Discover some of the amazing archeological work that has been done in our national parks. Use the research tools to assist you if you wish to delve deeper into our shared national past.

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Russell Cave

Alabama
- Little River Canyon National Preserve
  - Cultural Resources
- Russell Cave National Monument
  - Geology Field Notes: Russell Cave National Monument
Alaska
- ANLICA parklands
  - "Old is Getting Older"
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
  - Historical and Cultural Significance
- Cape Krusenstern National Monument
  - Cape Krusenstern Beach Ridge Complex Survey
- Ivory figurine excavated from Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
  
  Katmai National Park
  - Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of the Katmai and Aniakchak National Park Units (1996)
  - Katmai NP & P Archeologists Excavate Alagnak Village
  - Brooks River Cutbank Project
- Kenai Fjords National Park
  - A Stern and Rock-Bound Coast (historic resource study, 1998)
- Klondike Gold Rush National Park
  - A Wild Discouraging Mess, History of the White Pass Unit (2003, .pdf)
  - Legacy of the Gold Rush (administrative history, 1996)
  - Thirty Years of Historical Archeology in Skagway, Alaska
- Sitka National Historical Park
  - Sitka National Historical Park Survey
- Wrangell-St.Elias National Park and Preserve
  - Culture and History
Arizona
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
  - Administrative History: Canyon de Chelly National Monument (1976)
- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
  
  The ruins of the Casa Grande
  - Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona: A Centennial History of the First Prehistoric Reserve 1892-1992 (administrative history, 1992)
  - The Casa Grande National Monument (1931)
- Grand Canyon National Park
  - History & Culture at Grand Canyon National Park
  - Polishing the Jewel: An Administrative History of Grand Canyon National Park (2002)
  - Ranger Minute—Tusayan Pueblo (Windows Media video), and Prehistory of the Grand Canyon
  - Archeology River Monitoring Program
  - Grand Canyon Association free e-publications
  - The Role of Aeolian Sediment in the Preservation of Archaeological Sites in the Colorado River Corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona: Final Report on Research Activities, 2003-2006 (2007)
- Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
  - Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site: An Administrative History (1991)
- Montezuma Castle National Monument
  - A Past Preserved in Stone: A History of Montezuma Castle National Monument (administrative history, 2002)
  - Montezuma's Castle (1928)
  - Montezuma National Monument (historical handbook, 1958)
- Navajo National Monument
  - Navajo National Monument, A Place and Its People (administrative history, 1991)
- Petrified Forest National Park
  - Petrified Forest History & Culture
- Tonto National Monument
  
  Cliff dwellings at Tonto NM
  - History & Culture
  - Virtual Tour
- Tumacácori National Historical Park
  - Of Adobe, Lime, and Cement: The Preservation History of the San José de Tumacácori Mission Church:
  - Mission of San Juan de Tumacacori: Tumacacori National Monument
- Walnut Canyon National Monument
  - Archeology
- Wupatki National Monuments
  - Archeology (webpage and reports)
Using GPS to record the locations of all artifacts found at Pea Ridge

Arkansas
- Pea Ridge National Military Park
  - Pea Ridge National Military Park: Civil War Archeology, Investigating the Battles at Wilson’s Creek and Pea Ridge
California
- Channel Islands National Park
  - Submerged Resources Report
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment (.pdf, 10.47 MB)
  - Comet Submerged Cultural Resources Site Report (.pdf, 3.28 MB)
  - Beached Shipwreck Archeology: Case Studies from Channel Islands National Park (.pdf, 35.34 MB)
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and Point Reyes National Seashore (.pdf, 13.83 MB)
- Point Reyes National Seashore
  - The Archeology of Sixteenth-Century Cross-Cultural Encounters in Point Reyes National Seashore
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and Point Reyes National Seashore (.pdf, 13.83 MB)
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Inventory: Portions of Point Reyes National Seashore and Point Reyes-Farallon Islands National Marine Sanctuary (.pdf, 5.4 MB)
Colorado
- Curecanti National Recreation Area
  - Archeology
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Rocky Mountain National Park
  - The Archeology of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Rocky Mountain National Park (2006, .pdf)
  - Prehistoric and Historic Sites
- Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
  - Multiple Lines of Evidence: Searching for the Sand Creek Massacre Site
  - Sand Creek Massacre Project, Special Resources Study, vol.2 (2000, .pdf)
- Yucca House National Monument
  - Yucca House In Depth
District of Columbia
- National Capital Region Archeology
  - Virtual Exhibits
  - National Capital Area Archeological Overview and Survey Plan
    (1995, 27.46 MB .pdf )
- Rock Creek Park
  - Archeology and History in Rock Creek Park
  - Prehistoric Landscapes of the Nation's Capital
Florida
- Biscayne National Park
  
