Ocmulgee National Monument

Ocmulgee National Monument preserves traces of over ten millennia of Southeastern Native American culture, including major earthworks built before 1000 CE by the South Appalachian Mississippian culture (a regional variation of the Mississippian culture. These include the Great Temple and other ceremonial mounds, a burial mound, and defensive trenches. They represented highly skilled engineering techniques and soil knowledge, and the organization of many laborers. The site has evidence of "17,000 years of continuous human habitation. The 702-acre (2.84 km) park is located on the east bank of the Ocmulgee River. Present-day Macon, Georgia developed around the site after the United States built Fort Benjamin Hawkins nearby in 1806.

Varying cultures of prehistoric indigenous peoples settled on what is called the Macon Plateau at the Fall Line, where the rolling hills of the Piedmont met the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The monument designation includes the Lamar Mounds and Village Site, located downriver about three miles (5 km) from Macon. The monument park was designated for federal protection by the National Park Service (NPS) in 1934 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. In 1997, the NPS designated the monument a Traditional Cultural Property, the first so recognized east of the Mississippi River.

Substance 

1 National Monument

2 History

2.1 Macon Plateau society

2.2 Lamar Phase

2.3 Spanish contact

2.4 Historic period

3 Images

3.1 Archaeology Museum

3.2 Ocmulgee Earth Lodge

4 See moreover

5 References

6 External connections


History

Macon Plateau culture

Ocmulgee (affirmed "oak-ponder ghee") is a remembrance to antiquated indigenous people groups in Southeast North America. From Ice Age seekers to the Muscogee (Creek) of notable times, the site has proof of 17,000 years of human residence. The Macon level was possessed amid the Paleoindian, Archaic, and Woodland stages.

The real occupation was ca. 950-1150 amid the Early Mississippian-society stage. The general population of this advanced, stratified society fabricated the intricate, enormous earthworks that communicated their religious and political system. Archaeologist call this general public the Macon Plateau culture, a nearby articulation of the Mississippian culture. During this period, a tip top society bolstered by capable ranchers built a town. Pioneers coordinated the unpredictable development of huge, earthwork hills, the focal structures on the level.

Conveying earth by hand in packs, a great many laborers constructed the 55 ft (17 m).- high Great Temple Mound on a high feign ignoring the floodplain of the Ocmulgee River. Magnetometer filters have uncovered the stage hill had a spiraling staircase situated toward the floodplain. The staircase is interesting among any of the Mississippian-society locales. Different earthworks incorporate no less than one entombment hill.

The general population constructed rectangular wooden structures to house certain religious services on the stage hills. The hills at Ocmulgee were irregular since they were built more far off from each other than was regular of other Mississippian buildings. Researchers trust this was to accommodate open space and habitations around the hills.

Round earth cabins were worked to serve as spots to lead gatherings and vital functions. Stays of one of the earth cabins were cell based dated to 1050 CE. This proof was the premise for the reproduced lodge which archeologists later worked at the landmark focus. The inside elements a raised-earth stage, molded like a falcon with a forked-eye theme. Formed seats on the stage were worked for the pioneers. The bird was an image of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, which the general population imparted to other Mississippian societies.