Discover some of the rich resources in our national parks through the eyes of archeologists who research and analyze these important places. Use the links below to access a variety of online resources about archeological investigations at national parks. You’ll also find links to National Park Service regional and nationwide research and some research tools to assist you if you wish to delve deeper into our shared past.

NPS Archeology online resources

Research tools

Alabama
- Little River Canyon National Preserve
  - Cultural Resources
Ivory figurine excavated from Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Alaska
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
  - Historical and Cultural Significance
- Katmai National Park
  - Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of the Katmai and Aniakchak National Park Units, Alaska
- Kenai Fjords National Park
  - A Stern and Rock-Bound Coast: Kenai Fjords Historic Resource Study
- Klondike Gold Rush National Park
- Wrangell-St.Elias National Park and Preserve
  - Archeology
- Yukon-Charley National Preserve
  - Archeology
Arizona
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
  - Administrative History: Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
  
  1848 Drawing of the Casa Grande
  - Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona: A Centennial History of the First Prehistoric Reserve 1892 – 1992, An Administrative History
- Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
  - Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site An Administrative History
- Montezuma Castle National Monument
  - A Past Preserved in Stone: A History of Montezuma Castle National Monument
  - Historical Handbook: Montezuma National Monument, Arizona
- Navajo National Monument
  - Trails, Ruins, the Navajo
  - Navajo National Monument:A Place and Its People, An Administrative History
- Puebloan Ancestors of the Paiute tribe at Parashant
  
  Parashant National Monument
  - Archeology
- Tonto National Monument
  - Cultural Resources
  - Virtual Tour
- Walnut Canyon National Monument
  - Archeology
- Wupatki National Monuments
  - History and Culture
Arkansas
- 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
- Excavation of the chapel area at the Presidio
  
  Golden Gate National Recreation Area
  - Presidio of San Francisco Archeology
- Lassen Volcanic National Park
  - A History in Photographs
- Point Reyes National Seashore
  - Archeology
- Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
  - One Land: Many People, Many Ways
Colorado
- Curecanti National Recreation Area
  - Archeology
- Field archeologists examine the condition of alcove sites at Mesa Verde that have not been visited in many years
  
  Mesa Verde National Park
- Rocky Mountain National Park
  - Prehistoric and Historic Archaeological Sites
- Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
  - Special Resources Study (PDF)
- Yucca House National Monument
  - Yucca House In Depth
Pot sherds excavated from the Manna Site at Delaware Gap are matched and packed

Delaware
- Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
  - Archeology
District of Columbia
- National Capitol Region Archeology
  - Regional Archeology Program
  - Virtual Exhibits
- Rock Creek Park
  - Prehistoric Landscapes of the Nation's Capital
Biscayne National Park is rich with submerged archeological sites in the form of shipwrecks, such as The Mandalay

Florida
- Biscayne National Park
  - Cultural Resources
- De Soto National Monument
  - Volunteer Archeology (SEAC)
- Dry Tortugas National Park
  - Underwater Excavations
- Everglades National Park
  - Archeological Resources
- Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve
  - Kingsley Plantation
Georgia
- Andersonville National Historical Site
  - Archeology at Andersonville (SEAC)
- Stafford cabin chimney at Cumberland Island National Seashore
  
  Cumberland Island National Seashore
  - Archeological Investigations at Cumberland Island National Seashore, Stafford and Rayfield Plantations (SEAC)
- Fort Frederica National Monument
  - Frederica: An 18th Century Planned Community
- Fort Pulaski National Monument
  - Echoes from the Past: The Archeology of Fort Pulaski
  - Fort Pulaski NM Administrative History (PDF)
- Ocmulgee National Monument
  - Historical Handbook
Guam
- War of the Pacific National Historical Park
  - War in the Pacific NHP: Archeology and History in Guam
Hawaii
- Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail
  - Comprehensive Management Plan (PDF)
- Haleakala National Park
  - Living Cultures
- 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
  - Cultural History
- Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park
  - Cultural History
- Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
  - Cultural History
- USS Arizona Memorial
  - Submerged Cultural Resources Study
Idaho
- Nez Perce National Historical Park
  - Nez Perce National Historical Park Administrative History
Indiana
- Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
  - Archeology
An early Effigy Mounds exhibit containing human skeletal remains