  The Mandalay at Biscayne National Park
  - Maritime Heritage Trail
- Canaveral National Seashore
  - Archeological Investigations at Canaveral NS
- De Soto National Monument
  - De Soto Volunteers 300 B.C.
- Dry Tortugas National Park
  - Underwater Excavations
- Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve
  - Archaeology at Kingsley Plantation
Georgia
- Andersonville National Historical Site
  - Archeology at Andersonville
- Stafford cabin chimney at Cumberland Island National Seashore
  
  Cumberland Island National Seashore
  - Archeological Investigations at Cumberland Island National Seashore, Stafford and Rayfield Plantations
- Fort Frederica National Monument
  - Archeology at Frederica
- Fort Pulaski National Monument
  - Echoes from the Past: The Archeology of Fort Pulaski
- Ocmulgee National Monument
  - Ocmulgee National Monument (historical handbook, 1956/1961)
  - Ocmulgee Chronology
Guam
- War of the Pacific National Historical Park
  - General Report on Archeology and History of Guam
Hawaii
- Pu`uloa Petroglyph Field at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
  
  Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
  - Archeology
- Kalaupapa National Historical Park
  - Archeology
- Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park
  - Chapter 8: Kaloko-Honokoau National Historical Park (administrative history, 1993)
- Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park
  - Chapter 9: Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (administrative history, 1993)
- Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
  - Chapter 7: Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site (administrative history, 1993)
- USS Arizona Memorial
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Study
Idaho
- Nez Perce National Historical Park
  - Nez Perce National Historical Park Administrative History (1996)
Indiana
- Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
  - Archeology
Aerial View of Great Bear Mound Group

Iowa
- Effigy Mounds
  - The Perpetual March: An Administrative History of Effigy Mounds National Monument (1989)
  - Figures on the Landscape (historic resource study, 2003)
Kansas
- Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
  - Archeological Investigation of an Exoduster Neighborhood
- Nicodemus National Historic Site
  - “Wake Nicodemus:” African American Settlement on the Plains of Kansas
Kentucky
- Mammoth Cave National Park
  - Archeology at Mammoth Cave (.pdf)
Louisiana
- Cane River Creole National Historical Park
  - Tour and Archeology
Maryland
- Antietam National Battlefield
  - Archeology at Antietam: The Effect of Battle on an Agrarian Landscape
- Assateague Island National Seashore
  - Submerged Resources
- Catoctin Mountain Park
  - Cultural History
  - Catoctin Mountain Park: A Historic Resource Study (2000)
- C&O Canal NHP
  - Stratified Prehistoric Archeological sites in C&O Canal NHP
- Fort McHenry National Monument
  - Archeological Treasures at Fort McHenry
- Monocacy National Battlefield
  - Best Farm Identification and Evaluation Study (project summary, 2002)
  - Civil War Agricultural Landscape (article, 2000, .pdf)
  - An Application of GIS at the Best Farm (article, 2001, .pdf)
  - The Middle Ford Ferry Tavern Project
Massachusetts

This piece of wrought iron from Saugus iron mills reveals details about industry at the mills
- Boston National Historical Park
  - The Fort on the First Hill in Dorchester (1998, .pdf)
- Cape Cod National Seashore
  - The Archaeology of Outer Cape Cod
- Salem Maritime National Historic Site
  - Archeology at the Custom House
- Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
  - Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site (Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan)
Michigan
- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
  - Shipwrecks (.pdf)
- Isle Royale National Park
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Study: Isle Royale National Park (.pdf, 9.04 MB)
Minnesota
- Grand Portage National Monument
  - Late Prehistoric Cultural Affiliation Study: Grand Portage National Monument (pdf, 3.03 MB) (1999)
  - Archeological Excavations at the Northwest Company's Fur Trade Post, Grand Portage, Minnesota, in 1936-1937 (1963) (pdf, 3.45 MB)
  - Archeological Excavations at Grand Portage National Monument: 1962 Field Season (1968) (pdf, 1.41 MB)
  - Archeological Excavations at Grand Portage National Monument: 1963-1964 Field Season (1969) (pdf, 3.65 MB)
  - Archeological Excavations at Grand Portage National Monument: 1970-1971 Field Season (1975) (pdf, 49.36 MB)
  - Grand Portage: A History of the Sites, People, and Fur Trade, (1969) (pdf, 40.91 MB)
  - Grand Portage as a Trading Post: Patterns of Trade at "the Great Carrying Place" (pdf, 3.32 MB) (2005)
  - Grand Portage National Monument Administrative History (1982, revised 1983)
- Pipestone National Monument
  - An Archeological Inventory and Overview of Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota (.pdf, 4.68 MB)
  - Managing the Sacred and the Secular: An Administrative History of Pipestone National Monument (1992)
- Voyageurs National Park
  - People of the Thick Fir Woods
Mississippi
- Natchez Trace Parkway
  
