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Kolomoki Burial Mounds and the Weeden Island Mortuary Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

William H. Sears
William H. Sears*
Affiliation:
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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Kolomoki is about six miles from the Chattahoochee River, in extreme southwestern Georgia. One of the larger southeastern sites, it covers approximately three hundred acres, including a rectangular truncated pyramidal temple mound 56 feet high, a plaza about 40 acres in extent, and 7 dome shaped mounds ranging in height from 4 to 20 feet. Three of the latter mounds have been excavated, two of which, D and E, were burial mounds and supplied parts of the data for this study (Sears, 1951b). The third excavated mound probably covered the site of a ceremonial structure and crematory area (Larsen, n.d.).

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , January 1953 , pp. 223 - 229
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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