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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound

Latitude: 31.468420N  Longitude: 84.92758W
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Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by dodomad : Temple Mound by Kevin J. Norman The eight visible mounds of earth in the park were built between 250-950 A.D. by Swift Creek and Weeden Island Indians. American Indians occupied the lands from 350 to 750 A.D. These mounds include Georgia's oldest great temple mound, two burial mounds and four smaller ceremonial mounds. The park's museum is built with part of an excavated mound inside, providi... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mounds in Georgia. Kolomoki Mounds State Historic Park is an important archaeological site as well as a scenic recreational area. Kolomoki, covering some three hundred acres, is one of the larger preserved mound sites in the USA. Hundreds of years ago, Kolomoki, with its surrounding villages, burial mounds, and ceremonial plaza, was a center of population and activity in North America.

Visible mounds of earth in the park were built between 250-950 A.D. by Swift Creek and Weeden Island Indians. American Indians occupied the lands from 350 to 750 A.D. These mounds include Georgia's oldest great temple mound, two burial mounds and four smaller ceremonial mounds. The park's museum is built with part of an excavated mound inside, providing an unusual setting for viewing artifacts and a film about how the mound was built and excavated. Astronomical alignments have been noted for several mounds at the Kolomoki site. Mounds A, D, and E which form the central axis of the site form an alignment with the sun at the spring equinox. Mounds F and D form an alignment with the sun at the summer solstice.

The Kolomoki Mounds are Woodland Period mounds built in Early County, Georgia. The mounds were named a National Historic Landmark in 1964.

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Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by AKFisher : Painting in the Kolomoki, Georgia mounds museum depicting the steep, 55 foot high temple mound there. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by AKFisher : There are 7 mounds at the Kolomoki, Georgia mound complex, which is a park. A portion of a large burial mound, in the late 1980s, was excavated and a museum built into it. Many massive stones were pulled from the mound, which are shown by the museum. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by AKFisher : Temple mound at the Kolomoki, Georgia mound site. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by AKFisher : Kolomoki Mounds Museum in Georgia, photo in 1985: There were 8 mounds at the site, which was constructed 250 -- 600 AD and the population then is thought to have been at least 2000. The photo shows the museum, which was made over an excavated mound. The rocks were used in the mound's construction. The museum was burglarized in 1974 and 129 genuine artifacts were stolen, which has happened at man... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by AKFisher : Photo credit Gregory L. Little, Ed.D. Main platform mound at the Kolomoki, Georgia mound complex in the 1980s. It is 57 feet tall and has a square base of 300 feet. Today the trees are removed. The site was made and inhabited from AD 250-1200. There were 7 platform mounds and several burial mounds there, and an excavation into one burial mound removed 77 burials and over 60 intact pottery vesse...

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by Flickr : 8558 Mound F- Kolomoki Mounds Historic State Park, 205 Indian Mound Road, Blakely, Early, GA. April 24, 2013. "Mound F Ceremonial Platform" "Archaeologist William Sears reported that Mound F measured 60 feet long by 50 feet wide and 6 feet high with a slightly oval shape. He excavated the mound in 1952. Inside the mound he found a platform made of a thin white clay layer over black loam ...

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by Flickr : 8569 Temple Mound- Kolomoki Mounds Historic State Park, 205 Indian Mound Road, Blakely, Early, GA. April 24, 2013. "Temple Mound a Hard Nut to Crack" "You are looking at the great temple mound, Mound A. It measure 325 by 200 feet at the base, or about the size of a football field. It is approximately 56.6 feet high. It would take almost 11.5 million one-gallon buckets full of dirt to bui...

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by Flickr : 8566 Mound D- Kolomoki Mounds Historic State Park, 205 Indian Mound Road, Blakely, Early, GA. April 24, 2013. "Mound D The Most Elaborate Mound" "Excavated in 1949, Mound D is the second largest mound in the Kolomoki complex. Temple mound is the largest. Twenty feet high and one hundred feet in diameter, the mound was constructed in phases. The original mound consisted of five log-lined ...

