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Obion Mounds
Mississippian (Early–Middle, Dallas) · Mississippian (Western Tennessee)
Largest western TN Mississippian: 7 mounds, 10-m platform and plaza on Obion River (1000–1300 CE).
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Mississippian (Early–Middle, Dallas) · Mississippian (Western Tennessee)
Largest western TN Mississippian: 7 mounds, 10-m platform and plaza on Obion River (1000–1300 CE).
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Mississippian (Hiwassee Island / Dallas) · Mississippian (Tennessee Valley)
Type site Hiwassee Island phase (900–1400 CE) — 5 mounds at Tennessee-Hiwassee confluence.
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Middle Mississippian (c.1000–1450 CE) – Thruston phase Middle Cumberland · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland culture)
The Fewkes Group (Boiling Springs, 40Wm1) is a fortified Middle Mississippian town on the Harpeth River near Brentwood, Tennessee, at 210 m.
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Mississippian (Shiloh phase, 1000–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Western Tennessee)
Fortified Mississippian town (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and 2 km palisade on Tennessee River bluff, Shiloh.
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Mississippian (Moundville–Thruston) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland)
Fortified Cumberland River town (1000–1400 CE) with 5 mounds and richest Mississippian stone statuary in Middle TN.
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Late Mississippian (Dyer phase) · Mississippian (Reelfoot)
Late Mississippian hamlet mound (1250–1500 CE) on Forked Deer River — palisaded 1-ha village at Dyer County.
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Mississippian (Jonathan Creek phase) · Mississippian (Western Kentucky)
Western KY Mississippian village (1200–1450 CE) — 7 platform mounds on Tennessee River near Aurora.
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Mississippian (Middle–Late, Thruston–Dallas) · Mississippian (Western Valley)
Largest mound-count site in TN (51 mounds, 1100–1500 CE) above Duck–Buffalo confluence; source of Duck River Cache.
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Fort Walton Mississippian 1050–1500 CE · Fort Walton (Apalachee) Mississippian
Mississippian chiefdom capital on Lake Jackson with 11 m platform mound and famed repoussé copper plates.