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Etowah Indian Mounds
Mississippian, Etowah phase 1000–1550 CE · Mississippian (Muscogean ancestors)
19-m Mississippian Temple mound with copper falcon plates and marble effigies.
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Castalian Springs Mound Site
Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1100–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Castalian Springs phase)
Premier Middle Cumberland Mississippian town (1100–1350 CE) centered on mineral spring: two major platform mounds (Mound 1 6 m high 55×45 m, Mound 2 burial 3 m) plus smaller mound, large plaza and…
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Garden Creek Mounds
Mississippian Pisgah & Qualla phases (1000–1450 CE) · Mississippian (Pisgah, later Cherokee precursor)
Three-mound Mississippian Pisgah phase (1000–1450 CE) center at Garden Creek confluence with Pigeon River, southern Appalachians: Mound 1—platform 35×25 m base, 3.5 m high with two-stage summit…
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Monks Mound
Mississippian 900–1200 CE (peak 1050–1200) · Mississippian (Cahokia)
Largest earthen structure in the Americas north of Mexico and centerpiece of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.
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Emerald Mound
Plaquemine Mississippian Emerald phase 1250–1600 CE · Plaquemine (Natchez)
Second-largest mound in N America, 10.7 m terraced pyramid, 1250–1600 CE.
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Moundville Archaeological Park
Mississippian 1000–1450 CE, apogee 1200–1350 CE · Mississippian (ancestral Choctaw/Chickasaw)
29-mound plaza center with grand chief's platform mound above Black Warrior River.
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Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site
Mississippian 1050–1400 CE (Kincaid phase) · Mississippian (Caborn-Welborn)
19-mound Mississippian town on Ohio River, 1050–1400 CE.
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Yon Mound and Village
Middle Woodland to Mississippian (100 BCE–1450 CE) · Swift Creek → Weeden Island → Fort Walton (late Mississippian)
Middle Woodland Swift Creek to Fort Walton Mississippian mound-village (100 BCE–1450 CE) on Apalachicola River terrace: flat-topped platform 6 m high (45×30 m) with ramp to plaza, adjacent burial…
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Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park
Middle Woodland 1–500 CE (Pinson phase) · Middle Woodland (Pinson Mound culture, Hopewell-influenced)
Largest grouping of platform mounds in Tennessee and largest Middle Woodland earthwork complex: 17 mounds (12 platform, burial, effigy) in 1,200-acre Forked Deer River park, with Saul's Mound (Sauls’…
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Brick Church Mound and Village
Mississippian (Thruston phase 1000–1370 CE) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland – Thruston)
Mississippian mound-and-village on Mansker Creek near Nashville: platform mound 6 m high (50×35 m) rebuilt four times, truncating earlier Woodland component; village 4 ha with 300+ stone-box graves,…
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Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park
Late Woodland – early Mississippian, Plum Bayou 650–1050 CE · Plum Bayou (aboriginal ancestors of Quapaw? Coles Creek related, not Caddo Mississippian)
Best-preserved Plum Bayou-culture platform-mound center (650–1050 CE) – 18 mounds (two tallest 15 m and 12 m) arranged geometrically around rectangular plazas and an earthwork embankment with…