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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park Alternative Name: 34 LF 40, Fort Coffee Mounds, Craig Mound, Ward Mounds 1 and 2, Copple MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 32.582 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Plains Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Spiro, OK
Latitude: 35.311900N Longitude: 94.5686W
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Around 1250 the site appears to have transitioned into a ceremonial center. The largest portion of the population left Spiro and moved to already existing villages, at least six, surrounding the site. For the next 150 years the site continued to be used, with burials, offerings and augmentation of the eleven earthen platform mounds and one large burial mound.
Through the 1500's and 1600's the area around Spiro and along the Arkansas River was still populated and thriving, but the culture changed to one that was less hierarchical and less focused on building large mound centers like Spiro. At the time of the deSoto expedition in the 1540'3 this area was under the control of the Caddo, a confederacy of multiple groups with similar languages. The historic Caddo Confederacy, Wichita, Kichai, and non-Caddoan Tunica are thought to have been the descendants of the culture that created the Spiro Mounds and other sites in part of what is now Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Louisiana.
Website: Oklahoma Historical Society
Archaeologists to resume digging at Oklahoma site where prehistoric building found. See comments below.
Note: Lockdown Video Talk: excavations and remote sensing at Spiro Mounds with Dr. Scott Hammerstedt from Oklahoma Archeological Survey, see comments
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