understood why. I can say that as much as I believe the sun will come up tomorrow that Antarctica never supported an advanced ancient civilization, that it did not move thousands of miles south in one catastrophic event, and that the world's major societies did not stem from the remnants of Atlantis. Plate tectonics, radiocarbon dating, and the individual histories of the cultures he discusses make it clear that continents do move, but gradually, the timing of each civilization is different and none of them had even formed by 10,000 BC, and people can come up with similar things, like pyramids and gods, on their own, just like how Medieval knights and samurai both developed suits of armor doesn't mean that they had to get the idea from Atlanteans. So honestly I just don't get it, like why try to make a grand explanation of everything when there's much easier explanations out in the open that can be proven true by science? Anyway I get the feeling a lot of people won't like this response but it's how I feel about the one book of his that I read, sorry for the rant.

[@davidjones9430]

Old stone fort in Tennessee know body knows when or who built it

[@victormorgan7766]

Pension Mounds in Pension Tennessee and Chuckalisa in Memphis Tn !!

[@rasanjames2498]

There are two miles one mile is in Macon Georgia and then there's another Mound here's another mouth for the up Epic Pass Duluth Georgia that supposed to have a mind connection with the Creek Indians

[@marshalkrieg2664]

Isn't there a rock wall on a hilltop in Ga. ? Some think it was built by European knights, some think Mayan Indians migrated up and did it.

[@bustermot]

I like Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota.

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

been to 2 of them.

[@dr.strangelove7739]

Spiro mounds in Oklahoma