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Multi-periodSite Name: Angel Mounds
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Evansville, Indiana  Nearest Village: Newburgh, Indiana
Latitude: 37.944000N  Longitude: 87.454W
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Angel Mounds
Angel Mounds submitted by bat400 : Angel Mounds Historic Site, Newburgh, Indiana. Middle Mississipian Village. Map from Site website, www.angelmounds.org, by permission. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Angel Mounds Historic Site, off Pollack Avenue, Newburgh, Indiana is a Middle Mississippian village (ca. 1100 - 1450 AD) along the Ohio River. There are earthen flat-topped mounds, indications of protective earthworks, a protective stockade, and burial and building sites on and near mounds.

The only visible remains are the mounds themselves and some indications of earthworks. The site (a farm until 1938) has been kept cleared of most trees to better view the mounds and represent the layout as a Mississipian village. The Visitors Center run by the State of Indiana includes a museum with artifacts and some reconstructions of houses, stockade walls, and other buildings, based on archeological findings of Indiana University excavations. Several of the mounds have never been excavated.
Official Website here or there's an archive of their old site here.

DNA testing settles 70-year mystery over possible conjoined twins buried at ancient Angel Mounds site. This and more in the comments below.

Note: Again highlighting our epic Music Inspired by Prehistoric Sites thread here's the completely 'out there' Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds, Indiana.
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Angel Mounds
Angel Mounds submitted by DocRock : Construction technique of Angel Mounds stockade. DocRock (Vote or comment on this photo)

Angel Mounds - Mound F
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 : A replica of the fluorite statue found buried in Mound F. A statue of a seated man is carved from a single piece of yellow fluorite. It was found buried under the surface of Mound F. It appears to have been placed intentionally in the location. No similar piece of carving has been found elsewhere at Angel, although similar figures have been found at other Mississippian sites. The raw stone... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Angel Mounds Historical Site
Angel Mounds Historical Site submitted by Bat400 : Stiched "annotated" photo of Angel Mounds Historical Site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Angel Mounds - Mound H
Angel Mounds - Mound H submitted by bat400 : Mound H at Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This mound is much reduced by plowing. Like several other mounds it has not been excavated. Photo copyright by bat400, June 2006. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Angel Mounds - Mound E
Angel Mounds - Mound E submitted by bat400 : Mound E - Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana Earthwork Mound. Platform Mound. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Angel mounds - Mound G
Angel mounds - Mound G submitted by bat400 : Mound G - Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana Conical Earthwork Mound from the Woodland period. This mound is part of the Angel property but lies outside the town site and was created by people of the Woodland period, well before the Angel Mounds town was built. Its directly on the city street opposite the entrance to the Angel site.

Angel Mounds - Mound F
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 : Angel Mounds - Mound A, Vanderburgh Co., Indiana. View from the temple mound. This photo shows a view of Mound A, the truncated pyramid, from Mound F. Between them lay a plaza without buildings. This basic layout is common to most Mississippian town or cities. At Angel, the plaza area is crossed by a historic drainage ditch and trees that have grown up along it. Photo copyright ...

Angel Mounds - Mound A
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by bat400 : Mound A, the "Chief's" Mound, at Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This view is from the south west. Stairs have been installed to allow a visitor to climb to the top of the mound while still preventing errosion. The main excavation at Angel was done by Glenn Black in the 1930's and 40's. He felt that differences in vegetation indicated that a wooden stairway had once existed in the ...

Angel Mounds
Angel Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Reconstructed palisade wall (shown on the inside), with bastions and covered in daub, at the Angel Mounds site in Evanston, Indiana. These were very sturdy walls and some were 12-15 feet high and resistant to fire. Hundreds of mound sites and villages were protected this way. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016)...

Angel Mounds
Angel Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Archaeological reconstruction of the Angel Mounds in Evansville, Indiana from the mound encyclopedia @ by Herb Roe. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 

Angel Mounds - Mound A
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Central mound at Angel Mounds in Indiana. A structure was reconstructed on the platform mound according to evidence found during excavations.

Angel Mounds - Mound A
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by AKFisher : 1940 WPA excavation of Angel Mounds in Indiana. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).

