Ingomar Mound

Camp area on top of Ingomar Mound

Ingomar Mound is the large central mound and sole remaining feature of a ceremonial center of the late Mississippian Period of cultural development. A total of 13 mounds composing the group have been excavated. Believed to be a temple mound, Ingomar is the only structure of the group not overrun by later agriculture and development, thus generally undisturbed when archeologists began studying the complex of mounds.[1] At least one of the mounds in the group was a flat-topped burial mound.[2] Ingomar is one of the largest such mounds found in the Southeast.[3] Ingomar is important because of its potential for the testing of theories about aboriginal settlement pattern hypotheses, such as the Clay's system environments theory[4] and Steponaitis' spatial efficiency theory[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Calvin S. Brown (2012). Archeology of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 14–21. ISBN 9781617033490. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  2. ↑ David S. Brose (1991). Yesterday's river: the archaeology of 10,000 years along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. p. 61. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  3. ↑ Evan Peacock (2005). Mississippi Archaeology Q & A. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 17. ISBN 9781604736434. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  4. ↑ R. Berle Clay (1976). "TACTICS, STRATEGY, AND OPERATIONS: THE MISSISSIPPIAN SYSTEM RESPONDS TO ITS ENVIRONMENT". Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. 1: 137–163. JSTOR 20707792.
  5. ↑ Bruce D. Smith (2014). Mississippian Settlement Patterns: Studies in Archeology. Academic Press. pp. 421–423 & 428–449. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "Ingomar Mound [22-Un-500]". MDAH Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
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