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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Mangum Mound Alternative Name: 22 CB 584, Mangum Mound Site, Magnum MoundCountry: United States
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Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Vicksburg, MS Nearest Village: Port Gibson, MS
Latitude: 31.992520N Longitude: 90.89948W
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Grave goods found during the excavations included chunky stones and pieces of repoussé copper plate. It is located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway. The site was used as a burial mound during the Foster Phase of the culture (1350 to 1500 CE) and is believed to have been abandoned before the 1540 expedition of Hernando de Soto.[2]
The burial mound was first investigated in 1936 by its owner Spurgeon C. Mangum, a farmer. Mangum found human remains, various pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture, chunkey stones, and three very rare fragments of a repoussé copper plate with an avian design similar to other plates found throughout the American Midwest and Southeast. These portray the Birdman motif important to the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC).[3] The site underwent a series of test excavations in April 1951 as part of the Natchez Trace Park Survey.[3] During these excavations, twelve extended burials and possibly one bundled burial were found.[4]
The site was excavated in 1963 for the National Park Service by archaeologist Charles F. Bohannon. Bohannon and his team found the burials of numerous individuals. One individual, believed to have been a woman in her late 30s, possessed markings on her bones which suggested to investigators that she suffered from multiple myeloma.[5] Bohannon excavated the remains of eighty-four individuals, of which more than half were bundled burials. Some of the bundles seemed little more than disarticulated piles of bones, and Bohannon came to believe they were earlier burials that had been moved to make way for new extended burials. Another copper plate was also found during these excavations.[4]. Source: Wikipedia - See below link.
References:
1. Mangum Mound Natchez Trace. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
2. R. C. Bildart (March 1996). Natchez Trace. Farcountry Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-56037-092-5.
3. Cotter, John L. (July 1952). "The Mangum Plate". American Antiquity. 18 (1): 65–68. doi:10.2307/276247. JSTOR 276247.
4. Galloway, Patricia (1995). Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 (Indians of the Southeast). University of Nebraska Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-8032-7070-1.
5. Morse, Dan F.; Dailey, R. C.; Bunn, Jennings (1974). "Prehistoric multiple myeloma". Bull N Y Acad Med. 50 (4): 447–58. PMC 1749372. PMID 4594853.
Further reading and information:
Wikipedia
National Park Service
Directions: Natchez Trace Parkway mile marker 45.7. From Hermanville, MS via MS-18 W and Natchez Trace Parkway, 20.1 mi.
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