Icehouse Bottom
Icehouse Bottom is a prehistoric Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located on the Little Tennessee River in the southeastern United States. Native Americans were using the site as a semi-permanent hunting camp as early as 7500 BC, making it one of the oldest-known habitation areas in what is now the state of Tennessee. Analysis of the site's Woodland period (1000 BC - 1000 AD) artifacts shows evidence of an extensive trade network that reached to indigenous peoples in Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio. This was later an area of known Cherokee settlements, the historic people encountered by Anglo-European settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Since 1979, the Icehouse Bottom site has been submerged by Tellico Lake, an impoundment of the Little Tennessee River created by the construction of Tellico Dam. Excavations were conducted at the site in the early 1970s prior to dam construction, in anticipation of inundation. Tellico Lake was developed by and is managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the shoreline immediately above the Icehouse Bottom site is part of the McGhee-Carson Unit of the Tellico Lake Wildlife Management Area, which is managed by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
Q49297
Native American
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Q495006
Monroe County, Tennessee
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Q1137567
Little Tennessee River
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Q2299963
Woodland period
Concept
Q105405
Cherokee
Concept
Q7337794
Tellico Lake
LOC
Q1137567
Little Tennessee River
LOC
Q7697601
Tellico Dam
LOC
Q1367577
Tennessee Valley Authority
ORG
Q7700244
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
ORG
Q5985642
Icehouse Bottom
LOC
Q5985642
Icehouse Bottom
LOC
Q5985642
Icehouse Bottom
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7500-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
7500
DATE
1000-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1000
DATE
1979-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1979
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1970-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1970
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1000
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+18^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
18
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+19^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
19
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dam
reservoir created
located on terrain feature