Iowa
- Effigy Mounds
  - The Perpetual March: An Administrative History of Effigy Mounds National Monument
Kansas
- Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
  - Archeological Investigation of an Exoduster Neighborhood
Kentucky
- Mammoth Cave National Park
  - Archeology at Mammoth Cave
  - Mammoth Cave: Its Explorers, Miners, Archeologists, and Visitors (TWHP lesson plan)
One of three surviving slave cabins at Oakland Plantation, Cane River Creole NHP

Louisianna
- 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
- Chamber pot from Fort McHenry
  
  Fort McHenry National Monument
  - Archeological Treasures at Fort McHenry
- Monocacy National Battlefield
  - Best Farm Identification and Evaluation Study (project summary)
  - Civil War Agricultural Landscape (PDF)
  - An Application of GIS at the Best Farm (PDF)
Massachusetts
- Salem Maritime National Historic Site
  - Archeology at the Custom House
- This partially slit flat piece of wrought iron from Saugus iron mills reveals details about industry at the mills
  
  Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
  - Explore Saugus Iron Works
  - Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site (TWHP lesson plan)
Michigan
- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
  - Submerged Resources Report
Minnesota
- Pipestone National Monument
  - Managing the Sacred and the Secular: An Administrative History of Pipestone National Monument
- Voyageurs National Park
  - People of the Thick Fir Woods
Mississippi
- Natchez Trace Parkway
  - Bailey Farm (PDF)
  - Occupied between AD 1250 and 1600, Mississippi's Emerald Mound is the second-largest ceremonial earthwork in the United States
    
    Emerald Mound National Historic Landmark
Missouri
- Harry S. Truman National Historic Site
  - Preserving the Past: Archeology
- Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield
  - Civil War Archeology: Investigating the Battles at Wilson’s Creek and Pea Ridge
Bones of a human forearm and hand overlooked by the 1881 reburial party at Little Bighorn Battlefield, and discovered during the excavations

Montana
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
  - Archeology at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nevada
- Great Basin National Park
  - Johnson Lake Mine: Mining for Tungsten in Nevada’s Snake Range (TWHP lesson plan)
  - Nature and Culture
  - The Midden: Resource Management Newsletter
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
  - Historic Handbook: Aztec Ruins National Monument
- Bandelier National Monument
  - Bandelier National Monument: An Administrative History
  - Historical Handbook: Bandelier National Monument
- Chaco Culture National Historical Park
  - Collections of the NPS
- Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
  - Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History
- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
  - Gran Quivira Ruins
  - Pueblos of the Salinas Valley
  - Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village (TWHP lesson plan)
New York
- Fort Stanwix National Monument
  - Reconstructing the Past, Partnering for the Future: An Administrative History of Fort Stanwix National Monument
- 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
  - Welcome
  - Knife River: Early Village Life on the Plains (TWHP lesson plan)
Ohio
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
  - Archeological Investigations
- Human hand cut from mica at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
  
  Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Oregon
- Fort Clatsop National Memorial
  - Archeological Research
  - Fort Clatsop National Memorial Administrative History
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
  - Archeology
  - The Administrative History of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Pennsylvania
- Fort Necessity National Battlefield
  - Archeology
- Archaeologists direct machinery working to expose buried backyards and building basements at the construction site of the Independence Visitor Center between 1999 and 2000
  
