Aztalan Pyramid Mounds: Ancient Amaraca in Wisconsin.

Описание: The information below came from the State Park guide.
Aztalan is Wisconsin's most intensively studied archeological site that, in many ways, remains a mystery. Located in Jefferson County Wisconsin along the Crawfish River at the edge of traditional Ho Chunk and Potawatomi territories, which now is preserved as a State Park.

The name Aztalan is a misnomer that originated in 1837, when Nathan Hyer inferred this to be the legendary homeland of the Aztec civilization.

2,500 years ago, the native culture lived in wigwams and built earthen mounds and sculpted conical mounds. They used clay-fired pottery and cultivated local plants. Around 1,000 years ago, the late Woodland people established a community along this same part of the river. Here, they adopted the bow and arrow technology, which allowed them greater hunts, population increase, and a year-long settlement. Fast forward at a short time ahead, and the Cahokian Mississipian culture came up the river system and found the are. Here, the Late Woodland and Mississippian cultures lived in unison and shared building styles and cultural traditions, building a massively fortified town.

The Cahokian culture on the Mississippi River around 1175 AD began its long decline, and the Aztalan community dispersed. The French came in the 1600s and the fur trade. In 1833, there was the Treaty of Chicago. The Aztalan area became an official town about 1836ish while rediscovering the ancient site in the fall of 1835. In 1964, Aztalan was designated as a National Historic Landmark.

Let me know if a Part two is wanted. There is the museum, and the princess mound was off-site from the park itself.

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