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Thursday, August 07, 2003

Dining on the mounds
VIVI ABRAMS
News staff writer

MOUNDVILLE - On the shore of the Black Warrior River 800 years ago, fine dining meant a meal of peregrine falcon, seafood and the juiciest cuts of venison.

The less blessed ate corn meal, raccoon and deer stew.

The differences of the social classes at Moundville, a Mississippian American Indian civilization in west-central Alabama, are the subject of a July paper published in American Antiquity journal. By examining food remains from digs at the site from the past 10 years, researchers are putting together a clearer picture of life on the mounds. [...]
Mmmm! Gotta love that falcon meat!


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