Hands-On Archaeology Experience at Chucalissa
Archeology learning in action at Chucalissa - the hands on room was a definite hit! Using real pottery and stone artifacts, they sifted and measured and dug and catalogued for an hour. It even had you match up artifacts with their purpose.
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With two Native American- mounds and a replica house, this site would have been home to a city of about 1,000. This is our fifth mound site and definitely the smallest. It was good for the kids to see that not all of the Mississippian people lived in big cities like at Cahokia.
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The site was actually uncovered in the 60s when the city was building the black segregated park and swimming pool - a tie in with our more modern history studies.
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The C.H. Nash Museum is part of the University of Memphis archeology program and a great experience for my oldest archeology loving kid - though she’s much rather be looking at Grecian artifacts in Greece😉
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Add this to your Memphis travel list ❤️ @chucalissa