- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Nacoochee Mound
- Creator:
- Sanders, Darby Carl
Martin LaBar - Date of Original:
- 2008-05-08
- Subject:
- Mounds--Georgia--White County
Lamar culture--Georgia--White County
Creek Indians--Georgia--White County
Georgia--Antiquities
Mountains--Georgia--White County
Mississippian culture--Georgia--White County
Gazebos--Georgia--White County
Buildings--Georgia--White County
White County (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, White County, 34.64636, -83.74711
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Although the original Late Prehistoric earthen platform mound has been completely excavated, a reconstruction of the Nacoochee Mound can be seen today on private property in the Nacoochee Valley.
Photograph of a reconstruction of the Nacoochee Mound, which today sits on private property in the Nacoochee Valley in White County, Georgia. A small white gazebo stands atop the mound, and wooden posts surround the edges of the mound. Cows gather to the right of the mound. Mountains rise in the background.
The mound was excavated in 1915 by an expedition sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, the Heye Foundation, and the Bureau of American Ethnology, making it one of the earliest scientific excavations of its kind in the state. Although excavation techniques at that time were not so rigorously scientific as today's standards, the Nacoochee Mound excavations uncovered evidence for at least two mound stages with a total of seventy-five human burials, some of them intrusive from a later time. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lamar-period/m-703/
- Rights Holder:
- Photograph by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia
Martin LaBar
Photograph by Martin LaBar - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/creek-indians
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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