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by Flickr : 8577 Mound B- Kolomoki Mounds Historic State Park, 205 Indian Mound Road, Blakely, Early, GA. April 24, 2013. "Mound B The Most unusual Mound" "Archaeologist William Sears began excavations at Mound B in 1949. Sears cut a trench in the mound that was expanded in 1952 'without any positive results.' He then decided to strip the mound and make additional cuts to make cross-sections. Origin...

Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park
Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park submitted by durhamnature : Old map of Kolomoki and nearby mounds, from "Prehistoric America" via archive.org

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Kolomoki Street View by Andy B on Sunday, 05 December 2010
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An introduction to Cahokia and Kolomoki National Historic Landmarks by Andy B on Monday, 29 November 2010
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November is Native American Heritage Month. Today we travel to southern Illinois, where just across the Mississippi River is located the Cahokia Archaeological Zone. Cahokia was the largest known Native American city north of Mexico. At its peak population around 1250 AD, it was larger that London, England. Of course, Cahokia was not its real name. No one knows its real name. Unlike the ancient towns in the Southeast, where direct descendants of the original occupants still live, no one even knows yet what happened to the population of Cahokia, after it was abandoned.

There was an indigenous village in the vicinity of Cahokia as early as 600 AD. Around 800 AD, newcomers arrived and introduced large scale agriculture and different styles of artifacts. They built few mounds. The mounds they did build were relatively small. The village was also rather modest in size until around 1100 AD, when the population exploded. The original village was razed and a new grand plaza was constructed nearby that included the beginnings of many new, large mounds.

During the 1980s archaeologists working at Cahokia discovered a circle of postholes some distance away from the main acropolis. The postholes were far too spread apart to be a ruins of a building. The archaeologists eventually decided that the posts functioned as a solar observatory . . . a sun dial. Since the circle of posts seemed have the function as Stonehenge in England, it was labeled “Wood-henge.”

In the years, since several more woodhenges have been discovered at Cahokia. Archaeologists have also found substantial evidence that when posts rotted in these woodhenges, they were replaced. Journalists writing articles on Cahokia were somehow given the impression that Cahokia was the only location in North America where woodhenges had been discovered. They had the same impression about the “keyhole” houses that suddenly appeared in southern Illinois at the time of Cahokia’s founding. The journalists dutifully put out articles stating this. Subsequently, the assumed facts were included in books on Cahokia by non-archaeologists. Now such statements are a standard feature of the many web sites that discuss Cahokia.

As was discussed in the previous Examiner on the stone circles of Alberta Province, Canada, the use of boulders, stones or timbers to create observatories did not begin at Cahokia. In fact, one Canadian “stonehenge” has been definitively dated to being older that the “real” Stonehenge in England. It was constructed around 3000 BC. See:

http://www.examiner.com/architecture-design-in-national/who-built-the-ancient-stone-architecture-of-canada-and-new-england-part-2

While the archaeologists at Cahokia were getting great media coverage due to their proximity to several major Midwestern cities, a smaller archaeological team with significantly less financial support was making major discoveries at Kolomoki National Historic Landmark deep in the southwestern corner of Georgia. Kolomoki is a large site, but much smaller than Cahokia. The word means “Smoke Rings” in the Hitchiti Creek language, and is derived from the name of a Creek Indian town that existed there when Europeans were arriving in the region. Kolomoki was founded around 0 AD and was abandoned for a few centuries by 600 AD. The occupants built at least seven mounds. The largest temple mound is larger than any at Cahokia, except Monks Mound. However, most of these mounds were begun a thousand years before those at Cahokia.

The Kolomoki archaeologists discovered many “key hole” houses in Kolomoki, but they are extremely rare elsewhere in the region. They also discovered a woodhenge near the largest mound at Kolomoki, that previously had been assumed to be a small mound. The difference about these structures is

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    Canadian stone calendar? by bat400 on Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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    For more information on the Majorville Medicine Wheel or "Canada's Stonehenge" mentioned in Richard Thornton's linked examiner article, see the Megalithic Portal's site listing.
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