Artists conception of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundville_Archaeological_Site" class="extiw" title="en:Moundville Archaeological Site">Moundville Site</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missisippian_culture" class="extiw" title="en:Missisippian culture">Mississippian culture</a> site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County, Alabama. The site was the political and ceremonial center of a paramount chiefdom polity between the 1000 to 1500 CE. The site encompasses 185 acres , consisting of 29 platform mounds around a rectangular plaza and surrounded by a protective bastioned palisade. All rights held by the artist, Herb Roe© 2020.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Heironymous_Rowe" title="User:Heironymous Rowe">Herb Roe</a>
CC BY-SA 4.0
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>