Lamar Mounds and Village Site
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Macon, Georgia, Bibb County, Georgia,  USA
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| Region | Bibb County, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 32°48′43.92″N 83°35′31.85″W / 32.8122000°N 83.5921806°W |
| History | |
| Founded | 1350 CE |
| Abandoned | 1600 CE |
| Periods | Lamar Phase |
| Cultures | South Appalachian Mississippian culture |
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| Excavation dates | 1934, 1936, 1938, 1939-1940, 1996 |
| Archaeologists |
James A. Ford, Arthur R. Kelly, Gordon Willey, Jesse D. Jennings, Charles Fairbanks, Mark Williams WPA, Lamar Institute |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural styles | platform mound |
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Number of temples: 2 |
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Ocmulgee National Monument
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| Location | 1207 Emory Hwy., E of Macon, Macon, Georgia |
| Area | 702.1 acres (284.1 ha) |
| NRHP Reference # | 66000099 |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
James A. Ford, Arthur R. Kelly, Gordon Willey, Jesse D. Jennings, Charles Fairbanks, Mark Williams
Number of temples: 2
The Lamar Mounds and Village Site (9BI2) is an important archaeological site on the banks of the Ocmulgee River in Bibb County, Georgia (U.S. state) and several miles to the southeast of the Ocmulgee Mound Site. Both mound sites are part of the Ocmulgee National Monument, a national park and historic district created in 1936 and run by the U.S. National Park Service. Historians and archaeologists have theorized that the site is the location of the main village of the Ichisi encountered by the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1539.
The site has two large platform mounds and an associated village area surrounded by a palisade. The original settlement may have been started on a natural levee of the Ocmulgee River, a location which eventually became Mound A. The main village area spreads out to the southeast from this location. This location may have been island-like at the time of its settlement, the only high ground located in a low swampy area with the Ocmulgee River on one side and an oxbow lake on the other. Houses in the village were rectangular wattle and daub structures, some situated on low house mounds, and the 3,500-foot-long (1,070 m) palisade was made of upright logs covered in clay. The palisade encircled an area of about 25 acres (0.1 km2) and followed the island shape of the raised levee. Out side of the palisade was an encirling ditch, probably water filled at the time of the sites occupation. Mound A is a large mound with a round 10 metres (33 ft) in diameter and 10–15-centimetre (3.9–5.9 in) deep depression located in the northwestern quadrant of its summit. This feature is thought to be the remnants of a collapsed earth lodge with a dugout floor and embanked walls. Unlike other Middle Mississippian culture mounds to the northwest, Lamar-style mounds are more rounded in shape as compared to squared-off rectangles.
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