The Moundville Archaeological Museum is an

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

park and

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Moundville, Alabama Moundville is a town in Hale and Tuscaloosa counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It was incorporated on December 22, 1908. From its incorporation until the 1970 census, it was wholly within Hale County. At the 2010 census the population was 2,4 ...

The museum houses artifacts and displays exhibits on over 60 years of archaeological excavations and investigations in the

Moundville Archaeological Park Moundville Archaeological Site, also known as the Moundville Archaeological Park, is a Mississippian culture archaeological site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County, Alabama, Hale County, near the modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Extensi ...

. The Jones Archaeological Museum located in the park was opened on May 16, 1939, and was initially known as the "Mound State Monument." The museum was originally designed with two wings dedicated to burials which was closed in 1989 and a central section with exhibits displaying artifacts recovered from the site. The previous burial wings were replaced with a theater and several exhibition halls. The park and museum are part of the

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Museums, which also include the

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, Discovering Alabama,

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, Office of Archaeological Research and

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.Moundville Archaeological Museum — An Archaeological Sketch of Moundville

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* Native American museums in Alabama Museums established in 1939 Archaeological museums in Alabama Museums in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Archaeological parks 1939 establishments in Alabama {{Alabama-museum-stub

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