Mound country first: Pinson, Chucalissa, Old Stone Fort
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenDisputed: argued, often by a hostile witness
Year: 1000 · Places: Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Gulf Coast, Europe
SUMMARYMound country first: Pinson, Chucalissa, Old Stone Fort (Nov 8, 2026; TANASI line research)
RECORD (Tennessee Encyclopedia, "Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park," Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Mary L. Kwas)"at least twelve mounds," five of them large rectangular platform mounds; "Sauls Mound, at 72 feet," the second-tallest mound in the United States; Middle Woodland, "ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 400"; the Twin Mounds dated "ca. A.D. 100"; about "four hundred acres"; it "was not built by a single small village or group of villages," with ritual visitors from as far as southern Georgia and Louisiana
RECORD (Tennessee Encyclopedia, "Chucalissa Village," Carroll Van West)people lived there "over a period of three thousand years"; first permanent Mississippian town "probably ca. A.D. 1000"; mounds built "from approximately 1000 to 1400 A.D."; town "arranged around a central plaza dominated by a large ceremonial mound"; "Workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) discovered the site during the park's initial development in 1939."
RECORD (Wikipedia, "Chucalissa," citing the NRHP/NHL nomination, 1993)the name "means 'abandoned house' in Chickasaw"; "Walls phase mound and plaza complex," possibly De Soto's "Quizquiz."
RECORD (Tennessee Dept. of Environment and Conservation, "Old Stone Fort State Park")the enclosure "originates in the Middle Woodland period of regional prehistory (ca. 100 BCE – 500 CE)"; "today the site is understood to present an ancient Native American ritual enclosure"; "No archaeological evidence identified to date supports" a fort; older guesses named "Spanish explorers, ancient giants, Norse, Welsh, Romans."
PATTERNthe same lost-race guesses (Welsh, Romans, giants) were pinned on Tennessee's earthworks as on Cahokia (P169, P170); the state's own page now says Native builders
DISPUTEDCCC find year 1939 (Tennessee Encyclopedia) vs 1938 (Wikipedia)
LENS (WW9)TENNESSEE WAS MOUND COUNTRY FIRST; the builders were the aboriginals, not a lost race
OPENChucalissa main-mound height and Old Stone Fort wall length/height (not in sources opened); Chickasaw Nation statement on Chucalissa descent. Connects: P169, P170, P865.