Jere Shine site
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| location = Montgomery County, Alabama, {{flag|USA}}
| region = Central Alabama
| built = 1400 CE
| abandoned = 1550 CE
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| cultures = South Appalachian Mississippian culture
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| architectural_styles = platform mound
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The Jere Shine site (1MT6) is an archaeological site on the Tallapoosa River near its confluence with the Coosa River in modern Montgomery County, Alabama. Based on comparison of archaeological remains and pottery styles, scholars believe that it was most likely occupied from 1400–1550 CE by people of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture (a regional variation of the Mississippian culture).{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/seac/outline/05-mississippian/index.htm|title=Southeastern Prehistory:Mississippian and Late Prehistoric Period|access-date=2012-04-10|publisher=National Park Service}}
Shine I and II phases
Jere Shine is the type site for the Shine I phase (?-1400 CE), and the Lamar culture Shine II phase (1400-1550 CE) in the lower Tallapoosa River region. The site was the largest settlement associated with the Shine II phase and is thought by archaeologists to have been the main site of a chiefdom.{{cite book |title=The Forgotten centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704 |last=Hudson |first=Charles M. |author2=Carmen Chaves Tesser |year=1994 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |location=Athens |isbn=978-0-8203-1473-0 |pages=379–381}}{{cite book| editor1 = Williams, Mark | editor2= Shapiro, Gary |title= Lamar Archaeology : Mississippian chiefdoms in the deep south |year=1990 | publisher= University of Alabama Press | page= 50 }} The Shine II phase has been tentatively identified with the protohistoric Province of Talisi encountered by the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1540.{{Cite journal | journal = Journal of Alabama Archaeology | volume= 62 |date = 2016| title = Late Mississippian/Protohistoric Ceramic Chronology and Cultural Change in the Lower Tallapoosa and Alabama River Valleys | author1= Jenkins, Ned J. | author2 = Sheldon, Craig T. | url= https://www.academia.edu/33924571 }}
The {{convert|35|acre|1|adj=on}} site contains five platform mounds and numerous shell middens. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1978.
See also
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=hLid4WS75lgC&dq=Jere+Shine+Site&pg=PA107 Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power Cameron B. Wesson]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=dFNI9935DNwC&dq=Jere+Shine&pg=PA207 Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South By Robbie Franklyn Ethridge, Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall]
{{Mississippian and related cultures}}
{{NRHP in Montgomery County, Alabama}}
Category:South Appalachian Mississippian culture
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Alabama
Category:Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Category:Former populated places in Alabama
Category:Geography of Montgomery County, Alabama
Category:Archaeological sites in Alabama