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Multi-periodSite Name: Angel Mounds - Mound F Alternative Name: Temple MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 13.933 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Evansville, Indiana Nearest Village: Newburgh, Indiana
Latitude: 37.940000N Longitude: 87.4595W
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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 |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Earthwork Pyramid; Burial Mound; Temple site.
The mound is a truncated pyramid. At the base the length is 132 feet long by 112 feet wide and 13 feet high. This mound was completely excavated, down to the ground surface. The structure seen now is a rebuild replica of the original, but it is recognized as being slightly inaccurate to the original's final orientation. That orientation was the same as that of Mound A - the large pyramid mound - with the longer axis at N 22 E.
The mound was built in several stages, originally over an area that had small houses. The excavations revealed the imprint and debris of a two room building 66 feet by 33 feet, surrounded by a screening wall or palisade. The larger of the two rooms had a hearth and built up clay benches or risers, still with surfaces glossy from use when excavated. The floor was paved with fossils. A sunken square in one corner seemed to have been covered or shielded by a wattle and daub awning or screens. Carbon 14 dating indicated the building's use dates at or near 1330 to 1415 AD.
At a somewhat later date the building was burnt and demolished, and an additional 8 feet of earth packed on the mound top. Bone bundle burials had been made in the north east side of the mound. A statue of a seated man was buried facing the conical mound on the central pyramid of Mound A. The stature was carved from a single piece of yellow fluorite, a stone imported from central Illinois. With the orientations of the mounds this small figure would have faced the rising sun as it came up "behind" the conical mound at the summer solstice.
If the fading historic Mississippian cultures of further south are similar to that of the prehistoric Angel Mounds, this mound and its building were used as a temple, where only an elite group would meet and perform ritual. It may have been used to house treasure or important items. It may have served as a charnel house for bundled burials.
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