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The Shiloh Indian Mounds site
Shiloh [Figure
1] is one of the few unplowed, major Mississippian
sites.
At Shiloh you can still see, in addition to the 8 or 9
medium-sized
built mounds, the line of the palisade around the site, complete with
projecting
square bastions. Further, there are at least 80 small mounds,
8-15
m across and 30-90 cm high. These small mounds are the remains of
Mississippian wattle-and-daub houses. At Shiloh one can walk
around
the site today and see where the prehistoric houses stood.
Locations
of the known house-mounds are shown as red circles on the site map[Figure
2].
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