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3 unusual facts about Mississippian culture pottery


Beasley Mounds Site

Bush's excavations at the site produced stone pipes, stone discoidals used for the game of chunkey and numerous examples of Mississippian culture pottery specific to the Nashville Basin area.

Brentwood Library Site

Mississippian culture pottery vessels and sherds found at the site were made with techniques and forms found across the Mississippian world.

Swallow Bluff Island Mounds

In his 1914 visit C. B. Moore dug into the main mound looking for pottery and other artifacts.


Tolu Site

Because of similarities among the following sites in their styles of pottery and construction of communities, it is also considered part of the "Kincaid Set", together with Angel Mounds in Indiana and Kincaid Mounds in Illinois, and Wickliffe Mounds in far western Kentucky.


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