Towosahgy in southeastern Missouri preserves a long Native history in the Missouri Bootheel, with occupation from about 400 to 1350 CE. Beginning as a Late Woodland village, it later became a major Mississippian mound center centered on a plaza with seven platform mounds, enclosed by a palisade and moat. The site, also called the Beckwith's Fort Archeological Site, includes evidence of changing lifeways as pottery shifted from grog-tempered Woodland wares to shell-tempered Mississippian ceramics. Abandoned in the late 14th century for unknown reasons, Towosahgy survives today as an archaeological site protected by Missouri and recognized on the National Register of Historic Places.