Angel Mounds State Historic Site is located on the Ohio River in Vanderburgh County, Indiana adjacent to Evansville. It is part of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Indiana State Museums and Historic Sites. It is one of 16 state museums and historic sites in Indiana. It is named after the Angel Family who settled in this location along the Ohio River in the early 1800s. Ohio River viewed from Liberty Hill in Ripley, Ohio. ... Vanderburgh County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... For other places named Evansville see Evansville (disambiguation). ... The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is the agency of the state of Indiana charged with maintaining natural areas such as state parks, state forests, recreation areas, etc. ... The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ... Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ...

For over a thousand years, Southwestern Indiana was home to many Native Americans. Today, Angel Mounds State Historic Site is nationally recognized as one of the best preserved prehistoric Native American sites in the United States. From 1100 to 1450 A. D., a town on this site was home to people of the Middle Mississippian culture, who engaged in hunting and farming on the rich bottom lands of the Ohio River. Several thousand people lived in this town protected by a stockade made of wattle and daub. Because Angel Mounds was a chiefdom (the home of the chief) it was the regional center of a large community that grew outward from it for many miles. An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Photo by Edward S. Curtis. ... The term prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is usually used to describe the period before written history became available. ... Events William II of England dies in a hunting accident - Henry I becomes King of England King Henry I proclaims the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of a constitution. ... Events March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 - Battle of Formigny. ... The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 900 to 1500 A.D., varying a bit regionally. ... A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls made of logs placed side by side vertically with the tops sharpened to provide some security. ... Categories: Stub | Construction ... A chiefdom is any community led by an individual known as a chief. ... Chief can refer to : Paramount chief is the highest political leader in a region or country typically administered with a chief-based system. ...

This settlement was the largest known town of its time in Indiana, but the Mississippian people eventually deserted it. No one today knows why. Fortunately, preservation and archaeological efforts at Angel Mounds State Historic Site offer a glimpse into this highly developed culture of the distant past. For 60 years, this living museum has told the story of one pre-contact Native American culture on the Ohio River. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...

External links

• Angel Mounds website