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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Lamar Mounds Alternative Name: Ocmulgee National Monument, Ocmulgee Indian Mounds
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Macon, GA
Latitude: 32.838816N  Longitude: 83.60884W
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Lamar Mounds
Lamar Mounds submitted by Flickr : The Lamar Mounds and Village, a detached unit of Ocmulgee National Monument at Macon, is the type site for a widespread Mississippian/protohistoric culture. The town covered approximately 21.5 acres and was surrounded by a log pallisade. Two mounds were constructed: Mound A, a 25' high, truncated, rectangular temple mound; and Mound B, a slightly smaller, circular, flat-topped mound ascended co... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Mounds in Bibb County, Georgia.
The Lamar Mounds are within the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park. The mounds and an adjacent village area are the remains of a Post Classical Mississippian village that was occupied and active at the time of the DeSoto exploration.

The features include a unique spiral mound.

The Lamar site is not developed and lies in a floodplane. In dry weather, visitors may request a permit from the main office in the Ocmulgee Visitor's Center and hike back to the Lamar site.

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Lamar Mounds
Lamar Mounds submitted by AKFisher : The Lamar Mound, Georgia. You can arrange a visit to this mound site at the Ocmulgee Mounds Visitor's Center. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamar Mounds
Lamar Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Archaeological reconstruction of the Lamar mound site in Georgia from © the mound encyclopedia. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamar Mounds
Lamar Mounds submitted by Flickr : Image from page 99 of "Bulletin" (1901) Sherds from Lamar Mound and village site, emphasizing the stamping technique so characteristic of this village site. Incised with reed punctate occurs frequently. Note the Lamar specialization of the rim. Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Image copyright: Internet Archive... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamar Mounds
Lamar Mounds submitted by Flickr : The Big Mound (A) https://web.archive.org/web/20080608145232/http://www.nps.gov:80/history/nagpra/fed_notices/nagpradir/nic0540.html Image copyright: sctag1015 (Andrew Has a Camera), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamar Mounds
Lamar Mounds submitted by Flickr : Lamar Spiral Mound Lamar Spiral Mound, Macon, GA, 2005 Image copyright: Brown's Guides (Fred Brown), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Lamar Mounds
Lamar Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Plan of the mounds, from "Indian antiquities..." via archive.org

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Re: CRAZED COLLECTORS, CRIMINALS: Trafficking US artifacts is a $5-$6 billion busines by Andy B on Monday, 24 December 2018
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Between 1933 and 1938, human remains representing nine individuals
were recovered from the Lamar Mounds and Village site during legally
authorized projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. No
known individuals were identified. The 37 associated funerary objects
are 25 shell beads, 1 bag of beads, 1 worked shell, 3 bone awls, 2
stone discoidals, 2 shell earplugs, 2 stone celts, and 1 tobacco pipe.
The Lamar Mounds and Village site consists of two mounds, A and B,
and a palisaded village area. Archeological evidence indicates that the
Lamar Mounds and Village site was occupied during the entire Middle and
Late Mississippian periods (A.D. 1200-1650). The site is believed to be
the town of Ichisi (Spanish) or Ochisi (Portugese) encountered by the
Hernando de Soto expedition in 1540. Occupation of the site may have
continued into the early 18th century.

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How Mexican plants and architecture reached the heartland of North America by Andy B on Friday, 21 May 2010
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Part 5: Ocmulgee National Monument

There is much still to learn about the 12 mile long conurbation known as Ocmulgee Bottoms. It has not been seriously studied by archaeologists since 1940.

In the basement of the Ocmulgee National Monument museum sits hundreds of boxes that were filled, sealed and stacked between 1936 and 1940. They contain the artifacts uncovered at Ocmulgee during the late 1930s. Incredibly, after 74 years, most of these artifacts have never seen the light of day, much less, been looked at by an archaeologist. They have never even been cleaned. The contents of these boxes could change the world of archaeology some day.

The massive archaeological investigation in Ocmulgee Bottoms was a pet project of President Franklin Roosevelt, who lived much of the time in the Little White House in Warm Springs, GA. He also established the Southeast Archaeological Center at Ocmulgee. It was moved to Tallahassee in 1972, when Richard Nixon was President. Ocmulgee no longer has a professional archaeologist on its staff because of budget cuts.

Until 8 years ago another and older Native American town with 27 visible mounds, was located downstream on the Ocmulgee River, about 100 miles. The 27 mounds were bulldozed by a paper company so archaeologists would not interfere with their tree planting program. This older town could very well have been the Mother Town of Mother Towns.

The acropolis of Ocmulgee is located on slight bend at a high terrace overlooking the Ocmulgee River. Standing on the top of the terrace, one could have seen canoes on the river for miles away. Around 900 AD many large canoes did come up the river, presumably from the bulldozed town downstream. They established a palisaded trading village and started work on the first mound. This was about 150 years before construction was begun on the first platform mound at Cahokia.

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America's architectural heritage: Ocmulgee National Monument by Andy B on Friday, 21 May 2010
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Who where these people and where did they come from?

One day around the year 900 AD, a group of Wahatli (Southerners or Chontal Maya) paddled their Feathered Serpent canoes up to the foot of a terrace at the shoals of the Ocmulgee River across from the Okamoletli village. Okamoletli means “people of the swirling water in the Hitchiti-Creek language. The location is now in Macon, Georgia. They brought with them women from many different lands, tools, and many baskets of provisions. Upon landing, they immediately climbed up to the top of the terrace and began cutting away at the brush and trees. They were building temporary shelters. A few hunters and fishermen from other hamlets peeked from behind trees at safe enough distance, so no one could see them. They wondered what the Wahatli were up to and why they would chose this spot to build a village. The old village sites down the river seemed more logical since they gave easy access to fields and ponds.