Angel Mounds - Mound A
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Archaeological reconstruction of Angel Mounds, Indiana © from the mound encyclopedia. This was a northern outpost of the Cahokia chiefdom. A lot of the site still exists and portions have been reconstructed.

Angel Mounds
Angel Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Old site plan from "Mound Builders..." via archive.org

Angel Mounds Museum
Angel Mounds Museum submitted by symbionspacesuit : Mounds A & G from a illustrated historical map of the surrounding counties.

Angel Mounds - Mound G
Angel Mounds - Mound G submitted by symbionspacesuit : moon set from the top of beehive mound the mourning after summer solstice

Angel Mounds - Mound J
Angel Mounds - Mound J submitted by bat400 : Mound J at Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This mound is much reduced by plowing. Like several other mounds it has not been excavated. Photo copyright by bat400, June 2006.

Angel Mounds - Mound C
Angel Mounds - Mound C submitted by bat400 : Mound C at Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This mound is much reduced by plowing. It was originally a structural mound 5 feet high with a building atop it. (Wattle and daub in large amounts - some post hole impressions.) There was also at one time an interior fence that ran behind this mound in this view. The interior fence was similar to the stockade surrounding the town. Photo c...

Angel Mounds - Mounds K, D, I
Angel Mounds - Mounds K, D, I submitted by bat400 : View from Mound A at Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Southwest of the largest mound in the town, there are three smaller mounds, now identified as K, D, and I. Mound K can just be seen to the right at the foot of the pecan trees. D and I are very slight impressions now after years of plowing in the past. Excavations revealed several burials and the site of a building with a lowered ...

Angel Mounds
Angel Mounds submitted by bat400 : 180 degree stitch of the Angel Town site. From left to right: The rise of the original stockade wall site and Mound L in midground. A properly sized framework of a replica "summer house" is beyond the rise of the mound. Mound B has never been excavated. It is large and low and may be nothing more than spoil or a midden. The Mound A pyramid with its conical earthwork is to the right ... (1 comment)

Angel Mounds Museum
Angel Mounds Museum submitted by bat400 : Angel Mounds Historical Site Museum and Visitor's Center. A view of the exterior. Directly behind the museum building is the footbridge to the large town site. The building includes the museum, gift shop, WCs, and all you'd expect. But in a twist there are meeting rooms and a kitchen you can rent. Have your wedding and reception at a prehistoric site? You can do it!

Angel Mounds - Mound F
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 : Angel Mounds - Mound F. Vanderburgh Co., Indiana. The temple mound. At one time the mound had an ornate high status building on it. Indications are that the building had ritual use. Photo by bat400.

Angel Mounds - Mound A
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by bat400 : Mound A, the "Chief's" Mound, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This is the view you have from the edge of the upper terrace, looking back toward the 2nd most impressive mound in the town, Mound F, the site of a major building, most likely a Temple. Between the two mounds was a wide plaza area, free of buildings, gardens, and seemingly kept swept clean as there are few finds in the "plaza." Ph...

Angel Mounds - Mound A
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by bat400 : Mound A, the "Chief's Mound", Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This a view from the north east side. The lower terrace is to the left, the upper portion to the right. The conical mound on the upper terrace is roughly in the center. Photo by bat400, June 2006.

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Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds by Andy B on Tuesday, 23 March 2021
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A completely 'out-there' piece of music here from Max Syedtollan - performed by himself and Plus Minus Ensemble.

It starts at Angel Mounds - how or why Max got there isn't clear but anyway they take him on a strange adventure - it's basically a tall travel tale so go with it...

https://www.maxsyedtollan.net/Four-Assignments

With slide show including photos of all the mounds
https://vimeo.com/502633327

or listen as part of the 'Dig That Treasure' show on Resonance FM
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/dig-that-treasure-16th-march-2021/


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    Re: Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds by bat400 on Sunday, 04 April 2021
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    It would been thoughtful if he had cited my photos that he used in this video. A majority are from the Portal.
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      Re: Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds by Andy B on Monday, 05 April 2021
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      Oh dear, apologies for not spotting this.
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        Re: Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds by Anonymous on Saturday, 19 June 2021
        The Actual son God and effigy pipe was found in the archaeology basement of a home at 10865 Pollick Ave. the basement was dug out and that’s where six slate graves was taken out during that. The book is that are you displays the historical home where the graves were found
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          Re: Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds by Anonymous on Saturday, 19 June 2021
          At the homesite at 10865 Pollack Ave. there is still more graves underneath the burial ridge at that location that is a historical site which Glenn black laboratories done the original excavating and wrote a book that is at the IU laboratories in documentation of the site dig.
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      Re: Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds by maxsyedtollan on Tuesday, 06 April 2021
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      Hi Bat400 -

