A palisaded ceremonial city of some thirty platform mounds ringing a plaza on the Black Warrior River — one of the largest Mississippian centres in the Deep South.
After ~1350 commoners drifted away and Moundville became a sparsely-peopled necropolis; by 1450 it was largely emptied as people dispersed up the valley.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Moundville — the shape you scrub through changes in 1100 · 1251.
The principal archaeological study of the Moundville chiefdom on the Black Warrior River.
An accessible overview of the Moundville center and its rise and decline.