Moundville, The Ancient City Videos

By 1250 Moundville was a city with close to 1,000 people and one of the larger settlements in North America, north of Mexico.

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Experience Chickasaw History and Culture

Moundville was a preeminent ancient center of mound culture on the Black Warrior River, just west of present-day Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Experience Chickasaw History and Culture

Archaeologists at most mound sites try to excavate only 5%-10% of the site to avoid destroying it.

Richard Green

Many believe that the Chickasaws descended from the Mississippian-era mound dwellers in Moundville.

LaDonna Brown

LaDonna explains how the location of a dwelling on top of the platform mound is seen as a defining characteristic of the Mississippian time period.

LaDonna Brown

LaDonna describes the connection between rattlesnakes and the legendary horned serpent – both of which dominate prehistoric artifacts.

LaDonna Brown

LaDonna Brown describes the authentic experience is for mound visitors to see where an artifact was made and found, right at the mound site.

LaDonna Brown, Tribal Anthropologist, Department of History & Culture, Chickasaw Nation

LaDonna Brown describes a famous Chickasaw story her grandfather told her when she was a child when they lived not far from Moundville, Alabama.