- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Etowah Mounds
- Contributor to Resource:
- Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Community Affairs
- Date of Original:
- 1708/2022
- Subject:
- History
Archaeology - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bartow County, Cartersville, 34.16533, -84.80231
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The Etowah Mounds in Bartow County include one of the largest Indian mounds in North America. The mounds, constructed during the Mississippian Period, served as platforms for public buildings in a town that occupied the site from around 1100 until the 1600s.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/archaeology-in-historic-preservation/m-7521/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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