 Stairs leading up Ingomar Mound | |
  Location within Mississippi today | |
| Location | Ingomar, Mississippi, Union County, Mississippi,  USA |
|---|---|
| Region | Union County, Mississippi |
| Coordinates | 34°23′50.1″N 89°02′57.7″W / 34.397250°N 89.049361°W / 34.397250; -89.049361 |
| History | |
| Founded | 200 AD |
| Abandoned | 1800 AD |
| Cultures | Woodland period, Mississippian culture |
| Site notes | |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural styles | platform mound |
| Architectural details | Number of monuments:1 |
| Ingomar Mound | |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| NRHP reference No. | 78001632 |
| Added to NRHP | June 9, 1978 |
| Responsible body: The Archaeological Conservancy | |
Ingomar Mound is the large central mound and sole remaining feature of a ceremonial center of the late Mississippian Period of cultural development. A total of 13 mounds composing the group have been excavated. Believed to be a temple mound, Ingomar is the only structure of the group not overrun by later agriculture and development, thus generally undisturbed when archeologists began studying the complex of mounds. At least one of the mounds in the group was a flat-topped burial mound. Ingomar is one of the largest such mounds found in the Southeast. Ingomar is important because of its potential for the testing of theories about aboriginal settlement pattern hypotheses, such as the Clay's system environments theory and Steponaitis' spatial efficiency theory
References
- "National Register of Historic Places". Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
- Calvin S. Brown (2012). Archeology of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 14–21. ISBN 9781617033490. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- David S. Brose (1991). Yesterday's river: the archaeology of 10,000 years along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. p. 61. ISBN 9781878600004. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- Evan Peacock (2005). Mississippi Archaeology Q & A. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 17. ISBN 9781604736434. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- R. Berle Clay (1976). "Tactics, Strategy, and Operations: The Mississippian System Responds to ITS Environment". Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. 1 (2): 137–163. JSTOR 20707792.
- Bruce D. Smith (2014). Mississippian Settlement Patterns: Studies in Archeology. Academic Press. pp. 421–423 & 428–449. ISBN 9781483220246. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
- "Ingomar Mound [22-Un-500]". MDAH Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet. Retrieved October 23, 2016.