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Multi-periodSite Name: Mann Site Alternative Name: 12 Po 2
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 5.453 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Evansville, IN  Nearest Village: Mt. Vernon, IN
Latitude: 37.913800N  Longitude: 87.84W
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Multicomponent Earthworks in Posey County, Indiana.
Mann is a large site with twenty or more earthworks in the form of mounds, linear earthworks and enclosures. Dating to 100 and 500 AD, the Mann site has been identified as part of the broader Hopewell Tradition.

Exotic materials (Grizzly Bear teeth, Yellowstone Obsidian) and pottery styles from contemporaneous Middle Woodland Era peoples in Ohio and Northern Georgia indicate trading networks and even population exchanges among the people at Mann and other peoples in the Ohio River Valley, the southeast, and the Missouri River watershed. As most of the Mann site has been under the plow, various artifacts have come to the surface. More have been identified during planned excavations.

In addition to visible earthworks, magnetometer studies have reveal habitation sites and two possible "Woodhenge" sites. There are also some tantalizing clues reported recently of some evidence of lead smelting (although I've found no indication whether this evidence is finished artifacts, furnace evidence, or chemical analysis.)

A portion of the Mann site is now owned by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The rest is still owned by private landowners.

National Register of Historic Places: Site added in 1974.
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Middle Woodland, Paleo-Indian, Middle Mississippian
Period of Significance: 499-0 AD
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Domestic, Funerary
Historic Sub-function: Camp, Graves/Burials
Current Function: Agriculture/Subsistence

Note: The location given is general for the site and does not mark a specific feature. The site is not accessible to the public at this time.

Note: Show of private Hopewell Tradition artifact collection, now in State hands. Little known Hopewell site; largest outside of Ohio.
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The Prehistoric Treasure In The Fields Of Indiana by bat400 on Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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It's 1988. Workers building a road in Mt. Vernon, Ind. damage an ancient burial mound, causing a treasure trove of silver and copper to pour from the ground. A bulldozer operator decides to grab some of the treasure. He ends up in prison for looting.

It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones film, only it's not a movie. The treasure belonged to a mysterious and advanced culture that flourished in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. nearly 2,000 years ago. Because it predates the written record, this prehistoric culture doesn't have a Native American name but in the 1800s, archaeologists dubbed it the Hopewell Tradition.

An exhibit of artifacts from the Hopewell site, curated by the Indiana State Museum and on display at the Angel Mounds State Historic Site in Evansville, Ind. through Jan. 14, is raising some fresh questions about these ancient Americans.

Just a few miles away from where the road workers first discovered their treasure lie fields of cornstalk stubble and gently rolling hills. But they're more than just hills. "What you're seeing here is a complex of earthen structures that were very purposefully and very specifically built along this cultural landscape," says Michele Greenan, an archaeologist and curator at the Indiana State Museum. "There's a number of mounds here — probably 20, maybe even more mounds, earthen architectural features that were built for different purposes," like ceremonies or burial, she says.

The fields are called the Mann Hopewell Site, after the farmer who owned their sprawling 500 acres. Two of site's earthen structures are among the biggest mounds built anywhere by the Hopewell, which was not a tribe so much as a way of life that flourished in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. between about A.D. 100 and 500.

Amateur archaeologist Charlie Lacer began walking the Mann fields in the 1950s, collecting what he found along the way. "You could find stuff that you could not find [on] any other site around here," Lacer says.
Lacer donated 40,000 artifacts to the Indiana State Museum two years ago. Four hundred of those pieces are now on display in nearby Evansville for the first time ever.

The exhibition is titled Cherished Possessions: The Mann Hopewell Legacy of Indiana.

"It's like Vegas ... for archaeologists," says Mike Linderman, who manages state historic sites in western Indiana. Linderman says the Mann Hopewell Site is bigger than its more famous Hopewell counterparts in Ohio, and it's filled with even more exotic materials, like obsidian glass that has been traced to the Yellowstone Valley in Wyoming, and grizzly bear incisor teeth.

"Grizzly bears obviously are not from Indiana, never have been," Linderman says. "There's a theory out there now that instead of being trade items, these items [were] actually being collected by the people from Mann Site on rite-of-passage trips they [were] taking out to the West. "

Jaguars and panthers aren't from Indiana, either, but they show up at the Mann Hopewell Site as beautifully detailed carvings. Put them together with clay figurines that have slanted eyes — not a Hopewell feature — and Linderman says we could be looking at a connection between Indiana and Central or South America.

