Editing Palisade (section)

== Precolumbian North America ==
[[File:Chromesun kincaid site 01.jpg|thumb|The [[Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site|Kincaid site]], a [[Mississippian culture]] palisaded settlement in southern [[Illinois]]]]

The Iroquoian peoples, who coalesced as tribes around the Great Lakes, often defended their settlements with palisades. Within the palisades the peoples lived in communal groups in numerous longhouses, sometimes in communities as large as 2,000 people.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} Archeological evidence of such palisades has been found at numerous 15th and 16th-century sites in both Ontario, Canada, and in New York, United States.

Many settlements of the [[Native Americans in the United States|native]] [[Mississippian culture]] of the [[Midwestern United States]] used palisades. A prominent example is the [[Cahokia Mounds]] site in [[Collinsville, Illinois]]. A wooden stockade with a series of watchtowers or [[bastion]]s at regular intervals formed a {{convert|2|mi|km|adj=mid|-long|0|spell=in|order=flip}} enclosure around [[Monk's Mound]] and the Grand Plaza. [[Archaeologists]] found evidence of the stockade during excavation of the area and indications that it was rebuilt several times, in slightly different locations. The stockade seems to have separated Cahokia's main ceremonial precinct from other parts of the city, as well as being a defensive structure.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/cahokia.html |title = Archaeological Sites - Cahokia |access-date = 2008-09-16 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080916192627/http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/cahokia.html |archive-date = 2008-09-16 }}</ref>

[[File:Angel palisade wall and bastions HRoe 2008.jpg|thumb|right|A section of reconstructed palisade at the [[Angel Mounds]] Site, a [[Mississippian culture|Mississippian site]] in [[Evansville, Indiana]]]]
Other examples include the [[Angel Mounds|Angel Mounds site]] in southern [[Indiana]], [[Aztalan State Park]] in [[Wisconsin]], the [[Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site|Kincaid site]] in [[Illinois]], the [[Parkin Archeological State Park|Parkin site]] and the [[Nodena site]]s in northeastern [[Arkansas]], and the [[Etowah Indian Mounds|Etowah site]] in [[Georgia, United States|Georgia]].