Ingomar Mound

Ingomar Mounds
(22 UN 500)

Stairs leading up Ingomar Mound
Location within Mississippi today
Location	Ingomar, Mississippi,  Union County, Mississippi,  USA
Region	Union County, Mississippi
Coordinates	34°23′50.1″N89°02′57.7″W / 34.397250°N 89.049361°W / 34.397250; -89.049361
History
Founded	200 AD
Abandoned	1800 AD
Cultures	Woodland period, Mississippian culture
Site notes
Architecture
Architectural styles	platform mound
Architectural details	Number of monuments:1
Ingomar Mound
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mississippi Landmark
NRHP reference No.	78001632 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 9, 1978
Designated USMS	September 11, 2002 [2]
Responsible body: The Archaeological Conservancy

Ingomar Mound is the large central mound and sole remaining feature of a ceremonial center of the late Mississippian Period of cultural development. A total of 13 mounds composing the group have been excavated. Believed to be a temple mound, Ingomar is the only structure of the group not overrun by later agriculture and development, thus generally undisturbed when archeologists began studying the complex of mounds. ^[3] At least one of the mounds in the group was a flat-topped burial mound. ^[4] Ingomar is one of the largest such mounds found in the Southeast. ^[5] Ingomar is important because of its potential for the testing of theories about aboriginal settlement pattern hypotheses, such as the Clay's system environments theory ^[6] and Steponaitis' spatial efficiency theory ^{[7] [8]}

Camp area on top of Ingomar Mound

References

1. "National Register of Historic Places". Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
2. "Mississippi Landmarks" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Archives and History. May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
3. Calvin S. Brown (2012). Archeology of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 14–21. ISBN   9781617033490 . Retrieved June 28, 2018.
4. David S. Brose (1991). Yesterday's river: the archaeology of 10,000 years along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. p. 61. ISBN   9781878600004 . Retrieved June 28, 2018.
5. Evan Peacock (2005). Mississippi Archaeology Q & A. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 17. ISBN   9781604736434 . Retrieved June 28, 2018.
6. R. Berle Clay (1976). "Tactics, Strategy, and Operations: The Mississippian System Responds to ITS Environment". Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. 1 (2): 137–163. JSTOR   20707792.
7. Bruce D. Smith (2014). Mississippian Settlement Patterns: Studies in Archeology. Academic Press. pp. 421–423 & 428–449. ISBN   9781483220246 . Retrieved June 28, 2018.
8. "Ingomar Mound [22-Un-500]". MDAH Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet. Retrieved October 23, 2016.