Collections
Archaeology curates approximately 1.5 million archaeological objects, which are representative of peoples who once inhabited North America, South and Central America, Europe, and Africa. Prehistoric materials from the Northern and Central Plains of North America form the core of Archaeology's collections.
Archaeological Collection
Kansas City Hopewell Collection
The Hopewell Collection is a Digital Library Initiatives Internal Grant project. The Collection contains high resolution and 3d images of artifacts from the Kansas City Hopewell.
Collection Sites
The DB Site
This site represented the activities of several different groups of people who revisited it over thousands of years.
The Morley Collection
These artifacts include examples of Pre-Columbian figurines, ceramic vessels, and jade necklaces from a variety of archaeological sites in Peru and Colombia.
Floyd Schultz Archives
Schultz began collecting artifacts from local archaeological sites in the 1920s and excavated many sites in the lower valley of the Republican River, primarily in Clay and Geary counties, Kansas.
The R.B. Aker Collection
R. B. Aker
Collected from sites recorded within an area about one mile wide and about 35 miles long from Parkville to St. Joseph, Missouri.