Archeological Investigations at Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark (40HR7), 1999-2004 Shiloh National Military Park, Hardin County, Tennessee. Volume 2 of 2.

摘要

Mounds have been built by prehistoric cultures in the southeaster U.S. as early as the Middle Archaic (Gibson and Carr 2004; Saunders et al. 2005). Through time we see a general trend from mounds and rare in-depth preparation of the building site increasingly complex earthen structures of non-local building materials, and complex landscape modifications. Due in large part to changing river patterns, a large portion of Mound A of the Shiloh Mound complex and Shiloh National Military Park is eroding into the Tennessee River. Mound A is one of the largest late prehistoric Mississippian period Indian mounds in the Tennessee River Valley, and one of the largest mounds on National Park Service land. The mound and village complex were built in the centuries immediately following a.d. 1000, when the site was the political and ceremonial center of a society dominating this part of the region.