College students explore origins of SW Ind. mounds

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — With caked mud covering her clothes and raindrops on her glasses, college research student Ashleigh Thompson bailed muddy water Monday morning from the trenches of an excavation site at Angel Mounds State Historic Site.

The Angel Mounds site encompasses 11 mounds and was once a fortified, walled city — home to a people, who followed a way of life which developed in the Mississippi River Valley and spread throughout the Southeastern United States from around A.D. 1100 to 1450.

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