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Friends and colleagues: St. Louis is not the only American city that sits
atop the ruins of an earlier civilization.  This week we take our audience
down the Mississippi River to another such location in *Welcome to
Chucalissa*, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web
site, *The Archaeology Channel* (http://www.archaeologychannel.org).

Located in Memphis, Tennessee, the Chucalissa prehistoric site represents
the widespread Mississippian Culture.  Founded initially around A.D. 1000,
Chucalissa village reached its peak around 1500 with the construction of
large platform mounds around a central plaza.  Part of a complex society and
supported by farming and natural foods, the Native American people of this
site traded throughout much of the Midwest and South.  Since its rediscovery
in 1940, the site has become an education center for the University of
Memphis through the C. H. Nash Museum.

This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment.  We
urge you to support this public service by participating in our Membership (
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and Underwriting (
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml) programs.  Only with your
help can we continue and enhance our nonprofit public-education and
visitor-supported programming.  We also welcome new content partners as we
reach out to the world community.

Please forward this message to others who may be interested.

Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org

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Meara Butler

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Archaeological Legacy Institute List Serve Coordinator