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Nacoochee Mound is an archaeological site in northeast Georgia that preserves a platform mound and village area occupied first by Woodland peoples and later, from about 1350 to 1600, by South Appalachian Mississippian communities. Built for ceremonial and ritual use, the mound stood within a larger settlement linked to the Lamar phase and to Etowah. Excavations in 1915, among Georgia’s earliest scientific archaeological investigations, found multiple construction phases and 75 burials, some with copper, shell, pottery, glass beads, and brass ornaments that reflect social differences and later contact-era exchange. Debate continues over whether the site was a historic Cherokee town, though early 18th-century records place Cherokee towns in this valley.
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Sautee-Nacoochee, Georgia · United States