And that just scratches the surface, so to speak. In 2006, researcher Staffan Peterson did the archaeological version of an MRI scan on 100 acres at the site. Whenever his equipment detected an archaeological feature, a dot showed up on a map.

Two of the most notable features are what Peterson calls "wood henges" — like Stonehenge, but made of wooden posts.

But there may be an even more remarkable discovery — one that could rewrite history books. Linderman says scientists are starting tests on what looks like evidence of lead smelting, a practice that, until now, was only seen in North America after the arrival of the French, 1,000 years after the Hopewell Tradition.

Lead smelting is just one of the many questions archaeologists will

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    Re: The Prehistoric Treasure In The Fields Of Indiana by bat400 on Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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    The first paragraph of this story is a reference to the discovery and looting of the GE Mound.
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Uncommon Ground - Grocery worker, Farm family, Archaeologists make History by bat400 on Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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Wearing his best Stetson hat and khaki pants, Paul Mann Sr. climbed atop an ancient Native American mound on his farmland, television cameras following him. It was the mid-1970s, and Mann’s Posey County farm just had been named to the National Register of Historic Places. As a skeptical TV reporter asked about the relics buried deep underground, Mann glanced down, bent over, and plucked an arrowhead from the soil near his feet.

Mann has passed away. Corn and beans grow every summer, but his farm, tended by descendants, has faded from prominence after attracting archaeological digs and media attention in the ’60s and ’70s. The land and its mysterious history have “sort of been sidelined,” says Staffan Peterson, who researches Southwest Indiana archaeology. “Not many people know anything about it.”

This November, an eclectic group of archaeologists, researchers, Mann’s children, and a retired grocery store employee in his 70s aims to change that. In the highly anticipated exhibition “Cherished Possessions: The Mann Hopewell Legacy of Indiana,” which opens Nov. 6 at Angel Mounds State Historic Site, the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites and the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology will reveal artifacts never before seen by the public.

The family farm is part of a Southwest Indiana phenomenon known as the Mann Site, a 500-acre area with stunning historical significance that rivals the better-known Hopewell sites in Ohio. The site dates back to around 150 to 450 A.D., and was a place of burial, civic proceedings, ceremony, and habitation. Archaeologists have uncovered a cosmopolitan array of artifacts: jaguar carvings, obsidian from Wyoming, copper from northern Michigan, hundreds of human figurine fragments, and pottery that has a striking connection to a site in Georgia. “It probably is the most important site in Indiana,” says Mike Linderman, site manager at Angel Mounds State Historic Site, “if not the entire Midwest.”

Back when Charles Lacer Jr. of Evansville first explored the Mann Site, making history was the furthest thing from his mind. As a young boy, he tagged along on fishing trips with his father. “I wasn’t that interested in fishing,” says Lacer, now 75, “so I’d just go back in the fields and start walking.”

Soon, Lacer’s pockets sagged with arrowheads and other finds. On his first visit to the Mann farm, Lacer walked along a gravel road and found a small crystal quartz knife. He kept returning, and one day, he spotted Paul Mann Sr. riding a combine through the fields. Lacer had no permission to be on the property, but Mann didn’t shout or shoot. Instead, he pulled up next to Lacer, held out a jug of cold water, and asked, “You wouldn’t be thirsty, would you?”

Lacer became a frequent visitor to the family farm, combing the land for artifacts that rose to the surface when Mann plowed the fields. He befriended the farmer’s five children, and daughters Carolyn West and Susan Boyer, now 62 and 63, remember how Lacer brought them bottles of Coca-Cola and gave the family baskets of fruit for Christmas.

Lacer is the kind of man who catalogues his world in lists and files that exist on paper and inside his quick mind. He rattles off milestones in his life (first archaeological site explored, 1949; first visit to the Mann Site, 1950; first archaeologist met, IU’s James Kellar, 1964). He still has the first arrowhead he ever found (1949, age 14, in the river bottoms near the old Dogtown Tavern). It’s his dogged determination to create order and chronicle history, say several Indiana archaeologists, that has made him one of the most important figures in the Mann Site’s exploration. Lacer is what professionals call an avocational archaeologist — a non-professional who makes valuable contributions to the field. (“You can go to almost any book (on Hopewell culture) by any academic archaeologist,” says Michele Greenan, director of archaeology at the Indiana State Museum in Ind

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