Educational Resources

HyperLinks

• Inside the National Park Service
  • For Hopewell period (200 BC to 500 AD) earthen mounds, visit Hopewell Culture National Historic Park near Chillicothe, Ohio.
  • For more about the Woodland Period (2000 BC to 1000 AD), visit the Southeast Archaeological Center.
  • For other mound building cultures, visit National Park Service Lower Mississippi Delta Projects.
  • For more information on cultures from the same time period as the moundbuilders, visit Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. 
• Outside the Park Service
  Please note that the National Park Service does not control and cannot guarantee the relevance, timeliness, or accuracy of the materials provided by other agencies or organizations. The Federal Standards of Ethical Conduct prohibit the National Park Service from endorsing these outside agencies and organizations.
• • Ohio Historical Society Serpent Mound
  • Toolesboro Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark
  • Pikes Peak State Park

Printed Media

• Alex,Lynn Marie. Exploring Iowa's Past. University of Iowa Press: Iowa City, Iowa, 1980.
• Archaic Period. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.
• Carlson, John B. "Hopewell: Prehistoric America's Golden Age," Early Man. Winter, 1979.
• Cooper, Tom C., editor. Iowa's Natural Heritage. Iowa State University Press: Ames, Iowa, 1982.
• Hopewell Archaeology. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.
• Jackson, Donald, editor. Blackhawk: An Autobiography. University of Illinois Press: Illinois, 1964.
• Mallam, R. Clark. Effigy Mounds of Iowa--Ideology from the Earth. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.
• Mallam, R. Clark. Iowa Effigy Mounds Manifestation: An Interpretive Model. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.
• Morrow, Toby. Iowa Projectile Points. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.
• Oneota. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.
• Paleo-Indian Period. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.
• Peterson, Roger T. and Margaret McKenny. Peterson's Field Guide to Wildflowers. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1968.
• Ritzenthaler, Robert. Prehistoric Indians of Wisconsin. Milwaukee Public Museum: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1985.
• Ritzenthaler, Robert and Pat Rizenthaler. Woodland Indians of the Western Great Lakes. Milwaukee Public Museums: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1983.
• Runkel, Sylvan T. and Alvin F. Bull. Wildflowers of the Iowa Woodlands. Wallace Homestead Book Company: Des Moines, Iowa, 1979.
• Scanlan, Peter T. Prairie du Chien. George Banta Publishing Company: Menasha, Wisconsin, 1937.
• Speerstra, Karen. The Earthshapers. Naturegraph Publishers, Inc.: California, 1980.
• Woodland Period. Office of the State Archaeologist: Iowa City, Iowa.

Video Tapes & Slides

Video tapes and slide packets are available on loan free of charge by calling the monument at (319) 873-3491. Each slide pack includes 20 slides of artifacts and scenes of the monument. Packets of slides and videos on loan must be returned by mail or brought in the day of your visit.

• Earthshapers. 15 minutes
• More than Bows and Arrows. 51 minutes
• Myths and Mound Builders. 46 minutes
• National Parks: An American Legacy. 28 minutes
• White Wolf. 60 minutes
• The Wolf--A Howling in America's National Parks. 25 minutes