A South Appalachian Mississippian ceremonial and political center on the Ocmulgee River at Macon, Georgia — its Great Temple Mound, an earth lodge, a burial mound, and defensive trenches were raised by organized labor beginning c. 900 CE, one of the earliest fully Mississippian mound centers in the Southeast.
The Macon Plateau center was largely abandoned by the mid-1100s; centuries later a distinct Mississippian community re-emerged nearby at the Lamar site (c. 1350-1600), but the original political center did not persist continuously through that gap.
Site-specific excavation synthesis of the Macon Plateau Mississippian mound center by the archaeologists who worked it.