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Multi-periodSite Name: Ocmulgee National MonumentCountry: United States
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Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Macon, GA
Latitude: 32.842600N Longitude: 83.6036W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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As is was built along the edge of the plateau (terraced and back filled,) people approaching from river would have seen what appears to be a single, massive 90 foot tall structure with important buildings on its heights.
Other mounds include a burial mound and earth lodges, one of which has been recreated using the evidence of the excavation, including a raised "eagle shaped" platform, hearth, and seating. The town surrounding the mound area was substantial, probably one of the largest cities of the time period in what is now the south eastern United States.
Although the mound center declined, the area was still populated. Around 1350 AD a village and several mounds just downstream from Ocmulgee was the center of the Lamarr Phase.
In the 1600's the northern Georgia and Alabama Muskogean-speaking peoples living on the Macon Plateau visited the mound sites as a sacred area. In general these people were called "The Creeks" by the English, who established a fort and trading post they called "Ocmulgee Town".
Only a small area of the known pre-historic sites are within the boundaries of the modern park. Development in the Macon area continues to cover the remains of ancient farmsteads, terraces, and other sites. These structures were more obvious to English colonists: 1774, William Bartram. "On the heights of these low grounds are yet visible monuments, or traces, of an ancient town, such as artificial mounts or terraces, squares and banks, encircling considerable areas. Their old fields and planting land extend up and down the river, fifteen or twenty miles from this site. .... this place is remarkable for being the first town or settlement, when [the Creeks] sat down (as they term it,) after their emigration ..."
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