1930's Archaeological Excavation of the Mississippian Burial Mound At Tolu, Kentucky

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This is a sketch that was taken during a 1930's archaeological mine of a Mississippian burial pile located in a tiny village of Tolu upon a banks of a Ohio River in Crittenden County, Kentucky. This was one of a series of archaeological excavations that occurred in a Western Kentucky area during a 1930's by a University of Kentucky with appropriation from President Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

Tolu was a site of a tiny Mississippian Indian town that was comprised of three large, gritty mounds as well as numerous tiny mounds. The Mississippians were a people that inhabited this region
about 1,000 years ago (these burials have been antiquated to about 1200, AD) This enlightenment widespread throughout a Southeastern as well as Northeastern United States. The Mississippian enlightenment additionally widespread as distant west as Oklahoma.

This enlightenment was characterized by a construction of large, gritty mounds identical to a pyramids found among a Aztec as well as Mayans of Mexico. The enlightenment was additionally noted for a heavy coherence upon corn as well as establishing a formidable multitude formed upon classes. The people who assigned a Tolu site raised corn in a fertile floodplain of a Ohio River.

The University of Kentucky chose to come to Tolu after conference of reports that farmers in a area had been finding various artifacts in their fields as well as gardens for years, such as arrowheads, stalk points, flint knives, pottery chards, as well as sea shells. There were additionally reports of gritty mounds at a location.

Most of a well known burials in a burial pile were excavated as well as photographs were taken. As distant as we understand, none of a remains were removed; they were simply reburied at their location. Some gra! ve produ cts were found (pots, arrowheads) along with particular burials. Today, it is considered highly unpleasant to control practices like this in a United States as well as is noticed as grave desecration....a outlook that we share.

There have been no serve archaeological excavations at a Tolu site as well as no efforts have been done to protect a area. In fact, during my last revisit to Tolu, we saw a house built without delay upon top of one of a gritty mounds. There have been alternative smaller, heavenly body sites nearby as well as a region is scattered with stone artifacts left at a back of by these people; most of that we found as a boy upon my granddad's farm.

No one knows for certain what happened to a Mississippians because their enlightenment was gone prior to a arrival of European explorers as well as settlers. Some archaeologists speculate that a enlightenment might have died out due to disease, starvation, or alternative goods of overpopulation such as poor sanitation.

Here is a pick up of photographs of some of a artifacts that we found that were left at a back of by these people:

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Here is an artist's depiction of a Mississippian people in Western Kentucky:

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