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CATHEY: Southeastern Oklahoma's forgotten city: The Spiros and their mounds


Looter Tunnel 1938 at the Spiro site.(Permission Sam Nobel Museum of Natural History) 
Temple Mound, Spiro, 1936, showing the ragged destruction by the looters.(Permission Oklahoma Historical Society) 
Spiro Mounds Archeological Center signageMIKE CATHEY | Photo
Recent photo of Craig’s Mound at Spiro Mounds Archeological Center.MIKE CATHEY | Photo 
Artist s conception of Spiro Mounds viewed from the west.(Permission Spiro Mounds Archeological Center) 
Herb Roe
When they were unearthed in 1935, Oklahoma’s Spiro Mounds were dubbed by the Kansas City Star, “a King Tut tomb in the Arkansas Valley.” The mounds held thousands of richly-decorated, sophisticated artifacts from Native American Mississippian people, who thrived in the area before the arrival of European settlers. ....

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This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas


This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas
Heide Brandes
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Hazy sun over field of wild grass and cloudy blue at Spiro Mounds Archeological Site in Oklahoma, USA.
Shell cups carved with mythical beings. Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native American site in the midwestern U.S. is among the greatest sources of Mississippian Native American artifacts ever discovered.
Located on the Oklahoma and Arkansas border, the Spiro Mounds were part of a city complex populated from 800 to 1450 A.D. At its peak, it supported a population of some 10,000 people. The Mississippian political, trade, and religious confederation incorporated more than 60 different tribes and stretched from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the Great Lakes and from the Rock ....

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