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A Middle Mississippian period archaeological site located near Lebanon, Illinois. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in Illinois, after Monk's Mound at Cahokia. Emerald Mound site: Mississippi A Plaquemine Mississippian-period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi. The ...
Category: Archaeological sites in Mississippi. 6 languages. ... This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Mississippi, ...
Village and archaeological site of the Plaquemine culture and their descendants the Natchez. 16: Hester Site: January 3, 2001 : Amory: Monroe: Archaeological site, a campsite used by Paleo-Indian and Archaic peoples in 9000-7000 BC. 17: Highland Park Dentzel Carousel: Highland Park Dentzel Carousel
Jaketown Site is an archaeological site with two prehistoric earthwork mounds in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States. [2] While the mounds have not been excavated, distinctive pottery shards found in the area lead scholars to date the mounds' construction and use to the Mississippian culture period, roughly 1100 CE to 1500 CE.
The Emerald Mound site , also known as the Selsertown site, [3] is a Plaquemine culture Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi, United States. The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730 CE. It is the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 to 1680 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs ...
Hester Site (known by the two Smithsonian trinomials 22MO569 and 22MO1011) is a major prehistoric archaeological site in Monroe County, Mississippi.It is a multicomponent site whose major occupation took place during the Archaic period with artifacts dating from 9000 to 8000 BCE, and other occupations during the Woodland and Mississippian periods. [3]
Twelve of the site's largest mounds, including the 55 feet (17 m) high Temple Mound, are the focus in the early 21st century 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. In June 2015 the state legislature authorized ...
The Carson Mounds (), also known as the Carson Site and Carson-Montgomery-[2] [3] [4] is a large Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Clarksdale in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States, in the Yazoo Basin.