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Cherokee burial mound in Knoxville, Tennessee. Bodies that were buried outside were covered with rocks and dirt, and then later covered by other dead bodies, which would also be covered with rocks, dirt, and other bodies. These piles of bodies would eventually form large burial mounds. New burial mounds were started when a priest died. [2]
A brief excavation carried out by the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Archaeological Society uncovered several Woodland, Mississippian, and Cherokee artifacts, including shell gorgets and knife blades. The chapter also reported a Cherokee burial accompanied by a musket, knife, steatite pipe, and glass beads. [11]
A mound diagram of the platform mound showing the multiple layers of mound construction, mound structures such as temples or mortuaries, ramps with log stairs, and prior structures under later layers, multiple terraces, and intrusive burials. The namesake cultural trait of the Mound Builders was the building of mounds and other earthworks.
Cherokee 1977 Submerged Tomotley: 40MR5 Mississippian, Cherokee 1967, 1973, 1974, 1976 Submerged Toqua: 40MR6 Mississippian, Cherokee 1975-1978 Submerged Citico: 40MR7 Archaic, Mississippian, Cherokee 1967-1968, 1978 Submerged Halfway Town: 40MR8 Cherokee 1970s Submerged Great Tellico/Chatuga: 40MR12 Cherokee Pate Mound: 40MR16 1981 Galyon Farm ...
The University of Tennessee Agriculture Farm Mound is an archaeological site on the agriculture campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The site is a burial mound made by people of the Woodland period and has been dated as early as 644 AD. [ 1 ]
First settled in 1771 by James and Samuel Tomlinson of England and originally known as Grave Creek, it was named for the more than 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound still in existence. Moundsville ...
Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals.
A day after Indigenous Peoples' Day, the Milwaukee County Parks Department removed a plaque from a 2,000-year-old Indigenous burial mound located in Lake Park.. The department justified the ...