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The Mississippi Mound Trail is a driving tour of 33 sites adjoining U.S. Route 61 where indigenous peoples of the Mississippi Delta built earthworks. [1] The mounds were primarily built between 500 and 1500 AD, [ 2 ] but are representative of a variety of cultures known as the Mound Builders .
Anguilla is a town in Sharkey County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 496 at the 2020 census, down from 726 at the 2010 census. History.
Map of Anguilla The lagoon is an important breeding site for least terns. Long Pond, also known as Long Salt Pond, is a 23 hectare brackish lagoon on the central south-eastern coast of the main island of Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. About 1.2 km long, it is separated from the sea at its eastern end by sand dunes.
A mound diagram of the platform mound showing the multiple layers of mound construction, mound structures such as temples or mortuaries, ramps with log stairs, and prior structures under later layers, multiple terraces, and intrusive burials. The namesake cultural trait of the Mound Builders was the building of mounds and other earthworks.
Map of Anguilla showing the pond at Road Bay on the north-west coast Sandy Ground view with the pond visible on the right behind the strip of housing along the Road Bay beach Road Salt Pond. Road Salt Pond, also known as Road Bay Pond or simply Road Pond, is a wetland in Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea.
The mound builders were a variety of pre-Columbian cultures who inhabited the areas of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River Valley, and the Mississippi River valley. Rather than the wigwam of much of the plains peoples, or the pueblo culture of the American southwest, the mound builders created giant earthwork communities. Thousands of mounds have ...
One mile east, across the county line into Neshoba County of the platform mound, is a natural hill near Nanih Waiya Creek, surrounded by woods. Within this hill, sometimes called Nanih Waiya Cave Mound, is Nanih Waiya cave, considered by many Choctaw to be the site of their emergence onto the surface of the earth.
Near the visitor center is a reconstructed ceremonial earthlodge, based on a 1,000-year-old structure excavated by archeologists. Visitors can reach the Great Temple Mound via a half-mile walk or the park road. Other surviving prehistoric features in the park include a burial mound, platform mounds, and earthwork trenches.