  Occupied between AD 1250 and 1600, Mississippi's Emerald Mound is the second-largest ceremonial earthwork in the United States
  - Bailey Farm (newsletter, .pdf)
  - Emerald Mound National Historic Landmark
  - Recommendations for Mound Maintenance and Visitor Use and Access Areas of the Natchez Trace Parkway Mounds (2004) (pdf, 3.08 MB)
- Vicksburg National Military Park
  - The U.S.S. Cairo gunboat
Missouri
- Ozark National Scenic Riverways
  - Round Spring Archeology, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Southeast Missiouri (.pdf, 1.7 MB)
- Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield
  - Civil War Archeology : Investigating the Battles at Wilson’s Creek and Pea Ridge
- Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
  - Archeological Investigations at Ulysses S. Grant NHS

Children pose in front of Freeman School at Homestead NM

Montana
- Big Hole National Battlefield
  - A Sharp Little Affair: The Archeology of Big Hole Battlefield (1994) (.pdf)
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
  - Documenting Tipi Rings along the Bad Pass Trail, Bighorn Canyon NRA
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
  - Archeology at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Yellowstone National Park
  - The Montana-Yellowstone Archeological Project: 2007 Field Season
  - Yellowstone National Park Submerged Resources Survey (.pdf, 2.58 MB)
Nebraska
- Homestead National Monument
  - Excavations at the Freeman School (.pdf)
Nevada

A soldier's saddle D-ring found at Little Bighorn Battlefield NM
- Great Basin National Park
  - The Midden (resource management newsletter)
New Jersey
- Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
  - Collections: Native American, historic & colonial, and curation
New Mexico
- Aztec Ruins National Monument
  - Aztec Ruins In Depth
  - East wing excavation in 1919 at Aztec Ruins National Monument
    
    Aztec Ruins National Monument: Administrative History of an Archeological Preserve (1990)
  - Aztec Ruins National Monument Historic Handbook (1962)
- Bandelier National Monument
  - Bandelier National Monument: An Administrative History (1988)
  - Bandelier National Monument (historical handbook, 1955/1967)
- Chaco Culture National Historical Park
  - An Administrative History of the Chaco Project (1982) (.pdf)
  - Chaco Canyon: Collections of the NPS
  - Chaco Culture NHP Intentional Site Reburial Program
  - The Chaco Digital Initiative
  - A History of Chaco Canyon National Monument (1956) (.pdf)
- Fort Union National Monument
  - Fort Union National Monument: An Administrative History (1992)
  - Special Report Covering the Proposed Fort Union National Monument (1939) (pdf)
- Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
  - Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History (1992)
- Pecos National Historic Park
  - From Folsom to Fogelson: The Cultural Resources Inventory Survey of Pecos National Historical Park, Volumes 1 and 2 (2002)
  - Pecos National Historic Park Special Sites Study (1992) (pdf)
New York
- Women’s Rights National Historical Park
  - Archeology
British-made ceramic gorget from Fort Union Trading Post

North Dakota
- Fort Union Trading Post Historical Site
- Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
  - History and culture overview
Ohio
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
  - Archeological Investigations
- Human hand cut from mica at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
  
  Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
  - Amidst Ancient Monuments: The Administrative History of Mound City Group National Monument/Hopewell Culture National Park, Ohio (1999)
  - Current Research
  - Hopeton Earthworks
  - Hopewell Archeology Newsletter
  - Virtual Museum
Oregon
- Fort Clatsop National Memorial
  - Archeological Research
  - Fort Clatsop National Memorial Administrative History (1995)
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Archeologists expose buried backyards and basements at Independence NHP