      Max here (author of the video) - really sorry for not crediting you, did not mean to cause upset. I put the video together via google image searches and didn't realise they had all come from this site, but you're right it would have been thoughtful to properly cite them as being yours. Would you be happy for me to include a reference in the video description? If so, how would you like to be credited?

      Apologies again, and thank you for the great work you have contributed to the site.

      Best

      Max Syedtollan
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        Re: Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds by bat400 on Sunday, 29 August 2021
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        Max -
        Crediting the Megalithic Portal would do the most good. Thank you.
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IU Glenn A. Black Laboratory to preserve Angel's 'American treasures' by bat400 on Thursday, 11 October 2018
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Research institute receives $300,000 for 'Curating Angel' project to preserve collections from national, state historic site

A new grant from the National Park Service, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts is helping an Indiana University Bloomington center preserve a nationally significant collection of Native American artifacts.

In 1971, IU Bloomington's Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology became home to archaeological collections from the Angel Mounds National Historic Site and State Historic Site. The laboratory is named for archaeologist Glenn A. Black, who started working at Angel Mounds in 1939. Situated along the Ohio River near Evansville, Indiana, Angel Mounds has long been a trove of archaeological evidence and information regarding Native American life from nearly 1,000 years ago, when people known as Mississippians lived there.

The Angel Mounds Collection at the Glenn Black Laboratory comprises 2.8 million objects recovered from 1939 to 1983, including thousands of photographic images, paper records, maps, and material objects made of stone, ceramic, bone, shell, copper and more.

Nearly 50 years of scholarly use has taken its toll on the collection, however, and a lack of resources has limited appropriate curation of the materials. Many of the artifacts are still in non-archival cardboard boxes or brown paper bags used in the field, marked with notes in fading pencil.

Now, though, with more than $300,000 from the federal Save America's Treasures program, the Glenn Black Laboratory will be able to fully address preservation threats to the collection and increase opportunities for research, exhibition, education and collaboration.

"This grant is a first and necessary step addressing long overdue Angel Mounds collections issues," said April Sievert, director of the Glenn Black Laboratory. "For the next three years, we will be rehabilitating and rehousing thousands of boxes of materials. Moving the collection to 21st-century curation and information management systems will ensure the materials will be preserved, enhanced and accessible."

As part of the "Curating Angel" project, nearly 5,000 cubic feet of reboxed and inventoried materials will be transported to a new state-of-the-art climate-controlled auxiliary library facility at IU Bloomington dubbed ALF3. The facility's planning was overseen by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research; the Glenn Black Laboratory is also overseen and supported in part by the office. The project will also create an accessible Angel Mounds comparative collection at the Glenn Black Laboratory.

"The historical significance of the Angel Mounds collection can't be overstated," said Melody Pope, curator of collections at the Glenn Black Laboratory. "Angel Mounds has yielded many clues to understanding change and continuity in Native American culture and society. With the extensive reorganization, documentation and preservation enabled by this grant, we'll ensure that future collections research will be able to draw on the site's rich documentary and archaeological records long into the future."


Source: "News at IU Bloomington" press release.
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DNA testing settles 70-year mystery over possible conjoined twins by bat400 on Thursday, 24 November 2011
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A mystery revealed 70 years ago when archaeologist Glenn A. Black suggested the ancient remains of two infants buried at Southern Indiana's Angel Mounds archaeological site were conjoined twins has been solved through DNA analysis at Indiana University.

When Black and a Works Progress Administration excavation crew in 1941 discovered the unique grave -- two infants buried in a single interment -- the position of the skeletons relative to one another led Black to hypothesize they were conjoined. Even though inspection showed no shared elements of conjoined twinning or fused skeletal elements, Black's field interpretation of the double burial still led him to suspect that the two were flesh-joined twins.

