Tuskaloosa
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Tuskaloosa was the leader of a polity bearing his name in what is now the U.S. state of Alabama. His people were ancestors to the several southern Native American confederacies who later emerged in th
Chief Tuskaloosa in an illustration by H. Roe
Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site
Artist's conception of the burning of Mabila, illustration by H. Roe
The Mississippian period is an archaeological cultural era in the history of the Southern United States and adjacent areas of the Eastern Woodlands spanning the end of the 10th century to the 16th cen
Tuskaloosa
…Outside the palisade in the field, they saw an older warrior haranguing younger men, or leading them in mock skirmishes and military exercises. The South Appalachian Mississippian culture "Big Eddy phase" has been tentatively identified as the protohistoric "Province of Tuskaloosa" encountered by the de Soto expedition in 1540. The Big…
Willoughby disc, engraved paint palette, Mississippian tradition, Moundville, Alabama, 1300 1450 AD, ploughed up 1860, shale Native American collection Peabody Museum, Harvard University DSC06065
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