The Prehistory of Missouri

The state of Missouri is so rich in Native American history that you can still go on productive arrowhead hunts. Michael J. O'Brien and W. Raymond Wood cover the earliest chartable periods in Missouri history, beginning about 9250 B.C. and continuing through the late Mississippian period. Color photographs of artifacts accompany the text, which expertly negotiates the territory between technical jargon and clear descriptions that explain to the layperson what types of artifacts can be found under which conditions, how the earliest Mississippians lived, what they might have looked like, and what traceable signs--cherts, arrowheads, fire pits--they left behind.