User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/16


 * ... that the geology of North America includes the core of the supercontinent Laurentia?
 * ... that the fossil scorpion fly Holcorpa was described in 1878 but the family Holcorpidae not until 1989?
 * ... that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
 * ... that the final version of the 33 m Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was completely destroyed by archaeologists in 1965?
 * ... that artefacts of the poorly understood Mezcala culture of western Mexico were re-used by the Aztecs?
 * ... that Leptofoenus pittfieldae is the only species of Leptofoenus documented from the West Indies and the only member of Leptofoenus in the fossil record?
 * ...that the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama, yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
 * ... that a Kitkehahki Pawnee village  in Nebraska is the site where Zebulon Pike convinced the Kitkehahki to remove a Spanish flag and display an American flag?
 * ... that the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the biggest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest?
 * ... that Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure in Ohio was once part of a group of archaeological sites that has since been submerged by a reservoir?