Word: kolomoki
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...Kolomoki Mounds State Park in southwestern Georgia gets its name from several Indian mounds, relics of a forgotten people who lived 600 years ago. One of them, recently excavated by Dr. William H. Sears of the University of Georgia, is called "Mound D" by archeologists. What the Indians called it may never be known, but the tale of its building must have scared many generations of prehistoric children. Mound D was the scene of the goriest funeral ever held in the state of Georgia...
Ancient Point Four. About 1300 A.D., Sears decided, a thriving village surrounded the site of the mound. Its 1,000 inhabitants lived around a ten-acre plaza. At one end was a low earthen pyramid with a temple of some sort on top. The Kolomoki people were prosperous; they raised corn, beans and squash, probably imported at some earlier period from the high civilizations of Central or South America...
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