 Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site | |
  Location in Alabama today | |
| Alternative name | Mound at Fort Toulouse – Fort Jackson Park, Pakana |
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| Location | Elmore County,Alabama, USA |
| Region | Central Alabama |
| Coordinates | 32°30′14″N86°15′29″W / 32.50400°N 86.25810°W /32.50400; -86.25810 |
| History | |
| Cultures | South Appalachian Mississippian culture |
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| Architectural details | Number of monuments: 1 |
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TheTaskigi Mound orMound at Fort Toulouse – Fort Jackson Park (1EE1) is anarchaeological site from theSouth Appalachian MississippianBig Eddy phase. It is located on a 40 feet (12 m) bluff at the confluence of theCoosa andTallapoosa rivers where they meet to form theAlabama River, near the town ofWetumpka inElmore County,Alabama.[1]
The mound and village area were constructed during the prehistoricMississippian culture period. The site features include a village with a centralplaza area, a rectangularplatform mound, theborrow pit where the fill for the mound was quarried, and a surrounding woodenpalisade.
Thepottery of theBig Eddy phase (1450 - 1560) is related to the pottery of theMoundville III phase (1450-1550 CE) of the largeparamount chiefdom at theMoundville site located to the northwest of Tuskigi on theBlack Warrior River. Moundville was being abandoned during this period and theBig Eddy phase people are thought to be intrusive to the Coosa River area, and had originated at Moundville. The Big Eddy phase has been tentatively identified as theprotohistoricProvince of Tuskaloosa encountered by theHernando de Soto expedition in 1540, located downriver from theCoosa province.[1][2]
The site was occupied in thehistoric period by theAlabama andMuscogee (Creek) villages, named respectivelyPakana andTaskigi, from which the site takes its name. It is unknown what the original inhabitants and builders of the mound called the site.[1][3][4]
The site is preserved as part of theFort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site and is one of the locations included on theUniversity of Alabama Museums "Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail".[1]
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