A portion of the East Village of Angel Mounds near Evansville, Ind., under excavation in 1941 by Works Progress Administration workers led by Indiana archaeologist Glenn A. Black. Black proposed that a pair of co-buried infant skeletons excavated at the time were conjoined twins.

"The 'conjoined twins' are well known at the Glenn Black Laboratory (at IU) and also within the Department of Anthropology," said Charla Marshall, an adjunct professor of anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis who received her Ph.D. from IU Bloomington this year. "They are pretty legendary, as such interesting case studies often come to be."

Legendary enough, too, for Marshall to propose a test of Black's hypothesis by using recoverable maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, to compare genotypes of the co-buried infants, which in and of itself was a unique find: Of the 310 mostly adult burial sites discovered at the Middle Mississippian Age (A.D. 1050-1400) village near Evansville, Ind., only 3 to 5 percent contained two or more nearly complete individuals.

Even if the tests showed the remains to be those of ordinary twins, the dual interment was still unique, Marshall noted. Many societies at the time viewed twin births negatively and one or both twins would be killed, while in other Eastern North American societies a twin birth was accorded high status and deaths would have warranted excessive ceremony. This burial, Black noted at the time, was otherwise unremarkable with no adornment and a location in the common burial area at Angel Mounds.

Using an automated DNA sequencing system at the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute at IU Bloomington, the team led by Marshall analyzed the mtDNA of each infant, passed down only through the maternal lines to offspring of both sexes, to determine whether the two infants belonged to the same haplogroup (common ancestors identified through similar DNA sequence variations called single-nucleotide polymorphisms).

Not only were the two infants not twins, and therefore not possibly conjoined, but the two were not even maternal siblings, test results found. One infant belonged to Haplogroup C, an mtDNA lineage believed to have arisen geographically between the Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal about 60,000 years ago, and the other belonged to Haplogroup A, which is thought to have come from Asia between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago.

"In addition to using molecular genetics analysis to shed light on this 70-year-old mystery, we also make one more case in all of the evidence against a requirement for a maternal relationship for co-burial in Midwestern societies," Marshall said.

Co-authors on the findings that appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology were IU Anthropology professors Della Collins Cook and Frederika A. Kaestle, and Patricia A. Tench, an adjunct associate professor at the University of Cincinnati. The research was funded by the Indiana Academy of Science and the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology.


Thanks to coldrum for the link to this Indiana University news release.
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Re: Potter's Workshop found at Angel Mounds by Anonymous on Thursday, 03 November 2011
angel mounds was home to indians many,many years ago.we should be thankful for all they have done ,like they tought us how to plant crops,and made there historical sites very,very beutiful.so I think that we should learn as much as we can while we can about them. You really need to put some facts about the pictures on this site please!
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Scheduled events for May and June 2008 by bat400 on Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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May 6-June 12: IU Field School Archaeological Excavation - Archaeology students will be on hand at Angel Mounds for a little over a month excavating and documenting their finds from a spot thought to be an area on which the massive stockade wall coursed over. Students as well as professors from Indiana University will be answering questions for the general public that come to visit the site. Visitors will be able to watch the excavation in progress on a day-to-day basis.

May 14: Pennsylvania State University Professor George Milner presents Questions Driving Mississippian Research: Past, Present, and Future, part of the Eli Lilly Lecture Series in conjunction with the 70 Years of Discovery Anniversary

May 16: 2nd Annual Archaeology C.S.I. Day - Open to 6th and 7th Grade Math and Science Classes, Archaeology C.S.I. Day offers local students the chance to work on a hands-on basis with the tools, methods, and implementation of archaeology. Call for reservations.

