Volunteer First-Person Interpreter, Greenville
ORGANIZATION: Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Winterville Mounds Park and Museum
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Purpose:
To provide visitors with information that will enrich their visit to Winterville Mounds Park and Museum (WM) by restaging a historical event or portraying a person or a prototypical event/person important to the interpretation of this prehistoric Native American site
Volunteers research and conduct living history interpretation in period dress, employ storytelling, demonstration techniques, and discussion, encourage interaction with audience, avoid breaking character.
More opportunities with Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Winterville Mounds Park and Museum
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About Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Winterville Mounds Park and Museum
Location:
2415 Hwy 1 North, Greenville, MS 38701, US
Mission Statement
To interpret the site of Winterville Mounds (named for a nearby community) which is a prehistoric ceremonial center built by a Native American civilization that thrived from about A.D. 1000 to 1450.
Description
The mounds, part of the Winterville society's religious system, were the site of sacred structures and ceremonies. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Winterville people lived away from the mound center on family farms in scattered settlement districts throughout the Yazoo-Mississippi River Delta basin. Only a few of the highest-ranking tribal officials lived at the mound center.
The Winterville ceremonial center originally contained at least twenty-three mounds. Some of the mounds located outside the park boundaries have been leveled by highway construction and farming. Twelve of the site's largest mounds, including the 55-foot-high Temple Mound, are currently the focus of a long-range preservation plan being developed by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the University of Mississippi's Center for Archaeological Research.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2415 Hwy 1 NorthGreenville, MS 38701
DATE POSTED
August 29, 2019
SKILLS
- History
- Archeology
- Anthropology
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Event-based
- Knowledge of subject matter and epxerience with living history, relate well to all ages