Ocmulgee

The Ocmulgee Mounds commemorate the 17,000 years of habitation of the Macon area. The people who lived here migrated at the end of the ice-age when warmer weather led them south-ward. Around 2500 BCE, pottery shards started appearing in the area. These people would use plant matter in their pottery which would rot away or burn when placed in fire, leaving wormholes throughout it.The mounds were probably built in the early Mississippian Period when people began to use the fertile floodplain to plant crops. Their society remained there and became known as the Muscogee tribe until their culture was obliterated by white, gold-hungry European males, as usual.