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Home / Society / History / By Region / North America / Ancient Age / Mississippian-Moundbuilders
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Web Sites
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- Ancient Architects of the Mississippi - Article about the earthworks of the Mississippian "moundbuilders."
www.cr.nps.gov/aad/feature/feature.htm
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site - Several mounds including Monks Mound, the largest earthen mound in the New World. This web site includes information on the interpretive center, and presents photos, history, and event calendar at this World Heritage site.
medicine.wustl.edu/%7emckinney/cahokia/cahokia.html
- Dickson Mounds Museum - Dickson Mounds Museum, a branch of the Illinois State Museum and a National Historic Site, is one of the major on-site archaeological museums in the United States. It offers a unique opportunity to explore the world of the American Indian in an awe inspiring journey through 12,000 years of human experience in the Illinois River Valley.
www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/dickson
- Mississippian Moundbuilders And Their Artifacts - Image gallery of Mississippian pottery, pipes, jewelry, beads, and other artifacts.
www.mississippian-artifacts.com
- Moundbuilders: North Georgia's Early Inhabitants - Brief history of the Mississippian culture and the Etowah Indian Mounds.
ngeorgia.com/history/early.html
- Oneota - Massive bibliography of Oneota-related texts and websites.
www.angelfire.com/wi/oneota
- Southern Cult Iconography Decoded - Presents a theory that total solar eclipse phenomena provides the key to decoding the religious iconography of the Mississippian moundbuilders Native American culture.
southernculticonography.homestead.com
- The American Bottom Landing Site - This site holds information on the Cahokia site in East St Louis, Illinois, as well as the more recent history of the area.
museum.state.il.us/RiverWeb/landings/Ambot
- The American Indian in Tennessee - Traces the last 15,000 years of Native American occupation of Tennessee, using artifacts from the McClung Museum's collections. Includes the Duck River Cache dating from the Late Mississippian period (ca. AD 1450).
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/archaeol/archaeol.htm
- The Woodland and Mississippian Traditions - The Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, possesses a diverse collection of artifacts from the Woodland and Mississippian cultures of eastern North America. Not only are all of the major culture areas represented, but also a multitude of vessel forms anddecorative techniques. The collections provide an excellent basis for a survey of the ceramic art of the early inhabitants of southeastern North America before the arrival of the Europeans.
www.beloit.edu/~museum/logan/mississippian/introduction/disclaimer.htm
- Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site - Archaeology, protohistory, and ceremony in the Pee Dee River Valley of North Carolina.
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/town/town.htm
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