12,000 years of mystery and the secret of ancient America hid at the site of this Georgia National Park

Located on the east side Macon South City, Charming GeorgiaOCMULGEE MOUNDS The National History Park consists of 2000 acres of land managed by the National Park Service (NPS). It is a potential candidate to be Next United States National Park, which will add another 50,000 acres to the park.

What makes Georgia a specific area eligible for such conservation? Ocmulgee has a deep prehistoric, with archaeological evidence that shows the presence of native American on site for thousands of years.

During the historic period, Ocmulgee was at the intersection of some of the most important American (and tragic) American historical events. As the officials debated to lift the historic park to the status (and size) of the National Park, it is important for everyone to appreciate OCMULGEE heritage.

The excavator discovered Clovis artifacts from 12,000 years ago at Ocmulgee Mounds National History Park in 1935

Single Clovis point helps establish a deep prehistoric in Ocmulgee

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park has a deep prehistoric. OCMULGEE National Park (NPS) service as “more than 12,000 years of continuous human residence” and provides evidence to support this claim. Between 1933 and 1936, the largest archaeological excavation in American history took place in OCMULGEE, involving various federal agencies, including the famous Public Conservation Corps (CCC) and Public Administration (WPA), as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts.

Although the excavation at OCMulgee focuses on the cultural understanding of Moundbuilder’s culture, the excavator accidentally revealed something much older than the mound in 1935. The excavators discovered a clovis spear pointing while digging a fire that was left near the “Earth Cottage” (structure of a thousand years ago).

Clovis ‘eyes were named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where they first discovered in 1929. Modern and scientific dating techniques show that Clovis’ eyes were about 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists refer to those who make and use Clovis’ eyes as “Paleo-India,” and they are believed to be Native American ancestors. With Clovis Points initially discovered in Western America, the discovery in Ocmulgee was the first Clovis artifact in the southeast. These findings help determine how long the region has been home.

American archaeologists traditionally see Clovis culture as the earliest people to live in North America. However, New Findings -This is the oldest fossil trail in White Sands National Park in New Mexico has provided evidence of human occupation of North America for the past 23,000 years. So far, Clovis Spearpoint remains the oldest artifact in OCMulgee, although it is possible that the future exploration of this site can establish a deeper prehistory for the area.

The Sacred Mounds of the Mississippians – iconic features & Mississippian cultural evidence

This land work can still be explored by the visitors today

Following the time of Clovis hunter 12,000 years ago, native people living in southeastern Americans will practice new ways of new ways, in what archaeologists consider to be a series of different “cultural times”. In the next thousands of years, these people have developed or adopted new technologies to survive, such as complicated tools for hunting and cooking, pottery and agriculture.

By 900 AD, the new cultural phase, known as the “Mississippian culture,” was present at OCMULGEE. Named for the Mississippi River, where they built many of their cities, Mississippian culture spread throughout South America and the American Midwest today.

Their iconic feature of their culture is the construction of large land mound. The most famous mound is at the Cahokia site on the Mississippi River, one of the first and largest cities in North AmericaNear St. Louis now, who has a larger population of London and Paris at that time.

In Ocmulgee, Mississippians built several mounds, especially the 55 -foot Great Temple Mound, which may be the head of the chairman. According to NPSThe Mounds in Ocmulgee and other Mississippian sites show that the level of social hierarchy is working:

“Extensive construction of mound shows that Mississippians has a complex social structure. Strong leaders need to implement the planning and implementation of building projects.

Another interesting Mississippian construction in OCMULGEE is the “Lodge Earth,” being re -constructed by CCC and WPA in 1930 -an. Guests visiting the park can enter the reconstructed lodge Earth and see the original clay floor, which has dated carbon up to 1015 AD.

Where the survivor of the “first sitting” & falsified a new country

Ocmulgee is arrested in a change of history

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Although they left an attractive monument and artifact, people from the Mississippian culture unfortunately did not leave a written record. Georgia entered history in 1540 with the invasion of a well -known expedition by Spain Conquistador Hernando de Soto.

A Spanish conquest veteran of the Inca Empire, De Soto, and his people in vain looking for gold in Southeast America from 1539-1542, who traveled from Florida to the Mississippi River in a bloody parade, killing and abducting many of the native Americans they were facing. During the parade through Georgia, it is believed that the De Soto expedition approved by Lamar Mounds, about 2.5 miles south of Ocmulgee, home to the late Mississippian culture at the time.

The germs spread by the De Soto man sweeping the entire village and crushing the southeast, as the native Americans have no immunity to the old world disease. Their descendants of the survivors call themselves Muscogee and falsify a new country in Georgia and Alabama, the Muscogee Confederation. Anglo-American residents in the region call them “Creek Indians.”

The mound in Ocmulgee is (and still) holy for muscogee. As Chief David Hill described in a statement in 2022:

“Ocmulgee holds a deep and special meaning for the country of Muscogee Creek.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Elimination Act. The following year, Muscogee and other American native from the southeast were forced to be removed from their land and moved to Oklahoma in what Known today as Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Thousands of people die along the way.

Almost two centuries after the tears, Ocmulgee, the birthplace of the Muscogee Confederation, could return to the muscogee again. Plans to make Ocmulgee Mounds National History Park became the National Park for NPS to leverage the park with Muscogee Nation. Although the plan fell and the park remained that way, it was clear that OCMulgee’s future was holding the potential as much as the past.