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 Town Creek Indian Mound is one of the most popular State Historic Sites in North Carolina. Visiting Town Creek is an amazing experience � a chance to go back in time and enter a Mississippian period palisaded village. You will see a reconstructed Native American temple on the summit of an earthen mound. Occupations of Town Creek occurred from the 12th century A.D. into the 16th century.
Join the Exploring Joara Foundation and archaeologists Dr. David Moore (Warren Wilson College) and Dr. Tony Boudreaux (East Carolina University) on a tour of Town Creek Indian Mound and learn about the mound building Indians of the central Piedmont of North Carolina. Tony Boudreau is the author of the recent volume, The Archaeology of Town Creek, the first book length treatment of this fascinating site that has been studied since the 1940�s. David Moore directs the excavations of the Berry site, another Mississippian period mound site located in Burke County, North Carolina. The Berry site is also the location of Fort San Juan, the earliest European settlement in the interior of the United States. While at Town Creek, participants will hear a lecture from Dr. Boudreaux, and tour the museum and the reconstructed site including the palisades, mound and temple, and mortuary buildings with Drs. Boudreaux and Moore. The cost of the tour is $60 per person or $45 for members of the Exploring Joara Foundation. Participants can catch the bus at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa or in Morganton. Seats are limited. To reserve your spot on the tour, please send a $25 deposit to the Exploring Joara Foundation, PO Box 296, Morganton, NC 28680. For tour schedule information or questions please contact David Moore at Warren Wilson College ( 828-771-2013) or Rachel Ammons at The Exploring Joara Foundation (828-439-2463). For more information on Town Creek see http://www.nchistoricsites.org/town/Town.htm. (Images and story provided by Warren Wilson.)
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