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<< Other Photo Pages >> Hamilton Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The South

Submitted by stonetracker on Sunday, 12 February 2023  Page Views: 999

Multi-periodSite Name: Hamilton Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 35.781 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Hamilton AL
Latitude: 34.100330N  Longitude: 87.98281W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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Hamilton Mounds
Hamilton Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Closer view of one of the Hamilton Mounds. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/hamilton-mound/ Sponsor: University of Alabama (Vote or comment on this photo)
The cluster of three mounds known as the Hamilton Mounds site is the largest indigenous mound site in Marion County, Alabama. The site includes three mounds along the left bank of the Buttahatchee River: a large mound (Mound A) with a two tiered summit, another smaller two tiered mound (Mound C) and a yet smaller mound (Mound B) situated between the two. The mounds’ major occupation occurred during the Mississippian Stage (AD 1250 – 1500) when such monumental sites served as both residential and cultural centers where people in the surrounding river valleys could come together.

The pottery and other artifact styles found here were culturally tied to the massive Mississippian mound complex of Moundville, located about twenty miles south of present-day Tuscaloosa.

The major occupation of the site likely dates to around AD 1250, when sites like Lubbub Creek and the Kellog site were large busy villages downstream along the Tombigbee and smaller farmsteads like the Tibbee Creek site dotted the surrounding floodplains. Some of these sites were fortified, with protective encircling palisade walls, while others were not. Agriculture was a major part of the lives of the Mississippian peoples who lived in the Southeast and those who built the Hamilton Mounds likely relied heavily on growing corn, beans, and squash in the rich bottomlands of the Buttahatchee River.

Location coordinates are for Mound A.

For more info, see https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/hamilton-mound
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Hamilton Mounds
Hamilton Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Buttahatchee Mounds, AKA Chickasaw Mounds at Hamilton, Alabama. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hamilton Mounds
Hamilton Mounds submitted by stonetracker : One of the Hamilton Mounds. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/hamilton-mound/ Sponsor: University of Alabama (Vote or comment on this photo)

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