Aztalan State Park

Aztalan State Park is one of Wisconsin's most important archaeological sites. It contains an ancient Middle-Mississippian village and ceremonial complex that existed between A.D. 1000 and 1300. The site was rediscovered in 1835. In 1850 Increase A. Lapham investigated the site. It became a state park in 1952, a National Landmark in 1964 and listed in the National Registry of Historic Places in 1966. The occupants of Aztalan built large, flat-topped pyramid shaped mounds and a stockade around their village. Music by Malignant Choir. Slideshow by John Wanserski.

Excerpts from the Antiquities of Wisconsin by Increase A. Lapham, 1855 (electronic edition: http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Antiquities/).

For more background see the excellent book by Robert A. Birmingham and Lynne G. Goldstein, "Aztalan; Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town."
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/highlights/archives/2006/01/solving_the_mys.asp

Or view this other video provided by the Friends of Aztalan State Park.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRN3Fkuttv0

Friends of Aztalan State Park
http://xyezsite.com/aztalan/aztalan.htm

My Wisconsin Space
http://mywisconsinspace.com/

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[megdidit]

thanks! every time I've driven by on the way to Mwke I haven't had time to check it out, now I feel like I've finally kinda "been there"!

[jjwanser]

Hi,

Thanks for subscribing to my YouTube Channel. Wikipedia:

"The Ocooch Mountains is the Native American name given to the a portion of the Driftless Region falling within southwest Wisconsin roughly between Spring Green to the east and Viroqua on the west. The region contains heights ranging from 600 to 1500 feet.[1]

The area was originally inhabited by the Sauk people called the Ocooch, but later settled by Scandinavian immigrants".

P.S. Your channel is very interesting.

[JHOVIS]

Thanks for posting. I discovered Aztalan on p 289 of "1491" an outstanding book on the history of the Americas prior to 1492. With a home on the Rock River I wondered "could it be?" when I saw on the map an un-named river descending from Aztalan SW to the Mississippi. Your video confirms that the Aztalan residents may have canoed past my forested site as they traded goods at Cahokia.