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Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 23 April 2017  Page Views: 3275

MuseumsSite Name: Tennessee State Museum
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Nashville, TN
Latitude: 36.165000N  Longitude: 86.782W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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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.)

Tennessee State Museum
Tennessee State Museum submitted by bat400 : Shell Gorget with woodpecker images. Photo by bat400, taken in 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Davidson County, Tennessee.
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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Tennessee State Museum
Tennessee State Museum submitted by bat400 : Tennessee State Museum. Mississippian era effigy jar, described as a "monster". I'm unaware of 2D depictions of such beasts in what's known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex art styles. Photo by bat400 July 2006. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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