This ancient place had been used by generations for feasting on mussels, fishing, trading, camping and socializing. There had been a few farmhouses on the terrace, but it had never been much more than a spot where people stayed a few days and then left. Most people passing through just camped on the banks of the river, close to their canoes.

The sight of the Feathered Serpents spread terror throughout the hamlets in the region that had not been part of the diplomatic agreement. For four hundred years the appearance of strangers was a portend of either wonderful new things or else dark catastrophe. Upon landing at a village, some visitors were friendly and offered new types of foods, while other strangely clad warriors would use a stick with a string tied between the ends to send small, deadly spears long distances either to kill the men or set fire to the buildings. The raiders would grab and club as man young women and youth of both genders, that could fit in their canoes, and then depart. Over time, all of the villages south of river shoals had been abandoned. The survivors either migrated north of the shoals where the feathered serpent canoes could not travel, or dispersed into small family bands that lived away from the rivers.

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Re: CRAZED COLLECTORS, CRIMINALS: Trafficking US artifacts is a $5-$6 billion busines by Condros on Sunday, 05 April 2009
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If "On-Line" auction outlets cannot secure the provenance of any ancient artifact from the seller, it should merely not allow the transaction.
When it comes to "Open Auctions" a list of known traffickers should be made available to those auction owners, and penalities for looting archaeological artifacts should include the managers, or staff who will not require provenance of the items being offered.
I know the above statement might cause a lot of problems, for those collectors using both on-line and open auctions, as well as the management of those enterprises, But if the criminals involved cannot sell their ill-gotten artifacts, or it's minimised to such a degree, than the incentive to loot will be minimised as well.
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CRAZED COLLECTORS, CRIMINALS: Trafficking US artifacts is a $5-$6 billion business by bat400 on Friday, 12 September 2008
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Story on "tomb raiding" in the US is illustrated by the LaMarr Mound in Georgia.

Capt. Dan Parrish, who works as a special investigator for the state Department of Natural Resources, recalls an operation years ago that introduced him to looting.

For months, he had been working undercover, posing as a buyer, to gather evidence about a man who was selling wildlife products illegally and, it turned out, stolen guns and drugs as well.

Parrish, wearing a wire, was poised to arrest the suspect. "Then he offers me human body parts," Parrish recalled. "I asked where they were from, and he said he had a skull from an Indian burial."

After some bargaining, the man agreed to a $150 price. But when Parrish had only $50 handy, the dealer wrote him a receipt for the initial payment. That slip of paper later sealed his conviction for looting.

In more recent years, looting of graves and archaeological sites has become ever more lucrative, spawning an entire criminal network, Georgia law enforcement officials say. And looting tends to increase during economic downturns and droughts, both of which have hit Georgia in the last year.

LAMAR LOOTED

With written permission from the landowner, it's legal to search for artifacts on private land in Georgia. But digging archaeological sites without permission, or on state and federal land, is illegal. On federal land, such as the Ocmulgee National Monument or Oconee National Forest, it can be prosecuted as a felony. And the penalties only get worse if burials are involved.

But it's hard to prove where an artifact came from unless the looter is caught in the act of digging or admits its origin when selling it.
"There are a number of known local looters," said Jim David, superintendent of the Ocmulgee National Monument, which suffered looting last year. "But you frequently don't have quite enough proof to make a case," David said.

The monument's Lamar Mounds site, which is separated from the main body of the park, was damaged by a series of holes last year. Looters targeted the two mounds, including the only spiral mound in North America, and the surrounding forest where a town stood between 1350 and 1600.

The Ocmulgee Archaeological Society and the Georgia Society of Professional Archaeologists offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the looters. Although many tips were received- including information about looting in five or six surrounding counties - no arrests have been made on the Lamar crime, Parrish said.

Since the incident, which took place over several days, park rangers have changed the timing and frequency of their patrols at the Lamar area. Last week Chief Ranger Guy LaChine drove down a muddy track through the woods, then walked the rest of the way to the mounds. He saw only wild pigs darting through waist-high grass.

LaChine said the looters entered through nearby private property and left some physical clues that could eventually help convict them.

The steep-sided mounds are surrounded by a 12-foot fence with barbed wire that was erected in 1988, following a major looting there. Since last year's crime, razor wire and electronic surveillance have been added.

Many looters do extensive research in libraries and archives to find unexcavated historical sites where digging might be fruitful.

Charles Louke said some people justify their actions this way: "They have this belief that we're allowing stuff to lay there and rot in the ground, and they're 'saving' it."

Louke is a senior instructor under the federal Department of Homeland Security who trains law enforcement officers across the country on how to investigate looting.

"That's not true. When you're just ripping it out of the ground without documentation, you are destroying the story. That story is our history."


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    Re: CRAZED COLLECTORS, CRIMINALS: Trafficking US artifacts is a $5-$6 billion busines by Anonymous on Tuesday, 30 December 2008
    tim johns - ray norman talk to them
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      Re: CRAZED COLLECTORS, CRIMINALS: Trafficking US artifacts is a $5-$6 billion busines by bat400 on Friday, 02 January 2009
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      Do you have any additional information about the Lamarr Mounds case or similar incidents? Please sent a private message to bat400.
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