Etowah Indian Mounds

We did see a lot of things along the way that kind of sparked my interest.

And, you know, Moundville was one of them, Winterville Mounds in Mississippi, the Etowah Mounds in Georgia.

I've been to Rock Eagle Effigy, which is an effigy in the middle of the woods in Georgia.

It's like, you don't even know about some of these places until you get to a local spot.

And so what I'm getting at here is that I think that the estimates of 2 million people, Native Americans that lived here is not even close.

I think, you know, based on Dowdy's estimates, there were probably 50 million, 100 million people that lived in the United States at the time.

who were building these mounds because you got to think about places like uh you know cahokia or serpent mound these places are tall like well cahokia is like 100 feet tall you know um etowah mounds are 60 feet tall now you got to think about the manpower and the planning that it takes to to build these things and it's not going to take a week or two is something that's going to take a hundred years.

So you're talking about generational planning and what about hurricanes and, you know, volcanic eruptions and tornadoes and all the other storms that happen.

Mound construction appears to have resumed around...

A.D. 1100, when the inhabitants of this area were closely connected with the peoples of the Etowah site—and I didn't pronounce—I didn't check to see how to pronounce that one—near Cartersville, Georgia.

So I do apologize.

So the Etowah, I think? I'm not looking— Alabamans? Alabamians? Yeah, I know.

What is interesting is Wikipedia says this.

The Chakalaka Creek Archaeological Complex near Boiling Spring, Alabama, contains the remains of at least one temple and three burial mounds and is an important piece of the history of early Middle Woodland period inhabitants.