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Prairie outside Town Creek Indian Mound

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Creator
David Walbert
Date created
November 6, 2007
Location
North Carolina
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This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use

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  • Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 5.5)

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Photograph of tall prairie grasses with a Town Creek structure in the background.

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The tall grasses growing outside the palisade of Town Creek Indian Mound approximate the area’s native prairie. When the town was inhabited by Indians of the Pee Dee culture, around the eleventh century, it was probably surrounded by this kind of vegetation. In the background, the major temple sits atop an earthen mound.