Mangum Mound

Excavation of this site has revealed much about the people of the late prehistoric periods. The Plaquemine culture included the ancestors of the modern tribes of Mississippi and Louisiana. It was a society with elaborate agriculturally oriented religious ceremonies. Burials on the mound show a high infant mortality and indicate that upon the death of a chief, a brutal ritual was enacted in which his retainers were slain and buried with him.

Hermanville, Mississippi · United States