Mound Bottom | |
 View of the central plaza and platform mound at Mound Bottom, from May's Mace Bluff | |
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| Location | Cheatham County, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 36°8′23.35″N 87°6′4.93″W / 36.1398194°N 87.1013694°W |
| Built | 950-1300 CE |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000813 |
| Added to NRHP | 1971 |
Mound Bottom is a prehistoric Native American complex in Cheatham County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. The complex, which consists of earthen platform and burial mounds, a 7-acre central plaza, and habitation areas, was occupied between approximately 1000 and 1300 AD,[1] during the Mississippian period.
The Mound Bottom site is likely associated with another mound complex located just over a mile to the south known as the Pack Site, or Great Mound Division, and together they have been called the "Great Mound Group." Due to structural similarities in the mounds and ceramic chronologies, these sites are believed to have been contemporaneous.[1]
- ^ a b Michael C. Moore, David H. Dye, and Kevin E. Smith, "WPA Excavations at the Mound Bottom and Pack Sites in Middle Tennessee, 1936-1940." In New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee: Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions, edited by David H. Dye, pp. 116-137. University of Alabama Press, 2016.