- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ocmulgee mounds
- Creator:
- Williams, Mark
- Date of Original:
- 2008-02-29
- Subject:
- Mounds--Georgia--Macon
Ocmulgee National Monument (Ga.)
Georgia--Antiquities
Mississippian culture--Georgia--Macon
Indians of North America--Antiquities - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Ocmulgee Mounds. The Ocmulgee site consists of a large and impressive group of mounds located along the fall line of the Ocmulgee River on the northeastern edge of Macon. Although there were many different periods of occupation at what is now Ocmulgee National Monument, the most prominent one began around 800 A.D., in the Early Mississippian period (A.D. 800-1100), and lasted for three centuries. During that time the occupants, who had emigrated from Tennessee or farther west, built many flat-topped earthen mounds, council chambers, and defensive structures in the mile-square town. Archaeologists know that they were immigrants because their pottery was completely different from that of the other people living in central Georgia at that time, but identical to pottery found on sites northwest of present-day Georgia.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ocmulgee-mounds/
- Language:
- eng
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