Shiloh Mounds Archeological Testing Project
Shiloh National Military Park - 2001

2001 Project Summary | 2001 Trip Report | return to Shiloh index page

Daily Events  • Remote Sensing • Project Photographs
3D Map of Site (ongoing) • Project Crew  • Project Volunteers
Project Visitors • Archeology in Motion • Research Design

From July 9th to September 6, 2001, the National Park Service's Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) conducted initial archeological testing at Mound A of the Shiloh Mound Complex. This mound group located at Shiloh National Military Park (SHIL) was occupied from ca. A.D. 1000 to 1350, by Mississippian peoples. The site includes a number of mounds around a plaza, on a high bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. The community was fortified, with an encircling palisade. 

The goals of the project were to examine the internal structure of Mound A and adjoining areas of the site near the bluff edge that are eroding into the Tennessee River. This initial excavation was one of the largest ever conducted on a national park in the Southeast, and further analysis is expected to contribute significantly to our understanding of the prehistory of the region.

This web site will be updated as the project goes on, presenting what we have been doing and what has been found on a day by day basis. Currently, the crew is in the laboratory analysing the materials and data gathered from the initial field excavations.

Learn about the 1999 Civil War-related investigations conducted at Shiloh National Military Park using remote sensing.