Ceremonial Indian Mounds, built around 1000 A.D. They comprise one of the largest mound groups in the Mississippi Valley. Great central mound is 55 ft. in height.
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Winterville Mounds was an important political & religious center during the Mississippi Period (ca. AD 1200-1450). First occupied during the Coles Creek Period, beginning around AD 1000, the site originally had as many as 23 mounds, the largest of which is 55 feet tall. These mounds were flanked by open plazas to the northeast & southwest, & a ring of boundary mounds surrounded both plaza areas. The mounds were built between AD 1200 & 1450, & many of them had structures on their summits.
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Winterville Mounds, named for the nearby town of Winterville, Mississippi, is the site of a prehistoric ceremonial center built by Native Americans of the Plaquemine culture, the regional variation of the Mississippian culture. This civilization thrived from about 1000 to 1450CE. The mounds, an expression of the Winterville society's religious and political system, were the site of sacred structures and ceremonies. They were built between 1200 and 1250. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Winterville people lived away from the mound center on family farms in scattered settlement districts throughout the Yazoo-Mississippi River Delta basin. Only a few of the higher-ranking tribal officials lived at this mound complex.
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The Winterville Site is a major archaeological site. It consists of major earthwork monuments, including more than twelve large platform mounds and cleared and filled plazas. It is the type site for the Winterville Phase (1200 to 1400) of the Lower Yazoo Basin region of the Plaquemine Mississippian culture.
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River & streams were crucial for transportation, & the first mounds, at Winterville were constructed on a natural Mississippi River levee.
The river's course has shifted over the centuries but it was only about a mile away at that time.
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