Pennsylvania
- Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
  - Collections: Native American, historic & colonial, and curation
- Fort Necessity National Battlefield
  - Archeology
- Independence National Historical Park
  - Archeology
  - Archeology at Franklin Court
South Carolina
- Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
  - African Americans at Snee Farm Plantation, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2006) (pdf, 1.9 MB)
  - Archeology
- Fort Sumter National Monument
  - Archeology at Fort Sumter
  - Interpreting Slavery and Civil Rights at Fort Sumter National Monument (2002, .pdf)
- Kings Mountain National Military Park
  - Battlefield Archeology at Kings Mountain National Battlefield
- Ninety Six National Historic Site
  - Archeology at Ninety Six National Historic Site
Native Americans lived across Badlands NP

South Dakota
- Badlands National Park
  - Human History
  - An Adventure in the Depths of Time: Badlands Archeology (brochure, .pdf)
- Wind Cave National Park
  - Bibliography of Archeology
Tennessee
- Aerial view of Shiloh National Military Park
  
  Shiloh National Military Park
  - Shiloh Mounds
  - A History of Shiloh National Military Park (administrative history, 1954)
- Stones River National Battlefield
  - Cultural Resources
Texas
- Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
  - Pictographs in Panther Cave at Amistad National Recreation Area
    
    Archeology
  - Alibates Flint Quarries and Ruins (Texas Beyond History)
- Amistad National Recreation Area
  - American Indian Tribal Affiliation Study Phase I: Ethnohistoric Literature Review (2002)
  - Amistad Recreation Area: Archeological Survey and Cultural Resource Inventory (2002) (pdf)
  - Bonfire Shelter (Texas Beyond History)
  - Lower Pecos (Texas Beyond History)
- Big Bend National Park
  - Archeology & Big Bend
  - Landscape of Ghosts, River of Dreams: A History of Big Bend National Park (administrative history, 2002)
  - Wax, Men, and Money: Candelilla Wax Camps along the Rio Grande (Texas Beyond History)
- Big Thicket National Preserve
  - Discovery of a Neches River Ferryboat: Big Thicket National Preserve (1992) (.pdf)
- Fort Davis
  - Fort Davis and the Trans-Pecos Trails (Texas Beyond History)
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
  - The Archeology of Buffalo Soldiers and Apaches in the Southwest
- San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
  - Indian Groups Associated with Spanish Missions of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Utah
- Bryce Canyon National Park
  - The Archeology of the Paunsagunt Plateau, Bryce Canyon National Parks (2005) (pdf, 25.39 MB)
- Canyonlands National Park
  - The Archeology of Horseshoe Canyon
- The Waterpocket Fold at Capitol Reef National Park
  
  Capital Reef National Park
  - Cultural Landscape Report: Fruita Rural Historic District
  - Petroglyph Pullout
  - From Barrier to Crossroads: An Administrative History of Capitol Reef National Park, Utah (1998)
- Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Site Report: Charles H. Spencer Mining Operation and Paddle Wheel Steamboat, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (.pdf, 8.32 MB)
- Zion National Park
  - Archeology at Zion
Virginia

An archeologist at Assateague Island National Seashore
- Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
  - Mariah Wright House (report, 1996)
  - Road and Parking Improvements (report, n.d.)
- Assateague Island National Seashore
  - Spain loans artifacts to Assateague Island NS
  - Submerged Resources
- Colonial National Historical Park
  - Jamestown Island Revisited 1607 (CRM special issue, 1999)
  - Jamestown Rediscovery Project
  - Jamestown, Virginia National Historic Site, The Townsite and Its Story (historical handbook, 1949/1957)
  - A Study of Virginia Indians and Jamestown: The First Century (2006)
  - Underwater Survey at Colonial NHP
- George Washingon’s Birthplace National Monument
  - Archeology and Collections
  - Historical Handbook: George Washington’s Birthplace National Monument (1956)
- Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
  - Archeology at Maggie Walker NHS
- A glass bottle excavated at Manassas NBP
  
  Manassas National Battlefield Park
  - African American households
  - The Robinson House: A Portrait of African American Heritage (online exhibit)
  - Views of a Changing Landscape: An Archeological and Historical Investigation of Sudley Post Office (44PW294) (report, 1998)
- Petersburg National Battlefield
  - City Point: Eppes Plantation (article, n.d.)
  - Federal Picket Line, Petersburg Main Unit (project summary, 1999)
  - Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the Five Forks Unit (report, 1999)
  - A History of Petersburg National Battlefield (administrative history, 1983, .pdf)
- Richmond National Battlefield Park
  - Watt House
  - Malvern Hill
Tooth of the extinct Monk Seal recovered at Cinnamon Bay with a hole drilled possibly for use as a pendant

