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 ...

The Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site is a 54-acre site that was home to Native Americans between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D., and remaining features include six mounds, a plaza, and a defensive ditch.

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.

Cartersville’s Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site will host a “Star Gazing at the Mounds” event tonight from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., offering visitors the chance to watch the sunset and moon ...

The Etowah basin was one of 10 large centers of Indian life in western Georgia, said Lewis Larson, the state archeologist and one of the members of the team that excavated the burial mound.

CHICAGO — A federal appeals court panel in Chicago has upheld the conviction of a southern Indiana man accused of selling artifacts looted from an ancient American Indian burial mound. A three ...

He wrote, “There were no ‘Indian mounds’ in this part of North America, and his do not look like those which are in the other parts of the U.S. either.

The area was home to several thousand people between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D. Today, the 54-acre historic site protects six earthen mounds, a grass plaza, village site, borrow pits and defensive ditch.