  Independence National Historical Park
  - Archeology
South Carolina
- Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
  - Archeology
- Fort Sumter National Monument
  - Archeology at Fort Sumter
  - Interpreting Slavery and Civil Rights at Fort Sumter National Monument (PDF)
- Ninety Six National Historic Site
  - Archeology at Ninety Six National Historic Site
South Dakota
- Badlands National Park
  - Human History
- 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
- Stones River National Battlefield
  - Cultural Resources
Texas
- Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
  - Archeology
- Pictographs in Panther Cave at Amistad National Recreation Area
  
  Amistad National Recreation Area
  - Archeology
- Big Bend National Park
  - Archeology in Big Bend
  - Landscape of Ghosts, River of Dreams: A History of Big Ben National Park
Utah
- The Waterpocket Fold at Capitol Reef National Park
  
  Capital Reef National Park
  - Petroglyph Pullout
  - Barrier to Crossroads: An Administrative History of Capitol Reef National Park
- Dinosaur National Monument
  - Archeology
- Zion National Park
  - Archeology at Zion
Virginia
- Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
  - Mariah Wright House (report)
  - Road and Parking Improvements (report)
- A Submerged Resources Center archeologist taking a GPS position on a structure at Assateague Island National Seashore
  
  Assateague Island National Seashore
  - Submerged Resources
- Colonial National Historical Park
  - Green Spring
  - Jamestown Island Revisited 1607 (CRM special issue)
  - Jamestown—Rediscovery Project
  - The Townsite and Its Story
- Frederick and Spotsylvania National Military Park
  - Archaeology at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park by James Madison University
- George Washingon’s Birthplace National Monument
  - Archeology and Collections
  - Historical Handbook: George Washington’s Birthplace National Monument
- Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
  - Archeology at Maggie Walker NHS
- National Park Service archeologists excavating the Nash site in Manassas
  
  Manassas National Battlefield Park
- Petersburg National Battlefield
  - City Point: Eppes Plantation (article)
  - Federal Picket Line, Petersburg Main Unit (project summary)
  - Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the Five Forks Unit (report)
  - A History of Petersburg National Battlefield (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
Washington
- Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve
  - Archeological Resources and Ethnographic Summary
  - The People
- Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
  - Chapter 9: Administrative History
- Olympic National Park
  - Discover Olympic People
- Mount Rainier National Park
  - What is Archeology?
- North Cascades National Park Complex
  - Report on Archeology
  - People and History
- Cleaning iron artifacts at Whitman Mission NHS
  
  Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Wisconsin
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
  - Islands of History
Wyoming
- Yellowstone National Park
  - Archeology
  - Marshall/Firehole Hotel Underwater Archeology Project

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NPS Archeology online resources

Research tools

Ivory figurine excavated from Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

1848 Drawing of the Casa Grande

Puebloan Ancestors of the Paiute tribe at Parashant

Excavation of the chapel area at the Presidio

Field archeologists examine the condition of alcove sites at Mesa Verde that have not been visited in many years

Pot sherds excavated from the Manna Site at Delaware Gap are matched and packed

Biscayne National Park is rich with submerged archeological sites in the form of shipwrecks, such as The Mandalay

Stafford cabin chimney at Cumberland Island National Seashore

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

An early Effigy Mounds exhibit containing human skeletal remains

One of three surviving slave cabins at Oakland Plantation, Cane River Creole NHP

Chamber pot from Fort McHenry

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

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

Bones of a human forearm and hand overlooked by the 1881 reburial party at Little Bighorn Battlefield, and discovered during the excavations

East wing excavation in 1919 at Aztec Ruins National Monument

British-made ceramic gorget from Fort Union Trading Post

Human hand cut from mica at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Archaeologists direct machinery working to expose buried backyards and building basements at the construction site of the Independence Visitor Center between 1999 and 2000

Aerial view of Shiloh National Military Park

Pictographs in Panther Cave at Amistad National Recreation Area

The Waterpocket Fold at Capitol Reef National Park

A Submerged Resources Center archeologist taking a GPS position on a structure at Assateague Island National Seashore

National Park Service archeologists excavating the Nash site in Manassas

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

Cleaning iron artifacts at Whitman Mission NHS