0 Ocmulgee National Monument

 Ocmulgee National Monument is a historical and archaeological monument of the indigenous cultures of the southeastern United States. It also includes artificial hills since the culture, created more than a thousand years. Among them are the Great Temple and many other ceremonial hills, including the burial hill and defense embankments. These artificial hills show incredible art culture misisipskata people who have mastered special engineering techniques.

Ocmulgee National Monument is located east of the city of Macon in Georgia. At this point people have lived more than ten thousand years. Ocmulgee National Monument presdstavlyava park area 2.84 km, which is located on the east bank of the Ocmulgee river.

Many different prehistoric cultures have inhabited the place is known as the Macon Plateau at the Fall Line, where the hills of the Piedmont meet with Atlantic Coastal Plain.

 Ocmulgee National Monument also includes hills Lamar Mounds, which is located about three miles away from Macon. Access for tourists who want to explore the hill Lamar is limited. Ocmulgee National Monument is open to visitors every day except Christmas and New Year.

Here is a visitor center where tourists from around the world come to see the museum of local Native American cultures. The park has several walking paths that provide great views. To the visitors' center has reconstructed Indian dugout.

Before about ten thousand years in the Ocmulgee River Valley lived primitive hunters who inhabited this place just before the Europeans. In the 900 to 1150 in this place there was a society that has created a hierarchical social structure and it is mostly good farmers. They built a small town, which consisted of rectangular wooden buildings, made of upright wooden stakes high vertical, created large pyramid temple hills and natural burial hill.

Round Indian dugouts had played the role of space for gatherings and special ceremonies. At that time people in this place are engaged in the manufacture of containers, care for plants such as corn, beans, zucchini and other plant species planted near the river where land is extremely fertile.

Once the largest ceremonial center is dilapidated due to unknown reasons, its suburbs have arisen new settlements of the late culture - the so-called culture Lamar culture. That these people had met in 1540 traveler Hernando De Soto. Hernando de Soto describes in his chronicles the people of Lamar culture, which are direct descendants of the Cherokee, Yuchi and other yugoiznochni tribes.

Since then, impressive hills provoked astonishment and admiration of travelers. In the early twentieth century in the Ocmulgee were conducted several restoration works, which led to the modern form of the national monument. In 1936 President Franklin Roosevelt signed a proclamation for the founding of the National Monument Ocmulgee, by requiring the Office of National Park Service to care and protect the land known as the Old Ocmulgee Fields.