Virgin Islands and the Caribbean
- Virgin Islands National Park
  - Cinnamon Bay
  - Making Contact with the Archeological Record: Identifying Contact Period Sites on St. John USVI
Washington
- Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve
  - Archeological Resources and Ethnographic Summary
  - The People
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
- Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
  - Currents and Undercurrents: An Administrative History of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, Chapter 9 (2002)
- Mount Rainier National Park
  - High Elevation Archeological Survey
  - What is Archeology? What does it have to do with Mount Rainier?
- North Cascades National Park Complex
  - An Updated Summary Statement of the Archeology of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex (1998)
  - Archeology of the Little Beaver Watershed
  - High Elevation Archeological Survey
  - History & Culture
- Olympic National Park
  - High Elevation Archeological Survey
- San Juan Island National Historical Park
  - An Early Lithic Site in the San Juan Islands: Its Description and Research Implications (2002, .pdf)
- Whitman Mission National Historic Site
  - Administrative History: Whitman Mission National Historic Site
  - Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Washington (historical handbook, 1964)
  - A Report on the Second Season’s Excavations at Waiilapu
Wisconsin
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
  - Archeological Excavations at the Manitou Fish Camp, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (.pdf, 3.63 MB)
  - Inventory and Evaluation at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore 2007
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Site Report: Noquebay (.pdf, 1.6 MB)
West Virginia

Marshall-Firehole project artifacts, Yellowstone
- Archeology at the U.S. Armory, Harpers Ferry NHP
Wyoming
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
  - Documenting Tipi Rings along the Bad Pass Trail, Bighorn Canyon NRA
- Yellowstone National Park
  - The Archeology of Mummy Cave Wyoming: An Introduction to Shoshonean Prehistory (.pdf, 8.1 MB)
  - Archeology
  - Marshall/Firehole Hotel Underwater Archeology Project

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Russell Cave

Ivory figurine excavated from Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

The ruins of the Casa Grande

Hall in Hubbell Home, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site

Cliff dwellings at Tonto NM

Using GPS to record the locations of all artifacts found at Pea Ridge

Researcher launches a magnetometer for an underwater survey at Point Reyes.

Field archeologists examine alcove sites at Mesa Verde

Archeologists use metal detectors at Sand Creek

Prehistoric wooden bead and textile from Rock Creek

The Mandalay at Biscayne National Park

Stafford cabin chimney at Cumberland Island National Seashore

Pu`uloa Petroglyph Field at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

Rockshelter at Nez Perce NHP

Aerial View of Great Bear Mound Group

Surviving slave cabins at Oakland Plantation, Cane River Creole NHP

Chamber pot from Fort McHenry

This piece of wrought iron from Saugus iron mills reveals details about industry at the mills

Archeologist documents fieldwork at Grand Portage National Monument

American Indian man quarries stone at Pipestone NM

Occupied between AD 1250 and 1600, Mississippi's Emerald Mound is the second-largest ceremonial earthwork in the United States

Children pose in front of Freeman School at Homestead NM

A soldier's saddle D-ring found at Little Bighorn Battlefield NM

East wing excavation in 1919 at Aztec Ruins National Monument

Artifacts from Stanton House at Women's Rights NHP

British-made ceramic gorget from Fort Union Trading Post

Human hand cut from mica at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Archeologists expose buried backyards and basements at Independence NHP

Native Americans lived across Badlands NP

Aerial view of Shiloh National Military Park

Pictographs in Panther Cave at Amistad National Recreation Area

Cererros, also known as "candelilleros," in front of shelter thatched with candelilla in Asa Jones wax camp. Photo by Curtis Tunnell, courtesy of the Texas Historical Commission

The Waterpocket Fold at Capitol Reef National Park

An archeologist at Assateague Island National Seashore

A glass bottle excavated at Manassas NBP

Tooth of the extinct Monk Seal recovered at Cinnamon Bay with a hole drilled possibly for use as a pendant

Petroglyph from Olympic's Wilderness Coast

Archeologist notes feature at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Marshall-Firehole project artifacts, Yellowstone