Mound E

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, archaeological excavations started to be performed in burial mounds D and E at the Kolomoki site, but mound E had the most pottery located in it (Sears 1953). The pottery found in the mounds included effigy figurines of humans, panthers, fishes, deer, and various birds which was very unusual for archaeologists because they did not think that the Swift Creek culture were able to mold pottery into these 3-D vessels (Pluckhahn 2007).
Mound E
Mound E was a huge burial mound where the Swift Creek buried the natives in their group as they died. The graves of several individuals were excavated, and grave goods were plentiful buried alongside their loved ones in the mound (Pluckhahn 2015). Archaeologists soon came to discover that they Swift Creek buried their loved ones with very sentimental objects, which included large amounts of pottery (Pluckhahn 2015). By the Swift Creek culture burying pottery and …show more content…
Coweeta Creek site is a Cherokee Indian site very famous for Cherokee Indian pottery style on how they shaped the rims on their vessels (Wilson and Rodning 2002). The pottery excavated from the site had extremely different rim forms that were very small and narrow (Wilson and Rodning 2002). This site has provided archaeologists better outlooks on the older ways of the Cherokee Indian traditions that they did not think the Cherokee were using during this time period (Wilson and Rodning 2002). There were several townhouses located on the creek at Coweeta, and the pottery accumulation consisted of a minimum of 170 vessels, in which 142 of the vessels were found inside the townhouses (Wilson and Rodning 2002). According to Wilson and Rodning (2002), the other 28 vessels come from the village area located around the creek itself. Jars and bowls were the main vessels found at the site when it was