- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Etowah Indian Mound
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Date of Original:
- 1968-11
- Subject:
- Indigenous Peoples of North America
Historic sites
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- Pending, 1.55, 110.38333
- Medium:
- color slides
historic sites
historical archaeology
southeastern native american
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- From the National Register of Historic Places application form prepared by in 1972 by Francine Weiss, Archaeologist, Landmark Review Project: Etowah is an archaeological site located in a state park near Cartersville, Georgia, situated on the north bank of the Etowah River. The site's strategic location at the boundary between the Piedmont Province and the Great Valley Section made it ideal for resource exploitation and cultivation due to its rich floodplain and alluvial soils. Etowah features three large platform mounds (Mounds A, B, and C), two plaza areas, village debris, and a surrounding ditch with borrow pits. Early reports indicated the presence of at least four other smaller mounds that have since been destroyed. Mound A, the largest, measures approximately 330 by 380 feet at its base and rises to about 50 to 65 feet, featuring a clay ramp on its eastern side. Excavations at Etowah have been conducted for nearly a century. John P. Rogan initiated excavations between 1883 and 1885 under the direction of Cyrus Thomas of the Bureau of American Ethnology, focusing on Mound C and testing Mound B. Warren K. Moorehead of Phillips Academy conducted intensive excavations of Mound C between 1925 and 1927. Other significant excavations were carried out by Robert Wauchope, William Sears, Lewis Larson, and Roger Kelly between 1938 and the 1970s. Most early excavations focused on Mound C, which measured approximately 150 feet square at its base and 18 feet in height, believed to have served as a temple mound with five stages of construction. Mound C has yielded over 350 burials and evidence of successive post structures and buildings. The last level of Mound C contained Wilbanks ceramics, indicating it was a manifestation of the Wilbanks phase. Burials from the mound's perimeter dated from 950 to 1450 A.D. and included a variety of artifacts such as ear ornaments, engraved shell gorgets, copper celts, and marble statues. Larson’s excavations indicated objects that came from the Wilbanks archaeological site in Cherokee County, Georgia, located about midway between the towns of Cartersville, to the west, and Canton, to the east. Evidence of other phases has also been found at the site in various locations, including Mound B and the plaza area. Variant names include: Etowah Indian Mound
Etowah Mounds. See ref# 66000272 (Etowah Mounds) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx and https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75609309 - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_344
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_344#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_344/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
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