Saul's Mound PHOTO: Mark Norton  Pinson Mounds  For several
hundred years, maybe about 200 BC until about 750 A.D., what is
believed to have been the tallest man-made object in the land we
now call the United States?  Answer: Saul's Mound, at the Pinson
Mounds State Archaeological Park.  Pinson Mounds is in Madison
County, about eight miles south of Jackson. Today it is an out-
of-the-way place. But there is every reason to believe that at
one time this was one of the most important places in North
America. We're going to show you around. But first we need to
give you some background. The Archeofest event at Pinson Mounds
"Prehistoric" refers to things that took place before the people
and societies referred to had a written language. Pinson Mounds
contains the remains of a Native American community that existed
in prehistoric time and was abandoned long before European
settlers arrived in Tennessee. People have discovered the
remains of Native American mound communities all over Tennessee.
Most of these mound