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<< Our Photo Pages >> Oakville Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The South

Submitted by stonetracker on Wednesday, 08 February 2023  Page Views: 380

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Oakville Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 25.951 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Oakville AL
Latitude: 34.441900N  Longitude: 87.17823W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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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
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Oakville Mounds
Oakville Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Burial mound. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/oakville-indian-mounds-park/. Sponsor: University of Alabama. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Oakville Mounds were the heart of a large cultural center that dominated this section of the Moulton Valley along Flint Creek and its tributaries from AD 1 to 500 during the Middle Woodland period. Oakville is one of three sites that features a Middle Woodland platform mound in the Middle Tennessee Valley. Five mounds were reported at Oakville when Gerard Fowke from the Bureau of American Ethnology documented the site in 1926. Since that time, three of the mounds have been completely destroyed through agricultural practices.

The two mounds that remain represent two different types of earthen structures: the 8 meter high square platform mound is one of the largest platform mounds in the state of Alabama, and the other is a smaller 4 meter high conical burial mound. Excavations at other early platform mounds suggest that Oakville’s platform mound was a place where people would come together to hold ceremonies, exchange exotic goods, and renew social ties. The burial mound was built exclusively to inter elite members of the society. In the 1840s, American settlers established the “Old Settler Cemetery” on top of the burial mound.

There is also a museum on the site, known as the Oakville Indian Mounds Education Center. Location coordinates are for the center of the square platform mound.

For more info, see https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/oakville-indian-mounds-park/
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Oakville Mounds
Oakville Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Oakville, Alabama mound museum. They easily had 50 displays like these. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Oakville Mounds
Oakville Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Oakville historical marker on site. Photo credit: Historical Marker Database. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Oakville Mounds
Oakville Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Oakville, Alabama mounds from the Alabama mound book. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Oakville Mounds
Oakville Mounds submitted by stonetracker : The large rectangular platform mound. Photo courtesy of Greg Little author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Oakville Mounds
Oakville Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Flickr image of conical burial mound to the north of the square platform mound, dated 04-2018. There is a historic period cemetery on top of the mound.

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