Nebo Hill Archeological Site

Nebo Hill Archeological Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Archaeological Survey of Missouri #23-CL-11
Location	Liberty, Missouri
NRHP Reference #	71000465[1]
Added to NRHP	March 4, 1971

Nebo Hill Archeological Site is a large hill a few miles southwest of Excelsior Springs, Missouri. It has the highest elevation in Clay County. One source states the hill is named after the family who owned the property in the 1900s,^[2] while according to another source the name is a transfer from Mount Nebo in Jordan.^[3]

Archaeological findings

The hill is now a large archaeological site, with several ancient Native American artifacts having been found there. This ancient culture has been named the Nebo Hill culture.^[2]

The ancient peoples lived along Fishing River, a tributary of the Missouri River. The culture flourished from 3,000 to 1,000 BCE. Their distinctive spearhead and axe designs have been found as far north as Canada.^[2] There have also been many pottery findings.^[4] Artifacts from the Nebo Hill culture have also been found at the Renner Site near Riverside, Missouri.^[5]

The Nebo Hill culture is a Late Archaic culture, and it is thought to be the ancestral to the later Kansas City Hopewellian culture.^[6]

References

1. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places-Missouri(MO), Clay County". Retrieved 2010-01-25. 
2. 1 2 3 "The Archaic Period". Fishing River. FishingRiver.com. Retrieved 2011-05-15. 
3. ↑ "Clay County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Retrieved 21 September 2016. 
4. ↑ http://associations.missouristate.edu/mas/programs/potterybrochure.pdf Archived July 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
5. ↑ "Renner-Brenner Site Park". GaryBrenner.com. Retrieved 2011-05-15. 
6. ↑ "KANSAS CITY HOPEWELL". Archived from the original on May 30, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010. 

External links

• Griffin, James B.; Morse, Dan F. (April 1961). "The Short-Nosed God from the Emmons Site, Illinois". American Antiquity. Society for American Archaeology. 26 (4): 560–563. doi:10.2307/278753. JSTOR 278753. 

Pre-Columbian North America
Periods Lithic Archaic Formative Classic Post-Classic
Archaeological cultures	Adena Alachua Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) Baytown Belle Glade Buttermilk Creek Complex Caborn-Welborn Calf Creek Caloosahatchee Clovis Coles Creek Deptford Folsom Fort Ancient Fort Walton Fremont Glacial Kame Glades Hohokam Hopewell List of Hopewell sites Leon-Jefferson Mississippian List of Mississippian sites Mogollon Monongahela Old Cordilleran Oneota Paleo-Arctic Paleo-Indians Patayan Plano Plaquemine Poverty Point Red Ocher Santa Rosa-Swift Creek St. Johns Steed-Kisker Tchefuncte Tocobaga Troyville
Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds Anzick Clovis burial Bandelier National Monument The Bluff Point Stoneworks Cahokia Casa Grande Chaco Canyon Coso Rock Art District Crystal River Archaeological State Park Eaker Effigy Mounds National Monument Etowah Indian Mounds Eva Folsom Site Fort Ancient Fort Center Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Glenwood Grimes Point Holly Bluff Site Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Kimball Village Kincaid Mounds Kolomoki Mounds L'Anse aux Meadows Marksville Marmes Rockshelter Meadowcroft Rockshelter Mesa Verde Moaning Cavern Moorehead Circle Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena Site Ocmulgee National Monument Old Stone Fort Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Portsmouth Earthworks Poverty Point Pueblo Bonito Recapture Canyon Rock Eagle Rock Hawk Russell Cave National Monument Salmon Ruins Serpent Mound Spiro Mounds SunWatch Taos Pueblo Toltec Mounds Town Creek Indian Mound Turkey River Mounds Upward Sun River site West Oak Forest Earthlodge Winterville Wupatki National Monument
Human remains	Anzick-1 Arlington Springs Man Buhl Woman Kennewick Man La Brea Woman Leanderthal Lady Minnesota Woman Spirit Cave mummy
Miscellaneous	Black drink Ceremonial pipe Chunkey Clovis point Container Revolution Eastern Agricultural Complex Eden point Effigy mound Falcon dancer Folsom point Green Corn Ceremony Horned Serpent Kiva Medicine wheel Metallurgy Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing Mound Builders N.A.G.P.R.A. Norse colonization of the Americas Piasa Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Stickball Three Sisters agriculture Thunderbird Underwater panther Water glyphs
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Coordinates: 39°12′36″N 94°21′15″W / 39.21000°N 94.35417°W / 39.21000; -94.35417