Ancient & Sacred Sites of Alabama

Ancient & Sacred Sites in Alabama: A Complete Guide is a practical, place-based companion to Alabama as the Keystone. Designed for readers, travelers, and seekers who wish to encounter the land directly, this guide identifies the ancient, ceremonial, and enduring landscapes of Alabama that remain visible and accessible today.

Organized by rivers, regions, and seasons, the guide leads readers to mound centers, shell sites, caves, river corridors, Black Belt heartlands, and ancestral town locations—grounded in archaeology, geography, and historical mapping rather than myth or speculation. Each site is presented as part of a living system shaped by water, soil, stone, and movement.

This guide invites careful visitation and respectful awareness, offering a way to experience Alabama as a layered landscape where deep time, Indigenous intelligence, and continuity of land use can still be seen, walked, and understood.