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Multi-periodSite Name: Ocmulgee National Monument
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 59.841 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Macon, GA
Latitude: 32.842600N  Longitude: 83.6036W
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Ocmulgee National Monument
Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument - 01 Entrance to Earthlodge (reconstructed) Image copyright: catherdr, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient City in Bibb County, Georgia. Occupation of the area predates the building of the mounds, which date back to 900-1100 AD, and are identified as part of the Macon Plateau Culture. There are seven mounds and associated plazas visible at the site. The largest is a 56 foot high, flat topped, pyramidal mound known as the Great Temple Mound.

As is was built along the edge of the plateau (terraced and back filled,) people approaching from river would have seen what appears to be a single, massive 90 foot tall structure with important buildings on its heights.

Other mounds include a burial mound and earth lodges, one of which has been recreated using the evidence of the excavation, including a raised "eagle shaped" platform, hearth, and seating. The town surrounding the mound area was substantial, probably one of the largest cities of the time period in what is now the south eastern United States.

Although the mound center declined, the area was still populated. Around 1350 AD a village and several mounds just downstream from Ocmulgee was the center of the Lamarr Phase.

In the 1600's the northern Georgia and Alabama Muskogean-speaking peoples living on the Macon Plateau visited the mound sites as a sacred area. In general these people were called "The Creeks" by the English, who established a fort and trading post they called "Ocmulgee Town".

Only a small area of the known pre-historic sites are within the boundaries of the modern park. Development in the Macon area continues to cover the remains of ancient farmsteads, terraces, and other sites. These structures were more obvious to English colonists: 1774, William Bartram. "On the heights of these low grounds are yet visible monuments, or traces, of an ancient town, such as artificial mounts or terraces, squares and banks, encircling considerable areas. Their old fields and planting land extend up and down the river, fifteen or twenty miles from this site. .... this place is remarkable for being the first town or settlement, when [the Creeks] sat down (as they term it,) after their emigration ..."

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Ocmulgee National Monument
Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Earth Lodge Ocmulgee National Monument - Georgia Image copyright: Brandon Westerman WNP (Brandon Westerman), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by AKFisher : Ocmulgee Mounds at Macon, Georgia--site map by the National Park Service. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by AKFisher : National Park Service depiction of a small temple mound at the Ocmulgee, Georgia mound complex. Image courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by AKFisher : National Park Service illustration of a Mortuary Temple Mound at Ocmulgee, Georgia. Image courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument Museum Image copyright: peachy92 (Shawn Latta), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : View of Macon from Great Temple Mound _MG_8896 (See 100% crop in note.) farm3.static.flickr.com/2173/2308741922_eb2f0a8639_o.jpg Image copyright: lopho (Phillip Lovell), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee Poster, for the USF and Southeast Archeological Center 3D Documentation Project at Ocmulgee National Park Image copyright: Lori D. Collins (Lori Collins), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Earthlodge, Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia Ocmulgee National Monument preserves traces of over ten millennia of Southeastern Native American culture, including major earthworks built more than 1,000 years ago by the South Appalachian Mississippian culture (a regional variation of the Mississippian culture.) These include the Great Temple and other ceremonial mounds, a burial mound, and...

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument Macon, Georgia Image copyright: Adrian P., hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument Image copyright: Matti Amnell (Matti Amnell), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument Image copyright: David in the Lowcountry, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee Indian Heritage Festival Image copyright: Keefer305 - Keith Loyd Photography (keith loyd), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument, Bibb County (Ga.), 28 December 2001 Ocmulgee National Monument near Macon in Bibb County, Georgia, preserves a significant American Indian archaeological site. This snapshot was taken on Friday, 28 December 2001. Image copyright: milanite, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : great temple mound, ocmulgee national monument, bibb county, georgia 1 The Great Temple Mound is one of the largest mounds in the region. For more information: www.nps.gov/ocmu/ www.nps.gov/PWR/customcf/apps/maps/showmap.cfm?alphacode=... National Monument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocmulgee_National_Monument Image copyright: Alan Cressler (Alan Cressler), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the ...

