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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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Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit - The Magazine Antiques


Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit
Glenn Adamson
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC.
What would burn, they burned. They crushed the rest underfoot. And when they were done, they blew up the whole thing with dynamite.
The year was 1935. The setting, just a few miles outside of Spiro, Oklahoma. Centuries earlier, indigenous Americans had invested this site with great spiritual significance. On top of a sacred mound built by their own ancestors, they constructed a hollow chamber and placed within it a cache of valuable objects: textiles, engraved shells, copper axes and plates, wooden sculptures, large-scale effigy pipes. This “King Tut’s Tomb in the Arkansas Valley” (as one 1930s newspaper put it) was one of the most important archaeological repositories in America, indeed, the world. Yet it was all but completely destroyed in a moment of casual vandalism. ....

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