Toqua Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Toqua Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Toqua () was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern Woodlands. Toqua was the site of a substantial ancestral town that thrived during the Mississippian period (1000-1600 CE). Toqua had a large earthwork platform mound built by the town's Mississippian-era inhabitants, in addition to a second, smaller mound. The site's Mississippian occupation may have been recorded by the Spanish as the village of Tali, which was documented in 1540 by the Hernando de Soto expedition.Charles M. Hudson, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 207-215. It was later known as the Overhill Cherokee town Toqua, and this name was applied to the archeological site. Read more on Wikipedia
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