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Engraved whelk shell from Spiro Mounds depicting a falcon warrior. Spiro Mounds [3] is an Indigenous archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma. The site was built by people from the Arkansas Valley Caddoan culture. [4] that remains from an American Indian culture that was part of the major northern Caddoan Mississippian culture
Spiro is located 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the Arkansas River, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Fort Smith, Arkansas and 10 miles (16 km) west of the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. [ 5 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2 ), of which 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square ...
Antlers is a city in and the county seat of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 2,221 as of the 2020 United States census. [5] The town was named for a kind of tree that becomes festooned with antlers shed by deer, and is taken as a sign of the location of a spring frequented by deer.
Pushmataha County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,812. [1] Its county seat is Antlers. [2]The county was created at statehood from part of the former territory of the Choctaw Nation, which had its capital at the town of Tuskahoma.
A map of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex and some of its associated sites. Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (formerly Southern Cult, Southern Death Cult or Buzzard Cult [1] [2]), abbreviated S.E.C.C., is the name given by modern scholars to the regional stylistic similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies, and mythology of the Mississippian culture.
Fort Coffee is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. Originally constructed as a U. S. Army fort in 1834, it was named for U. S. General John Coffee, a veteran of the Seminole Wars. [4] It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 424 at the 2010 census, a gain of 2.9 percent ...
A mound complex which includes mounds, a geometric enclosure and numerous habitation areas, it is the largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States. The complex covers approximately 400 acres (1.6 km 2) and contains at least 30 mounds, 17 of which have been identified as being completely or partially constructed by prehistoric ...
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]