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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 Mounds: Oklahoma Located in eastern Oklahoma, this is a large complex with multiple mounds. It is one of the best-studied archaeological centers of Mississippian culture; a number of significant artifacts were recovered. But looters had previously attacked the mounds and stolen many artifacts. Starr Village and Mound Group: Illinois
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.
The Spiro site is the only Mississippian site where an artifact from Mesoamerica has been found. This is a piece of black obsidian from Mexico , which likely reached this site through Caddoan Mississippian trade with peoples to the Southwest. [ 7 ]
Archaeologists found that the Etowah plates, the plates of the Wulfing cache in southeast Missouri, and the numerous plates found in the mortuary chamber of the Craig Mound at the Spiro Mounds site in eastern Oklahoma shared many design similarities. They began to theorize the meaning of the designs and to see that the culture that created them ...
A total of 29 mounds remain on the site. [3] Of the two largest mounds in the group, Mound A occupies a central position in the great plaza, and Mound B lies just to the north. It is a steep, 58 feet (18 m)-tall pyramidal mound with two access ramps. [3]
He pioneered work on the Spiro Mounds archaeological site in eastern Oklahoma. A Partial Bibliography of Dr. Robert E. Bell: 1947, Preliminary Report On the Archeological Activities Conducted By the Department of Anthropology in the Wister Reservoir Area In the Summer of 1947. 1947, Trade Materials at Spiro Mound As Indicated By Artifacts.
Spiro Mounds; St. Mary's City, Maryland; Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center, in Ponce, Puerto Rico; Toltec Mounds; Topper site in Allendale, South Carolina; Town Creek Indian Mound; Troyville Earthworks; Watson Brake; Wickliffe Mounds; Windover site; Williamsburg; Whydah Gally, site of extensive underwater archaeology; Winterville site