Dr. Phillips, you and this show series are a Treasure to the people and the state of Alabama ! Thank you for all the work you and your team have done over the years and continue to do, further educating people like myself on every aspect of history about Alabama. - Alan Fendley McCalla

So many lives and stories played out here, most of which is lost to time. As a student watching this for Archaeology class, I find this incredibly fascinating! Thank you!

As an aside, an historical plaque in the park in Florala, Alabama on Lake Jackson reads: "Lake Jackson. Andrew Jackson in Seminole War with an army of 1200 troops camped here in May, 1818 enroute westward from Fort Gadsden to subdue maurading Indians abetted by the Spanish at Pensacola. Jackson determined to seize Pensacola and thus altered the course of history on this continent". When I read this plaque it occured to me that that was the kind of Indian I would have wanted to be. A Marauding Indian.

Thank you for educating people on this subject. There were also mounds along the Tennessee river in Guntersville area and others I’m sure.

Way to go Dr Phillips .... One of the best episodes of Discovering Alabama

I am from Fort Walton Beach Fl. There is a burial mound right in Downtown.

I've lived in AL 40 yrs & did not know this. THANK YOU❗️

What a wonderfully thoughtful episode.

I love our states history. ❤️ Roll Tide

@hharvv4245

3 жыл бұрын

just wish other people here respected it. Love the history but not a fan of our culture. Every highway from Birmingham all the way to montgomery is absolutely covered with litter.

@crawwwfishh3284

10 ай бұрын

Do you know how many mounds are under water from building lakes. Greed came before history.

@crawwwfishh3284

10 ай бұрын

@@hharvv4245. Yes they respected it so much 99 percent of those mounds are under water from building lakes. Greed before history.

This video inspired my book, Breaking Dawn by M. E. Carlisle (Amazon/Kindle, paperback).

My first guess about those mounds is that it is smarter to build higher up so that your building doesn't get as wet and so that you can see out over your land or crops better. If the lower land was for crops, the houses being so close by might help deter wildlife grazing at night. Dogs on top of the mounds could also see better from higher up.

@bigbird2240

10 ай бұрын

Also it’s much cooler and more of a breeze just 20 -30 feet off the ground .

"Development is definitely done at the peril of the past." Matthew Gage 9:31

12:03 PLEASE tell me that kid is not carrying some pesticide applicator. 😨 Maybe it's just water for screening sand for objects. 😬

What about the snake effigies on Skeleton Mountain, and throughout the Choccolocco mountain range?

@keithmaxwell2169

2 жыл бұрын

I Don't know about Skeleton Mountain but I have found other Snake Effigies around different places in Alabama

@johndavid8815

Жыл бұрын

I was there the other day.

I wonder if the railroad companies also destroyed the artifacts found inside the mounds?

I know where some Indian mounds are at in Winston county Alabama off of HWY 5.

Well if you ever start excavating the Hamilton mounds let me know since I live in Hamilton because I would be more than willing to volunteer.

@JSMedia38

3 жыл бұрын

You should get in contact with the UA school of archeology, they can put you in contact with the right people if you're serious.

Mounds under tue ten river west of waterloo as well

The Indian legends say they were there when thru arrived

What About The Mound(s) Of Lamar County, Alabama Near The City Of Vernon. It is located near Hells Creek and near the Hightogy Community. Carl M. Thornton Lamar County, Alabama, USA...

@carlthornton3076

2 жыл бұрын

Also there is a Mound in the Moscow Community in Lamar County, Alabama Near the City Of Sulligent. This Mound is/was located near Bogue Creek. Carl M. Thornton Lamar County, Alabama, USA...

I wonder why you haven't mentioned the Indian burial mound in Lillian Alabama. Do you not know of the mound or you just don't want people to know about it. I do know that it is on forever wild land and it was on the Lillian swamp hunting club.

Why is Moundville so perfectly maintained and all the others are mostly destroyed

A new discovery may ne coming soon!

@brittneyworley2744

3 жыл бұрын

Where abouts? Id keep anything i knew away from mainstream archeologists. They have a reputation for making repops and selling the original pieces

@bubbag9952

3 жыл бұрын

@@brittneyworley2744 I've possibly located a indian mound unknow and unexplored....all I'm saying for now.

@kevinmoore9084

3 жыл бұрын

At six and a half minutes they start talking about when people immigrated to America you're only off by a order of magnitude You say 13, 000 well it's actually a 130,000 years 🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡🤬🤬"Humans in California 130,000 Years Ago? Get the Facts" api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/culture/article/mastodons-americas-peopling-migrations-archaeology-science

@Alan-in-Bama

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmoore9084 No...they stated that people had been in America for many Thousands of years. Their statement was about the earliest people immigrating to the Southeast and specifically the Alabama area.

@Ananias03

2 жыл бұрын

@@bubbag9952 i know where a large complex is that has never before been explored as well. East central Alabama

They was darker

Indians and Native Americans are not the same. The Indians are the indigenous Americans not the NA.

And the corps buried them under water. Greed before history.

2K years? It goes further back. The mounds were built by light skinned read haired 8 to 12 foot peoples.

@phonehome7349

9 ай бұрын

😂

Moundville is too obvious looking . I think it was made by modern people as a replica

I think the mounds in moundville are fake and we’re made by some professionals that wanted a site to study and raise money

@skateboardist1686

3 күн бұрын

May I ask why you think that. I won’t argue I just want to know what you know