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    Bottle Creek Indian Mounds (1BA2) is an archaeological site owned and monitored by the Alabama Historical Commission located on a low swampy island within...
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    County, Alabama, United States. It is the nearest community to Bottle Creek Indian Mounds, a National Historic Landmark. The community is part of the...
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    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...
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    Etowah Indian Mounds (9BR1) are a 54-acre (220,000 m2) archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, south of Cartersville. Built and occupied in three...
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    Town Creek Indian Mound (31 MG 2) is a prehistoric Native American archaeological site located near present-day Mount Gilead, Montgomery County, North...
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  • colonization.) Perhaps the best known Pensacola culture site is the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds site, a large site located on a low swampy island north of Mobile...
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  • swamp, creeks, side channel sloughs, lakes and backwaters. The system also includes Bottle Creek which is near the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds. The trail...
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  • Resources. The shell middens located at Indian Mound Park date to the Mississippian period (1100 to 1550). The mounds were visited throughout this period...
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  • 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...
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  • Creek Angel Mounds Aztalan Barton Gulch Brunswick Town Historic District Blackwater Draw Blood Run Site Blythe Intaglios Bottle Creek Indian Mounds Burton...
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  • the south, was slowly occupied by Burial Urn people from the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds area in the Mobile, Alabama, delta. They were joined by remnants...
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    burial mound. The people built rectangular wooden buildings to house certain religious ceremonies on the top of the platform mounds. The mounds at Ocmulgee...
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  • Mississippi was slowly occupied by Burial Urn people from the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds area in the Mobile, Alabama delta, along with remnants of people...
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    Walton Mound with one large paramount chiefdom located at the Bottle Creek site. The site is the largest on the Gulf Coast and with 18 mounds is comparable...
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    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...
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    Alabama. These include the Alabama State Capitol, Belle Mont, Bottle Creek Indian Mounds, Confederate Park, Fendall Hall, Fort Mims, Fort Morgan, Fort...
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    University of Alabama Museums "Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail". Bottle Creek Mounds Jere Shine site King site "Mound at Fort Toulouse – Fort Jackson Park". University...
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    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...
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    Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mounds)
    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...
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    house mounds, and eight mounds. Seven of the mounds were substructure platform mounds and the seventh was a Woodland period conical burial mound. It was...
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  • Calusa (redirect from Calusa Indian)
    was destroyed by Creek and Yamasee raiders early in the 18th century. Evidence shows that the Calusa buried their departed in mounds. After death, a body...
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    platform mounds. By 1700, the Natchez occupied a territory that covered only an area roughly between Fairchilds Creek and South Fork Coles Creek in the...
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  • and drills found at other major Mississippian mound centers including Cahokia and Bottle Creek Indian Mounds. Other evidence of interaction with Cahokia...
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    to the several southern Native American confederacies (the Choctaw and Creek peoples) who later emerged in the region. The modern city of Tuscaloosa...
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    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...
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    List of Mississippian sites (category Mounds in the United States)
    from the original on 2009-03-01. Retrieved 2007-10-13. "Indian Mounds of Mississippi : Boyd Mounds Site". NPS.GOV. Lankford, George E.; Reilly, F. Kent;...
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    Archaeology. University of Alabama Press. pp. 84–93. "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana:Fitzhugh Mounds". Louisiana Dept. Culture, Recreation and Tourism...
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    Bottle Creek Indian Mounds...
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    the Obion Mounds near Paris, Tennessee and the Ware Mounds site in Union County, Illinois. The Ware site example was found buried in Mound 1 by Thomas...
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    regional center had several mounds and 200 or more houses. Some of the surviving mounds are protected in Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park....
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