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MuseumsSite Name: Tennessee State MuseumCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 0.221 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Nashville, TN
Latitude: 36.165000N Longitude: 86.782W
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
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bat400 visited on 1st Jan 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 The section on "the First Tennesseans" takes up only a portion of this downtown city museum. The bulk of the artifacts on display are from the Vanderbilt University collection of Gates Thurston (1835-1912.)
From the museum's website and the permanent exhibit, "The First Tennesseans":
"Prehistoric Indian cultures existed in Tennessee through four evolving periods, beginning about 15,000 years ago, peaking between 800 and 1650 A.D. with the Mississippian people, and ending with the ascendancy of such modern tribes as the Cherokee and Chickasaw.
"A mastodon from Paleolithic periodArtifacts from the Paleolithic, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods are on exhibit. The museum even has a display of bones from a mastodon that roamed Tennessee 10,000 years ago.
"Other artifacts of note include:
"* A steatite shaman’s medicine tube;
"* Thruston and Hutcherson pictographs, two of the most important discoveries of late prehistoric politico-religious art found in Tennessee; and
"* Dover flint mace that was a symbol of power for a Mississippian leader some 500-700 years ago."
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