Officials emphasize that Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site will remain open to the public and school groups. Visitors can watch a 15-minute film, learn about the Indigenous people who lived ...

Dating to 1000 A.D., Etowah grew from a modest village into a fortified regional capital, ultimately serving as a home to several thousand Native Americans, according to the site’s historic guide.

In the 1960s, hundreds of the found artifacts and funerary items were displayed at the Etowah museum. Human remains were removed from the displays in subsequent years but never returned to tribes.

Butler said some 400 people were disinterred from the funeral mound at Etowah over the course of archaeology there, plus some 187,000 related artifacts, the Department of Natural Resources estimates.

Happy Indigenous People’s day Photo I took of the Temple Mound (Mound A) at the Etowah Mounds site in Cartersville Georgia, USA. A thousand years ago this place would have been one of the ...

GEORGIA (Clayton News Daily) — The Georgia Department of Natural Resources will soon begin returning artifacts to culturally affiliated tribes from Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site in ...