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee Museum Image copyright: idyllopus, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (1 comment)

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument Temple mounds on an area used during 12000 years before the arrival of the Europeans... long time abandoned and almost forgotten when the locals had to go west and excavated and transformed in museum during the Great Depression. Image copyright: TEIX2007, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee Sacred Burial Grounds Image copyright: BeefyBrian, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee NHS, Ga Funeral Mound. Image copyright: Peter Musolino (Peter Musolino), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee NHS, Ga Explanatory plaque. Image copyright: Peter Musolino (Peter Musolino), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Ocmulgee National Monument - looking down from a mound Macon, GA Image copyright: speckerj (jenny specker), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by Flickr : Earthlodge Interior Excavated in 1934, the floor of this ceremonial earth lodge was dated to 1050 CE. 47 molded seats for chieftains or priests move out from a effigy of a eagle common in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, with the seats becoming lower the further from the effigy. In the center is a hearth. Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia Image copyright: www78 (Wayne Hsieh), ho...

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Ocmulgee National Monument submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "Prehistoric America; The Mound Builders" via archive.org

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Re: Ocmulgee National Monument by CatHerdr on Thursday, 27 February 2014
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The trading center is thought to have started to decline for unknown reasons about 1000 CE. There is some speculation that a natural disaster along the East coast of what is now the United States wiped out the yapon holly plants that were a major trade item. There is geologic evidence of a tsunami. Also written records in the UK support a tsunami occurrence about that time.

Yapon holly (ilex vomitus) was the only native plant in this area if North America that contains caffeine. It was used to make the ritual "black drink".
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Archaeoastronomy of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge by Andy B on Wednesday, 19 February 2014
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The earth lodge at the Ocmulgee Mounds site in Macon, Georgia is a unique building among Native American archaeological sites in the Southeast. It is a round building completely covered with earth except for a smoke hole in the center of the roof to allow smoke to escape from the central fire pit below. Entry into the earth lodge was from the east through a low, long, tunnel-like, earth-covered corridor. One would have to crouch or crawl until he reached the central, round chamber before he could stand fully erect again.

Was the Ocmulgee earth lodge an astronomical observatory and sophisticated scientific apparatus designed to forewarn its designers of impending catastrophe coming from the heavens?

More at
http://lostworlds.org/archaeoastronomy-ocmulgee-earth-lodge/
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More early dwellings at Ocmulgee monument site, archaeologist finds by bat400 on Sunday, 20 February 2011
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An ancient civilization of mound builders who lived near the Ocmulgee River just northeast of what is now downtown Macon may have been home to more native people than originally thought.

Though the research, much of it done with a ground-scanning instrument to roughly map underground shapes and forms, is still under way, early analysis seems to indicate more unearthed dwellings at the site than were previously known to have existed.

Dan Bigman, an archaeologist and doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia, has charted 25 or so acres of the Ocmulgee National Monument grounds since the summer.

Passing back and forth across grid sections while holding a 5-foot-wide sensor, Bigman and his assistants have made underground scans without disturbing the surface.

“It seems like we are seeing (evidence of) a lot more structures ... than I expected,” Bigman said Monday. “I was pretty blown away.”

He plans to wrap up his survey later this week with hopes of returning later with other ground-scanning equipment to further verify and, perhaps, enhance the imaging data he has already gathered.

He said a major excavation of the site in the 1930s examined just 17 percent of the property. Bigman’s scans have covered much more area of what is considered one of the largest native Mississippian-period settlements in the eastern U.S. The Macon mounds date back about 1,000 years.
“The things that we’re seeing mostly are house structures, house walls.”

The scanning device he uses can also detect long-buried fire pits or hearths, other signs of early dwellings. Once it is determined how densely populated spots are, Bigman said, “You can start looking at questions like what was the social structure, how was the community organized?”

Bigman said the area has “a very complicated occupational history,” which includes Creek occupation in the late 1600s, [and] the Mississippian culture seven or so centuries earlier.

“Was it continuous occupation or was there space between communities?” Bigman wonders. “How did people identify themselves? Were they part of a larger town or did they have sort of like neighborhoods they were affiliated with?”

“From the excavations done in the ’30s, we know that they were square (dwellings), we know they were rectangular and we know the range of the sizes that they were. So you can go back and say, ‘Look, here’s a square that’s within the range,’ ” he said of deciphering what the data suggests to help in determining the distribution of people and how large their communities were.

“We just know so little about the site,” Bigman said, “and some of the basic things that you need to answer archaeological questions about communities or about political systems or about how people lived or organized themselves spatially or socially or economically.”

Such questions can be answered or best-guessed, he said, “If we know where they lived.”

“But until I work out the chronology, it’s going to be difficult to say. I can say where the people were, but the question is when,” Bigman said.



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