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Rock Eagle Mound

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Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Rock Eagle Mound
Phone:
+1 706-484-2899

Hours:
Sunday7am - 6pm
Monday7am - 6pm
Tuesday7am - 6pm
Wednesday7am - 6pm
Thursday7am - 6pm
Friday7am - 6pm
Saturday7am - 6pm


Rock Eagle Effigy Mound is an archaeological site in Putnam County, Georgia, U.S. estimated to have been constructed c. 1000 BC to AD 1000 . The earthwork was built up of thousands of pieces of quartzite laid in the mounded shape of a large bird . Although it is most often referred to as an eagle, scholars do not know exactly what type of bird the original builders intended to portray. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its significance. The University of Georgia administers the site. It uses much of the adjoining land for a 4-H camp, with cottages and other buildings, and day and residential environmental education. What prompted the early inhabitants of Middle Georgia, who lived in a time long before the rise of the later Mississippian, Creek and Cherokee cultures, to build these massive effigy mounds is still something of a mystery. They obviously hold ceremonial significance and the Rock Eagle seems to have been expanded from a large dome-shaped central mound.
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