Spiro Mounds: Trade Center for the Continent

LaDonna Brown

LaDonna Brown notes that Spiro Mounds, located in eastern Oklahoma, is the trade center between the Southeast and the Southwest. She describes it as a warehouse or clearing house for the best items that are traded across the continent. It features two excavated mounds and a museum.

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