![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1930s during the Great Depression, treasure hunters bought the rights to tunnel into Craig Mound-the second-largest mound on the site-to mine it for artifacts. Spiro was a major western outpost of Mississippian culture, which dominated the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries for centuries. The modern town of Spiro developed approximately seven miles to the south.Ä«etween the ninth and fifteenth centuries, the local indigenous people created a powerful religious and political center, culturally linked to the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex identified by anthropologists as the Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere (MIIS). The 80-acre site is located within a floodplain on the southern side of the Arkansas River. Spiro Mounds ( 34 LF 40) is an archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma that remains from an indigenous Indian culture that was part of the major northern Caddoan Mississippian culture. Engraved whelk shell from Spiro Mounds depicting a falcon warrior ![]()
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