Mound 12

Mound 12 is 4.5 feet high with a base of 75 by 55 feet and dates to A.D. 400-500. Archaeological investigations in 1975 revealed that it was built upon a natural rise occupied during the early Woodland Period, about 800-200 B.C., before the site's major mound building. Near the base, archaeologists found the mound's primary function in a multi-layered clay platform that contained a crematory pit and associated cremations. Wood charcoal recovered from the crematory pit yielded a radiocarbon date of A.D. 460, indicating construction near the end of the Middle Woodland Period.

Tennessee · United States