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1000c. 1000–1450 · Moundville, Alabama

Moundville, Mississippian capital of the Black Warrior valley

A grassy Mississippian earthen mound beside a pond at Moundville, Alabama
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Between about 1000 and 1450 Mississippian people built a planned town above the Black Warrior River, with 29 earthen platform mounds around a great plaza. At its height it was the political and religious centre of the valley, the second-largest Mississippian site after Cahokia. The Muscogee, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations are counted among its descendants; a park museum now displays the finds.

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  1. Site 1: Moundville Archaeological ParkGrassed platform mounds round a vast plaza, with the Jones Archaeological Museum.Map ↗

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