Little Mulberry Indian Mounds
Parks-Strickland Archeological Complex | |
 One of Little Mulberry mounds within the complex | |
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| Nearest city | Dacula, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 34°2′32″N 83°53′13″W / 34.04222°N 83.88694°W |
| Area | 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 89002034[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 8, 1989 |
The Little Mulberry Indian Mounds are a series of carefully stacked rock piles located in Little Mulberry Park, Dacula, Georgia. In 1990, architect Michael Garrow counted 200 of these stone mounds while surveying the land ahead of a proposed golf course residential development.[2] The stone piles are typically circular or semicircular in shape. Most of those that have been examined archaeologically have revealed no cultural artifacts beyond the stone structure, while a few have been found to have historical 19th-century artifacts underneath them.
A subset of the area, part of its early identification, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Parks-Strickland Archeological Complex. There continues to be scholarly dispute over the function and significance of the structures,[3] although Native American tribes historically associated with the region claim them to have funerary significance.[2]
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[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Teegardin, Carrie. The Freelance Star. (1990). Fredericksburg, VA. Retrieved 8/16/2017. Site: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19900504&id=iuQPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zIsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6947,859323
- ^ "Newsletter of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, Fall 2003" (PDF). Society for Georgia Archaeology. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.