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| Town Creek Indian Mound site is today a grassy mound with re-created buildings and a stockade. The mound was built, one basketful of earth at a time, sometime around AD 1250 by people whose name for themselves is lost to time. Image Courtesy of William Russ — N.C. Tourism & newsobserver.com . |
Amber Veverka, of newsobserver.com, has written an informative article about a recent archaeological excavation near Town Creek Indian Mound, a North Carolinian village site which was built sometime around AD 1250.
"What Boudreaux discovered is that the land at Town Creek State Historic Site has been occupied, on and off, since the Ice Age, and that for a long time, the site wasn’t a set-apart, sacred center – it was a busy, thriving community. Boudreaux’s mapping of the soil stains shows too many buildings for the site to have been mostly vacant. And items like the charred corncob show the site was full of everyday life."
To read the full article, click here.
For more information,
Visit:
- "Community and Ritual within the Mississippian Center at Town Creek". Boudreaux III, Edmond. American Antiquity. Jul2013, Vol. 78 Issue 3, pg 483-501.
- North Carolina Historic Sites
- Town Creek Indian Mound
- National Historic Landmark
- The Pee Dee Culture
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