Nacoochee Mound
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The Nacoochee Mound is an archaeological site on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in White County, in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Georgia. Georgia State Route 17 and Georgia State Rout
The Nacoochee Mound
Mississippian stone box grave, showing arranged position of human remains
Georgia State Historical Marker, dated 1955
Mississippian culture pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. It is often characterized by the a
Nacoochee Mound
…individuals were buried with artifacts indicative of social status, including hammered copper and stone celts, conch shell beads and cups, and elaborate Mississippian culture pottery. Some later burials included glass beads and sheet brass ornaments, indicating that these were intrusive burials from the 17th-century contact period…
A human head effigy pot from the Nodena site
A diorama of a Mississippian culture potter from the Angel Mounds site museum
A Quadrula intermedia, a species of freshwater mussel, endemic to the US
A potter smooths the inside of a vessel