Southeastern Archaeology, December 1st, 2005
Pinson Mounds in west Tennessee and nearby Middle Woodland centers in north Mississippi have potential astronomical alignments. These alignments are discussed and used to support the idea that these large mound sites were corporate-ceremonial centers for people living in small, multi-household settlements, whose subsistence included plants of the Eastern Agricultural Complex.
I am anxious to have this mound examined as from its position. 1 am of the opinion it was built for the king's observatory whence to overlook his vast city. E. H. Randle, 1875. (In Mainfort 1986:8)
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