This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas Heide Brandes © Photograph by Mostardi Photography, Alamy Stock Photo Hazy sun over field of wild grass and cloudy blue at Spiro Mounds Archeological Site in Oklahoma, USA.
Shell cups carved with mythical beings. Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native American site in the midwestern U.S. is among the greatest sources of Mississippian Native American artifacts ever discovered.
Located on the Oklahoma and Arkansas border, the Spiro Mounds were part of a city complex populated from 800 to 1450 A.D. At its peak, it supported a population of some 10,000 people. The Mississippian political, trade, and religious confederation incorporated more than 60 different tribes and stretched from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the Great Lakes and from the Rockies to the Virgini
This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas
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On the Town: Exhibit illuminates life in times well before Columbus By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record February 23, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
The new exhibit featuring the treasures found at the Spiro Mounds in eastern Oklahoma has opened at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. You’ll have until May 9 to see it in Oklahoma City. Don’t miss it.
“Spiro and the Mississippian World” is a fascinating look at the people who were here long before Columbus landed in the Americas and before English colonists settled here. That singular point of view was the focus of much of the history that I learned growing up, although thankfully, history lessons have expanded over the years to include more perspectives.