NORTH AMERICA
5700 BC Burial Mound Built for One Child in Labrador
A forensic look at the L’Anse Amour burial mound in southern Labrador, where a Maritime Archaic young person was buried beneath a carefully built stone monument around 5700 BC.
Arc
North America
Plains sites, river valleys, mounds, caches, and contact-era puzzles.
Latest Case Files
Recent write-ups in this arc.
NORTH AMERICA
15,500-Year-Old Stone Points Found Below Clovis
A forensic look at the Debra L. Friedkin site in Texas, where stemmed stone points were found beneath Clovis layers and dated thousands of years earlier.
NORTH AMERICA
13,000-Year-Old Footprints Found Under a Beach
A forensic look at the human footprints preserved beneath beach sands on Calvert Island, British Columbia, and what they reveal about Ice Age coastal movement.
NORTH AMERICA
12,000-Year-Old Bone Dice Found in Wyoming — Nobody Noticed
A forensic look at small marked bone artifacts from Folsom-period sites that may push the history of dice, games of chance, and probabilistic thinking in North America back to about 10,900–10,300 BC.
NORTH AMERICA
Why Spanish Coins Were Placed Around a Skull in Georgia
A forensic look at a Native American burial site on St. Simons Island, Georgia, where Spanish copper coins were used for an entirely unexpected purpose.
NORTH AMERICA
This Should NOT Be Here (1,200 MI Away)
A forensic look at the Grotto Canyon flute player figure in Alberta, found 1,200 miles from its expected cultural home in the American Southwest.
Arc Intelligence: The Eastern Woodlands
Key definitions and context for North American anomalies.
Dry Masonry
A construction technique using stones stacked without mortar. Common in Middle Woodland structures like Fort Mountain.
Hopewellian Sphere
A prehistoric exchange network (c. 200 BC – AD 500) connecting the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, characterized by monumental earthworks and exotic trade goods.
Sterile Site
An archaeological site yielding no artifacts (pottery, lithics) despite structural evidence. Often implies a Temenos (sacred ceremonial separation).