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Etowah Indian Mounds are a 54-acre (220,000 m 2) archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, south of Cartersville.Built and occupied in three phases, from 1000–1550 CE, the prehistoric site is located on the north shore of the Etowah River.
At this current complex the Nuwaubians have constructed an Egyptian-style village with two pyramids, obelisks, and statues of Egyptian leaders. The two pyramids are distinct in appearance and in usage. There is a gold pyramid that serves as a trade center. Within this pyramid one can find a bookstore and a clothing store.
Napier phase ceramics were defined by archaeologists Jesse D. Jennings and Charles H. Fairbanks, who studied Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. Named for the Napier site, near present-day Macon, Georgia, Napier Complicated Stamped ceramics are found in north-central Georgia between the Chattoochee, Oconee, and Flint rivers.
These four phases were the Duvall, Iron Horse, Dyar, and Bell phases. [10] The people at Lamar had a village associated with the mounds. They protected it by a constructed defensive palisade of logs placed vertically. They built rectangular houses, with roofs made of thatch or sod and clay-plastered walls, which were located around the mounds. [11]
Constructed from 350 to 600, the mound complex is located in southwest Georgia, in present-day Early County near the Chattahoochee River. [2] The mounds were designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. [2] [4] Seven of the eight mounds are protected as part of Kolomoki Mounds State Historic Park. [5]
The Cherokee called this site Datsu'nalasgun'ylu (where there are tracks) and Degayelun'ha (the printed or branded place). Cherokee stories include an explanation that hunters paused in the gap and amused themselves by carving the glyphs: the marks were made in a great hunt when the animals were driven through the gap, and that the tracks were ...
Classic literature and religious texts were also deposited, as well as items showing the extent of scientific progress to 1939. Thornwell Jacobs , the initiator of the project, was inspired by the opening of Egyptian pyramids and wanted to create a repository of everyday 1930s objects and a record of human knowledge over the preceding 6,000 years.
Possibly the largest pyramid by volume known to exist in the world today. [1] [2] Pyramid of the Sun: 65.5 216 AD 200 Teotihuacan, Mexico: Pyramid of Menkaure: 65 213 c. 2510 BC Giza, Egypt: Pyramid of Meidum: 65 213 c. 2600 BC Lower Egypt: 65 m tall after partial collapse; would have been 91.65 metres (300.7 ft). Pyramid of Djoser: 62.5 205 c ...