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Little Mulberry Indian Mounds

Coordinates: 34°2′32″N 83°53′13″W / 34.04222°N 83.88694°W / 34.04222; -83.88694
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Parks-Strickland Archeological Complex
One of Little Mulberry mounds within the complex
Little Mulberry Indian Mounds is located in Georgia
Little Mulberry Indian Mounds
Little Mulberry Indian Mounds is located in the United States
Little Mulberry Indian Mounds
Nearest cityDacula, Georgia
Coordinates34°2′32″N 83°53′13″W / 34.04222°N 83.88694°W / 34.04222; -83.88694
Area9.5 acres (3.8 ha)
NRHP reference No.89002034[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 8, 1989

The Little Mulberry Indian Mounds are a series of carefully stacked rock piles located in Little Mulberry Park, Dacula, Georgia. In 1990, architect Michael Garrow counted 200 of these stone mounds while surveying the land ahead of a proposed golf course residential development.[2] The stone piles are typically circular or semicircular in shape. Most of those that have been examined archaeologically have revealed no cultural artifacts beyond the stone structure, while a few have been found to have historical 19th-century artifacts underneath them.

A subset of the area, part of its early identification, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Parks-Strickland Archeological Complex. There continues to be scholarly dispute over the function and significance of the structures,[3] although Native American tribes historically associated with the region claim them to have funerary significance.[2]

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Teegardin, Carrie. The Freelance Star. (1990). Fredericksburg, VA. Retrieved 8/16/2017. Site: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19900504&id=iuQPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zIsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6947,859323
  3. ^ "Newsletter of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, Fall 2003" (PDF). Society for Georgia Archaeology. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.