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<< Our Photo Pages >> Angel Mounds - Mound F - Pyramid / Mastaba in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

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Multi-periodSite Name: Angel Mounds - Mound F Alternative Name: Temple Mound
Country: 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
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
3 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
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Angel Mounds - Mound F
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 : Angel Mounds - Mound A, Vanderburgh Co., Indiana. View from the temple mound. This photo shows a view of Mound A, the truncated pyramid, from Mound F. Between them lay a plaza without buildings. This basic layout is common to most Mississippian town or cities. At Angel, the plaza area is crossed by a historic drainage ditch and trees that have grown up along it. Photo copyright ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Pyramid in Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
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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Angel Mounds - Mound F
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 : A replica of the fluorite statue found buried in Mound F. A statue of a seated man is carved from a single piece of yellow fluorite. It was found buried under the surface of Mound F. It appears to have been placed intentionally in the location. No similar piece of carving has been found elsewhere at Angel, although similar figures have been found at other Mississippian sites. The raw stone... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Angel Mounds - Mound F
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 : Angel Mounds - Mound F. Vanderburgh Co., Indiana. The temple mound. At one time the mound had an ornate high status building on it. Indications are that the building had ritual use. Photo by bat400. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Angel Mounds - Mound F by bat400 on Tuesday, 27 June 2006
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[Information for this site and others at Angel Mounds contains information from the Angel Mounds museum and from the guide book: "The Inquiring Visitor's Guide to Angel Mounds State Historical Site," by Marjorie Melvin Jones and Besse Freeman LaBuddle, Copywrite 1994, 1996, and 2000.]
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