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A Brief Synopsis of Iranian History: From the Paleolithic to the Mongols

The earliest evidence of human occupation within the Iranian plateau comes primarily from archaeological remains in caves and rock shelters that date to the Early Paleolithic, circa 45,000 BC. (Fisher 1968). These early inhabitants lived in a very dynamic environment, which required a mobile lifestyle of hunting and gathering. It would not be for another several thousand years that these short-term encampments began shifting to longer-term sedentary settlements centered close to rivers and fresh water sources.

The MPM Collection

The Milwaukee Public Museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Mexican Kickapoo material in the United States.

This is due to the fieldwork conducted by Ritzenthaler and Peterson in the 1950s and Felipe and Dolores Latorre in the 1960s and 1970s.

Stockbridge-Munsee

Stockbridge-Munsee Culture

Originally, the Native people who made up the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe came from Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. During the 1770s, Stockbridge -- a mixed Native and White Christian community -- was formed in western Massachusetts, largely drawing on members of the Mahikan or Mohican tribe which occupied eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and parts of western Connecticut.