Ingomar Mound

Ingomar Mounds
(22 UN 500)
	Stairs leading up Ingomar Mound
	Location within Mississippi today
Location	Ingomar, Mississippi, Union County, Mississippi, USA
Region	Union County, Mississippi
Coordinates	34°23′50.1″N 89°02′57.7″W
History
Founded	200 AD
Abandoned	1800 AD
Cultures	Woodland period, Mississippian culture
Site notes
Architecture
Architectural styles	platform mound
Architectural details	Number of monuments:1
	Ingomar Mound
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.	78001632[1]
Added to NRHP	June 9, 1978
	Responsible body: The Archaeological Conservancy

Ingomar Mound is the large central mound and sole remaining feature of a ceremonial center of the late Mississippian Period of cultural development. A total of 13 mounds composing the group have been excavated. Believed to be a temple mound, Ingomar is the only structure of the group not overrun by later agriculture and development, thus generally undisturbed when archeologists began studying the complex of mounds.[2] At least one of the mounds in the group was a flat-topped burial mound.[3] Ingomar is one of the largest such mounds found in the Southeast.[4] Ingomar is important because of its potential for the testing of theories about aboriginal settlement pattern hypotheses, such as the Clay's system environments theory[5] and Steponaitis' spatial efficiency theory[6][7]

Camp area on top of Ingomar Mound

References

"National Register of Historic Places". Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
Calvin S. Brown (2012). Archeology of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 14–21. ISBN 9781617033490. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
David S. Brose (1991). Yesterday's river: the archaeology of 10,000 years along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. p. 61. ISBN 9781878600004. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
Evan Peacock (2005). Mississippi Archaeology Q & A. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 17. ISBN 9781604736434. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
R. Berle Clay (1976). "Tactics, Strategy, and Operations: The Mississippian System Responds to ITS Environment". Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. 1 (2): 137–163. JSTOR 20707792.
Bruce D. Smith (2014). Mississippian Settlement Patterns: Studies in Archeology. Academic Press. pp. 421–423 & 428–449. ISBN 9781483220246. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
"Ingomar Mound [22-Un-500]". MDAH Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet. Retrieved 23 October 2016.

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[NRHP-1] "National Register of Historic Places". Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2021-07-12.

[Brown-2] Calvin S. Brown (2012). Archeology of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 14–21. ISBN 9781617033490. Retrieved 28 June 2018.

[3] David S. Brose (1991). Yesterday's river: the archaeology of 10,000 years along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. p. 61. ISBN 9781878600004. Retrieved 28 June 2018.

[Peacock-4] Evan Peacock (2005). Mississippi Archaeology Q & A. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 17. ISBN 9781604736434. Retrieved 28 June 2018.

[5] R. Berle Clay (1976). "Tactics, Strategy, and Operations: The Mississippian System Responds to ITS Environment". Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. 1 (2): 137–163. JSTOR 20707792.

[6] Bruce D. Smith (2014). Mississippian Settlement Patterns: Studies in Archeology. Academic Press. pp. 421–423 & 428–449. ISBN 9781483220246. Retrieved 28 June 2018.

[7] "Ingomar Mound [22-Un-500]". MDAH Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet. Retrieved 23 October 2016.