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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pharr Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 20.067 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Tupelo, MS
Latitude: 34.468900N  Longitude: 88.4171W
Condition:
5Perfect
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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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 5 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
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Pharr
Pharr submitted by bat400 : Panorama of all the mounds visible from the ridge of the Natchez Trace, overlooking the site. Photo by bat400, October 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Burial Mounds in Itawamba and Prentiss County, Mississippi.
The mounds are scattered over 90 acres and the burial ground is considered one of the largest and most important of its type. It is also one of the most picturesque ancient sites along the Natchez Trace.

Eight domed burial mounds, several being as high as 18 feet, and the largest being 165 feet in diameter. They are identified as part of the "Miller culture" (1 and 200 AD) of the broader Middle Woodland period. Four of the mounds were partially excavated in the mid 1960's (and were later reconstructed to their original size and shape.)

Excavations discovered human remains, some cremated. The mounds were originally build over clay floored fire pits. Grave goods included non-local materials, including objects of carved green stone, galena, and mica, and copper earspools.

The site is on the Natchez Trace Parkway. It is signposted and has interpretive signage on site.

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Pharr Mounds
Pharr Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Pharr Mounds in Mississippi. There are 8 mounds on 90 acres. The mounds were constructed in AD 1-200. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Pharr Mounds by Andy B on Friday, 01 November 2019
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This site complex consists of eight burial mounds built during the Middle Woodland period, between 1 and 200 A.D. Ranging in height from two to 18 feet, the mounds are distributed over an area of about 85 acres. They comprise one of the largest Middle Woodland ceremonial sites in the southeastern United States. Four of the mounds were excavated in 1966 by the National Park Service. The mounds covered various internal features, including fire pits and low, clay platforms. Cremated and unburned human remains were found in and near these features, as were various ceremonial artifacts, including copper spools and other copper objects, decorated ceramic vessels, lumps of galena (shiny lead ore), a sheet of mica, and a greenstone platform pipe. The copper, galena, mica and greenstone did not originate in Mississippi; they were imported long distances through extensive trade networks. Such ritually significant nonlocal items typify the Middle Woodland period.

Pharr Mounds are located on the Natchez Trace Parkway (milepost 286.7), about 23 miles northeast of Tupelo, Mississippi. Open to the public daily dawn to dusk, free of charge. Call 662-680-4025 for further information.

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