Angel phase
Angel Chiefdom/Angel Phase Taarsite? Akansa? | |||||||||||||
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| c. <1050–c. 1450 | |||||||||||||
Symbol found on Angel pottery, characteristic of their religion, their negative-painted pottery style, and possibly their government. | |||||||||||||
Likely extent of the Angel Mounds Chiefdom in the Early 14th Century | |||||||||||||
| Status | Mississippian-culture micoship | ||||||||||||
| Location | Confluences of the Wabash, Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Angel Mounds | ||||||||||||
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| Demonym | Taarsite? Akansa? | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
| Great Sun | |||||||||||||
| Historical era | Mississippian culture | ||||||||||||
• Established | c. <1050 | ||||||||||||
• Founding of the Angel Mounds Site | c. 1050 | ||||||||||||
• End of significant occupation of Angel Mounds | c. 1450 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 1450 | ||||||||||||
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The Angel phase or Angel Mounds Chiefdom describes a 300–400-year old Mississippian polity in the central portions of the United States of America. Angel phase archaeological sites date from c. 1050 - 1350 CE and are located on the northern and southern sides of the Ohio River in southern Indiana, such as National Historic Landmark Angel Mounds near present-day Evansville; northwestern Kentucky, with Wickliffe Mounds and the Tolu Site; and Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois. Additional sites range from the mouth of Anderson River in Perry County, Indiana, west to the mouth of the Wabash in Posey County, Indiana.