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Lubbub Creek
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2025
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The Lubbub Creek archaeological site (1PI33 and 1PI85) is located in Pickens County, AL, on the Tombigbee River. This spot had periodically been occupied since Clovis times. During the late Woodland period, it was a summer village where inhabitants cooperatively tended their crops before heading into higher country for the fall/winter hunt. Unlike many of the settlements farther west in the Choctaw homeland, Lubbub Creek was not vacated when corn agriculture became prominent. Instead, perhaps as early as AD 1100, individual households moved out of the old village and built hamlets in the surrounding area to take advantage of good soils for corn, with the old settlement becoming a community center.
The site's single earth mound was constructed in the late 1300s. Twice, later in its history, fortifications were built around the town center. Around AD 1425 the material culture made by the people at Lubbub Creek shifted, showing growing influence and probably a movement of people from Moundville, the Alabama River and Mobile Bay. The site was burned and abandoned around 1650.
The Lubbb Creek site draws its name from the Choctaw name for the creek that it is located on, Bok Lahba (Warm Stream). It is located within the Choctaw Ahepvt District and on Choctaw treaty land. The site's archaeology evidences a number of continuities with Choctaw culture documented by the French upon their arrival in the region 50 years after the site became uninhabited. The Lubbub Creek site was revisited by Choctaw people into the 1800s.
