TheIrene Mound is a historical site in Georgia associated with theMississippian culture.

The Irene Mound site was located on the western bluff of the Savannah River. Its location is about 5 miles fromSavannah city center.^[1] Pipemakers Creek ran along one side and a ditch enclosed the other.^[2] It previously consisted of a collection of temple mounds and residences, a burial mound and a rotunda. It was about 2.4 hectares in size,^[3] and is the largest Mississippian site on the Georgia coast.^[4]

The site went through seven phases of construction while it was occupied, between 1,150 AD and 1,300 AD.^[5] It is believed to have housed the local chief and his family, no more than 30 or 40 people total.^[6] Different types of ware, including cordmarked, stamped and burnished ware.^[5] Food waste likeshell middens were also found there.^[3]

TheWorks Progress Administration,Chatham County commissioners and Savannah chamber of commerce organized an archaeological project which excavated the Irene Mound site between 1937 and 1940.^[7] Many women, especially black women, took part in the excavations of the Irene Mound site in the 1930s.^[8]Gussie White is one of the most prominent examples of these women archaeologists.

• South Appalachian Mississippian culture
• Archaeological sites in North Carolina
• Indigenous topics of the Southeastern Woodlands
• Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America
• Native American architecture

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