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Oconastota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Duane H. King  and
Danny E. Olinger
Duane H. King
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Danny E. Olinger
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri
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Abstract

In the spring of 1783, Oconastota, the Great Warrior and principal chief of the Overhill Cherokees, died and was buried at his beloved town of Chota on the Little Tennessee River in present day Monroe County, Tennessee. In the fall of 1969, the Department of Anthropology of the University of Tennessee, while conducting archaeological investigations at this site, disinterred a burial which exhibits striking correlations with the historic accounts of Oconastota and his inhumation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 222 - 228
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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