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| map_dot_label = Port Gibson, Mississippi>Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, {{flag|USA}}| region = Claiborne County, Mississippi| built = | abandoned = Plaquemine culture#Chronology>Foster Phase| cultures = Plaquemine culture| event = | excavations = 1936, 1951, 1963| archaeologists = Charles F. Bohannon| architectural_styles = | architectural_details =| notes = Responsible body: State of Mississippi| designation1 = | designation1_offname = | designation1_type = | designation1_criteria = | designation1_date = | delisted1_date = | designation1_partof = | designation1_number = | designation1_free1name = | designation1_free1value = | designation1_free2name = | designation1_free2value = | designation1_free3name = | designation1_free3value = | designation2 = | designation2_offname = | designation2_type = | designation2_criteria = | designation2_date = | delisted2_date = | designation2_partof = | designation2_number = | designation2_free1name = | designation2_free1value = | designation2_free2name = | designation2_free2value = | designation2_free3name = | designation2_free3value = | precolumbian = yes }}Mangum Mound Site (22 CB 584) is an archaeological site of the Plaquemine culture in Claiborne County, Mississippi. It is located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway.WEB,www.natcheztracetravel.com/natchez-trace-mississippi/vicksburg-port-gibson-ms/186-mangum-mound.html, Mangum Mound Natchez Trace, 2011-10-18, Two very rare Mississippian culture repoussé copper plates have been discovered during excavations of the site. The site was used as a burial mound during the Foster Phase of the culture (1350 to 1500 CE) and is believed to have been abandoned before the 1540 expedition of Hernando de Soto.BOOK, Natchez Trace, R. C. Bildart, March 1996, Farcountry Press, 978-1-56037-092-5,books.google.com/books?id=OFHWJR_OZScC&q=mangum+mound&pg=PA29, 28,

Description

(File:Mangum plate HRoe 2014.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Reconstruction of the plate found at Mangum)The burial mound was first investigated in 1936 by its owner Spurgeon C. Mangum, a farmer. Mangum found human remains, various pottery fragments belonging to the Plaquemine culture, chunkey stones, and three fragments of a repoussé copper plate with an avian design similar to other plates found throughout the American Midwest and Southeast. These portray the Birdman motif important to the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC).JOURNAL, The Mangum Plate, American Antiquity, 18, 65–68, 1, July 1952, 10.2307/276247, 276247, Cotter, John L., The site underwent a series of test excavations in April 1951 as part of the Natchez Trace Park Survey. During these excavations, twelve extended burials and possibly one bundled burial were found.BOOK, Patricia Galloway, Galloway, Patricia, Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 (Indians of the Southeast), University of Nebraska Press, 284,books.google.com/books?id=2HVOImebydMC&q=Mangum+copper+plate&pg=PA284, 978-0-8032-7070-1, 1995, The site was excavated in 1963 for the National Park Service by archaeologist Charles F. Bohannon. Bohannon and his team found the burials of numerous individuals. One individual, believed to have been a woman in her late 30s, possessed markings on her bones which suggested to investigators that she suffered from multiple myeloma.JOURNAL, Prehistoric multiple myeloma, Morse, Dan F., Dan Morse (archaeologist), R. C., Dailey, Jennings, Bunn, 1749372, 4594853, 50, 4, Bull N Y Acad Med, 447–58, 1974, Bohannon excavated the remains of eighty-four individuals, of which more than half were bundled burials. Some of the bundles seemed little more than disarticulated piles of bones, and Bohannon came to believe they were earlier burials that had been moved to make way for new extended burials. Another copper plate was also found during these excavations.

See also

• Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley

References

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External links

• Recommendations for mound maintenance and visitor use and access of the Natchez Trace Parkway Mounds
• UM Museum of Anthropology

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