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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 Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 47.205 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
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Craig Mound (aka Spiro Mound) Taken at the Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center. Image copyright: imarcc (Marc Carlson), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Mounds and ancient town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma. The site was first occupied around AD800 and in the next 400 years developed into a town with the characteristics of the Missippian Culture, including large earthen mounds surrounding central plazas and residential sites.

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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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Spiro Mounds Artifact Image copyright: gmeador (Granger Meador), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Copper artifact from Spiro Mounds Image copyright: tobeyruth (Ruth Tobey), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Woolaroc Spiro Mounds artifacts Spiro mound artifacts on display at Woolaroc Museum, near Bartlesville. Image copyright: imarcc (Marc Carlson), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Dugout canoe
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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Spiro mound artifacts on display at Woolaroc Museum, near Bartlesville. Image copyright: imarcc (Marc Carlson), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : Spiro, Oklahoma's Craig Mound in 1913, prior to its near decimation with a steamshovel. As thousands of artifacts were removed, they were sold on the street. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : Portion of an engraved shell excavated from the Spiro., Oklahoma mounds. The image depicted on the shell is shown on the bottom. The "objects" from the mouths represent the "Free Soul." Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : Engraved shell excavated from the Spiro., Oklahoma mounds. This shell is just under 11" in length. The image depicted on the shell is shown on the right. These are images of the "forked eye," which might represent the "ogee" at the split in the Milky Way where Cygnus & the star Deneb represented a judge and portal out of the sky world. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Ency...

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : The genuine stone pipe known as "Big Boy" that was one of dozens of well made pipes excavated from the Spiro, Oklahoma mounds. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : Small (4-inch tall) stone figurine excavated from the Spiro, Oklahoma mounds. The wires across the shoulders are used to hold the object for display. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : Pipe excavated from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma in the early 1940s. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. This is that mound that in the 1930s a company used a steam shovel to pull out artifacts and immediately sell on the street. Hundreds of exquisite artifacts were sold to the public and countless others were destroyed in the process. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Entrance to the mound trail at Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma: Me (left); @AndrewBCollins (right).

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : P6140122 Image copyright: peggydavis66, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Copple Mound @ Spiro Mounds, 2014 Image copyright: Leon Bordeaux, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Image copyright: peggydavis66, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Shell artifacts in Spiro Mound Museum Image copyright: peggydavis66, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Copper plate ornaments, Spiro Mound, Oklahoma Image copyright: peggydavis66, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Copper plate ornamentsImage copyright: peggydavis66, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr : Image copyright: peggydavis66, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park
Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park submitted by Flickr

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Video Talk: excavations and remote sensing at Spiro Mounds with Dr. Scott Hammerstedt by Andy B on Wednesday, 01 July 2020
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Dr. Scott Hammerstedt with the Oklahoma Archeological Survey provides an overview of the excavations and remote sensing at the Spiro Mounds.
Recorded for Ft Bend Archeological Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQjwgffdv8&feature=youtu.be

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Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park by Andy B on Monday, 24 December 2018
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Archaeologists digging at Oklahoma site where prehistoric building f by bat400 on Friday, 11 April 2014
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Archaeologists will return to an ancient Native American site in eastern Oklahoma next month to resume excavation, after they discovered a prehistoric building there last October.

Few artifacts have been discovered near the formation — which measures just about 12 feet across — at Spiro Mounds making it difficult for researchers to determine the time period of the building, said Scott Hammerstedt, a researcher at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey.

"It's a building. A prehistoric building, a fairly faint one — but one nonetheless," he said.

Researchers will head back to excavate a handful of other areas during five weeks of fieldwork in May and June, Hammerstedt said.

The formation was one of about 70 that researchers discovered using remote sensing technology. A creek is eroding a handful of them, so the archaeologists with the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey, the Arkansas Archaeological Survey and the University of Oklahoma's Department of Anthropology will excavate them. The researchers entered into an excavation agreement with the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which owns the site, the Oklahoma Historical Society, which manages it, and the Caddo Nation and Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, whose ancestors inhabited the site, for the excavation work. The Corps purchased most of the mound area in the 1960s to create a national archeological park, which never was created, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.

"We're trying to get tribal members involved in the research team and have them come out and help excavate," Hammerstedt said. "We've been doing public presentations, things like that. That's what is exciting to us — some of the interaction and communication between archaeologists and the tribes, which isn't always the case."

Spiro Mounds is located about seven miles outside of Spiro. It became a permanent settlement around AD 800 and was used until about 1450, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society. In the 1930s, commercial and academic excavations revealed a large collection of Native American artifacts, many of which were looted from the site.

"Almost all of what we know about Spiro comes from excavation of the Craig Mound in the 1930s — both by looters and by professional archaeologists. And we know next to nothing about what's happening in other parts of the site and around it, and so we're just sort of shifting focus away from mounds into the rest," Hammerstedt said.
He said the current research work is the first excavation work at the site since 1982.

Gary McAdams, cultural program planner for the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, said the formation uncovered is interesting because researchers didn't previously know anything was there.
McAdams said the tribe hopes some of its members will take part in the excavation work in May and June at the site.

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