Swallow Bluff Island Mounds information

The Swallow Bluff Island Mounds (40HR16) comprise a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Saltillo on Swallow Bluff Island in the Tennessee...

island was named for the swallows which congregated there. Swallow Bluff Island contains the ancient Swallow Bluff Island Mounds. The state of Tennessee...

chiefdom included six smaller towns (each with one or two mounds such as the Swallow Bluff Island Mounds site), and isolated farmsteads scattered on higher ground...

River on one of the mounds. The house is now known as the Cherry Mansion. Shiloh Indian Mounds Site Swallow Bluff Island Mounds List of Mississippian...

the mounds were in circulation, typically involving the mounds being built by a race of giants. A New York Times article from 1897 described a mound in...

Paul D. (Summer 2004). Michael C. Moore (ed.). "Fieldwork at Swallow Bluff Island Mounds, Tennessee (40HR16) in 2003" (PDF). Tennessee Archaeology. 1...

900 to 955 CE. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, the mound size was calculated in 1988 as about 100...

mound. "Remains of Giants in Arkansas". The Marysville Tribune. September 21, 1870. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2024. "Myths and Misconceptions – Bluff...

1964. The mounds are listed on the Mississippi Mound Trail. One of the half dozen really big sites in the State of Mississippi, the Holly Bluff site is...

hundreds. The site is dominated by two large platform mounds, with at least eight smaller mounds scattered around a central plaza area. Agriculture was...

Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico. Cahokia Mounds is a...

This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over...

a number of adjoining mounds and an encircling ditch that are no longer present. This site once had six other secondary mounds which were lost due to...

on the mound seem to have been added to stop slumping of the enormous mound. Although the mounds were primarily meant as substructure mounds for buildings...

Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters (2,790 ft) to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early...

burial mound. The people built rectangular wooden buildings to house certain religious ceremonies on the top of the platform mounds. The mounds at Ocmulgee...

excavators initially reported the recovery of what they believed to be Cobb Island pottery in the plow zone and much Dallas material from the level excavations...

Register of Historic Places. The Portavant Mound (or Snead Island Temple Mound) is one of fifteen or more "temple mounds" produced by the Safety Harbor culture...

regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well. It was composed of a series of urban settlements...

550 AD. It is one of the earliest mounds in the Appalachian Summit along with the similarly aged Garden Creek Mound, both of which are in the French Broad...

of local styles, such as the "Craig style" of Spiro Mounds, the "Hightower style" of Etowah Mounds and the "Hemphill style" of Moundville. Avian imagery...

Kincaid built at least 19 earthwork mounds during this period, mostly the characteristic Mississippian platform mounds. Since 2003 teams from Southern Illinois...

Today, about 80 mounds are preserved in the nearby Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site directly across the Mississippi River. Sugarloaf Mound is the only one...

throughout its history, spanning from 1000 to 1550 CE. It is located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Other contemporaneous groups in the area...

 1325–1375 CE. Etowah has three main platform mounds and three lesser mounds. The Temple Mound, Mound A, is 63 feet (19 m) high, taller than a six-story...

includes six large platform mounds (Mounds A through F), five smaller mounds (Mounds H through L), and at least one large plaza. Mound G, which is older than...

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mound and additional layers were added over time. This is one of three surviving mound complexes in the panhandle, the others being Letchworth Mounds...