Alysa Landry, of Indian Country Today, has written an informative article about Nashville Metropolitan Council's efforts to preserve a 6.7 acre plot which containts the area's largest intact Mississippian village.
"The village, known as Kellytown, dates to the 1400s and was part of a massive civilization built along a natural sulfur spring....Nashville was settled in the late 1700s, on top of what archaeologists call a thriving metropolis, home to perhaps hundreds of thousands of people belonging to the Mississippian Culture, or mound-builders. The population of ancient Nashville disbursed around 1450—before the arrival of European settlers—but the people left behind dozens of village sites, some larger towns and countless graves."
To read the full article, click here.
For more information,
Visit:
- Fundraising Successful: Native Settlement in Nashville to be Saved
- Indian Country Today.
- December 9, 2014.
- Southeastern Prehistory: Mississippian and Late Prehistoric Period
- Southeast Archaeological Center
- Introduction to Mississippian Cultures
- Virtual First Ohioans
- Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
- National Park Service
- Mississippian World
- Texas Beyond History
- Late Woodland to Mississippian Transition in Illinois Due to Internal Culture Change Not Migration
- December 2, 2014.
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