May 21: Middle Tennessee State University Professor Kevin Smith presents Ancient Chiefdoms of the Nashville Basin : Crossroads of the Mississippian World?, part of the Eli Lilly Lecture Series in conjunction with the 70 Years of Discovery Anniversary

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2007 Field School at Angel Mounds by bat400 on Tuesday, 08 May 2007
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Indiana University's Glenn Black Laboratory is once again running a http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/fschool.html">field school in 2007 at Angel.
This year's focus is an excavation of a burned dwelling.
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Lecture at Angel Mounds for Archaeology Month: Staffan Peterson by bat400 on Sunday, 24 September 2006
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Angel Mounds State Historic Site.
September 28, 6pm. Archaeologist Staffan Peterson of the Glenn A, Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, will present a lecture: "Prehistoric Town Design - Recent Findings from the Angel Mounds Site." For further information contact Staffan Peterson at 812-855-9544 or stapeter@indiana.edu
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Angel Mounds Aerial View - The Stockade. by bat400 on Monday, 19 June 2006
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The pointer on the google satellite view lies on the northern limit of the stockade wall. The trace of the stockade can be seen in the aerial view, between the river to the south and Pollack Street to the north.
This stockade formed a semi-circle around the town, running down to the Ohio River on the north-east and south-west limits of the built-up portions of the town. Large fields lay outside the stockade, while some garden plots were kept among the houses inside the stockade.
The stockade was made by digging a trench 2 to 4 feet deep and sinking tree trunks upright into the trench. Thin branches and vines were braided through the trunks. Mud, clay, and vegetation were daubed into the form, and the outer surface was finished with a coating of mud and clay.
It's thought that the stockade was 12 feet high and about 1 foot thick in most places. On the north-east side a natural slough lies just outside the stockade line. There was an opening in the stockade at one point in this area (nearest the modern museum.) A life-size reconstruction of a section of the wall has been built in place.
Glenn Black, the excavator of the site in the late 1930's and early '40's, wrote that as the extent of the stockade and it's structure became clear, the tremendous effort this project had taken seemed to dwarf the building of the mounds themselves. The stockade appears to have gone through a major rebulding effort twice during the period that the town was occupied. There must have been seasonal upkeep to renew the mud exterior.
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2006 Summer Field Season Over: Potter's Workshop by bat400 on Monday, 19 June 2006
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I visited Angel Mounds over the weekend.
The "potter's shop" dig had been closed down on 15 June 06, and the site was recovered with earth. Several of the new finds, including a celt and a lump of raw Fluorite (a trade item from Southern Illinois) are in a display case in the museum lobby at this time.
I will be updating the information on Angel this week with detailed entries on individual mounds.
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Potter's Workshop found at Angel Mounds by Anonymous on Wednesday, 31 May 2006
From the Indianapolis Star; IndyStar.com, May 30, 2006

Ancient pottery operation unearthed,
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"EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- An archaeological dig at southern Indiana's Angel Mounds complex has uncovered a pottery-making operation that reveals the artistic skills of the Indians who lived there hundreds of years ago.

Indiana University researchers believe they've uncovered remains of a potter's house once used by the Indians who inhabited the area overlooking the Ohio River from 1100 to 1450 A.D.

Excavations have revealed pottery tools and masses of prepared but unfired clay awaiting shaping into bowls, jars or figures which suggest that the structure that once stood there was used to make the pottery now found in shards across the site.

"This is the best collection of pottery tools ever found here," Chris Peebles, director of IU's Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, told Evansville Courier & Press.
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Scientists began studying the site last year after [magnetometer] imaging ... showed the remains of more than 100 homes and a stockade wall thousands of feet long in the grassy fields near the site's 10 mounds.

"In terms of the quality ... this is first rate," Peebles said. He and research fellow Staffan Peterson are being assisted on this year's dig by 17 students from eight Midwestern universities.

The students have uncovered dozens of pot shards, as well as bones, disc-shaped pieces of coal and shells.

Researchers also have found evidence of a flint-working operation at the site, where the Middle Mississippian Indians hunted and farmed on the rich bottom lands of the Ohio River.

The Indian community that once thrived at Angel Mounds is renowned among archaeologists for the quality of the pottery left behind there.

Last year, the researchers discovered two deer jawbones that appeared to have been carefully buried within the house, perhaps as part of a consecration ritual."
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    Re: Potter's Workshop found at Angel Mounds by bat400 on Thursday, 01 June 2006
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    I submitted that item from the Indianapolis Star as "News/Article". I certainly thought I was logged on at the time, but maybe not.

    This year's excavation is part of continuing work at Angel Mounds. In recent past years a portion of the Ohio River shoreline was lined with stone to try to prevent further erosion. And one mound on the site was fenced off to prevent looting.
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