• Be a site that can provide nationally significant archeological information

Bottle Creek Site, AL

The Bottle Creek site is a major Mississippian mound complex of the Pensacola culture (A.D. 1250-1550). It functioned as a social/political/religious/trade center for the Mobile Delta region and the central Gulf Coast. Bottle Creek is the largest Mississippian mound complex on the Gulf Coast. It contains eighteen mounds plus various associated non-mound habitation areas, archeological deposits, and a potential precontact canal or moat. Archeological information at the Bottle Creek Site is a key to understanding the history and culture of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in late precontact/protohistoric times. The site served as the focal point for interaction between the Pensacola culture and other Mississippian culture areas along the coast and in the interior. Being situated near the intersection of major east-west trails and north-south water routes, Bottle Creek was in a unique position to affect the course of history throughout the Southeastern United States, making the archeological information here of national significance.

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