Angel Mounds State Historic Site,an expression of the Mississippian culture,is an archaeological site managed by the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites that includes more than 600 acres of land about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of present-day Evansville,in Vanderburgh and Warrick counties in Indiana. The large residential and agricultural community was constructed and inhabited from AD 1100 to AD 1450,and served as the political,cultural,and economic center of the Angel chiefdom. It extended within 120 miles (190 km) of the Ohio River valley to the Green River in present-day Kentucky. The town had as many as 1,000 inhabitants inside the walls at its peak,and included a complex of thirteen earthen mounds,hundreds of home sites,a palisade (stockade),and other structures.
Wickliffe Mounds is a prehistoric,Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Ballard County,Kentucky,just outside the town of Wickliffe,about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Archaeological investigations have linked the site with others along the Ohio River in Illinois and Kentucky as part of the Angel phase of Mississippian culture. Wickliffe Mounds is controlled by the State Parks Service,which operates a museum at the site for interpretation of the ancient community. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places,it is also a Kentucky Archeological Landmark and State Historic Site.
The Nodena site is an archeological site east of Wilson,Arkansas,and northeast of Reverie,Tennessee,in Mississippi County,Arkansas,United States. Around 1400–1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed in the Nodena area on a meander bend of the Mississippi River. The Nodena site was discovered and first documented by Dr. James K. Hampson,archaeologist and owner of the plantation on which the Nodena site is located. Artifacts from this site are on display in the Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson,Arkansas. The Nodena site is the type site for the Nodena phase,believed by many archaeologists to be the province of Pacaha visited by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542.
Parkin Archeological State Park,also known as Parkin Indian Mound,is an archeological site and state park in Parkin,Cross County,Arkansas. Around 1350–1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed at the site,at the confluence of the St. Francis and Tyronza rivers. Artifacts from this site are on display at the site museum. The Parkin site is the type site for the Parkin phase,an expression of the Mississippian culture from the Late Mississippian period. Many archeologists believe it to be part of the province of Casqui,documented as visited by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. Archeological artifacts from the village of the Parkin people are dated to 1400–1650 CE.
The Anna site is a prehistoric Plaquemine culture archaeological site located in Adams County,Mississippi,10 miles (16 km) north of Natchez. It is the type site for the Anna phase of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on September 14,1993.
The Emerald Mound site,also known as the Selsertown site,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 of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology and was still in use by the later historic Natchez people for their main ceremonial center. The platform mound is the second-largest Mississippian period earthwork in the country,after Monk's Mound at Cahokia,Illinois.
The Holly Bluff site,sometimes known as the Lake George Site,and locally as "The Mound Place," is an archaeological site that is a type site for the Lake George phase of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture period of the area. The site is on the southern margin of the Mississippian cultural advance down the Mississippi River and on the northern edge of that of the Cole's Creek and Plaquemine cultures of the South." The site was first excavated by Clarence Bloomfield Moore in 1908 and tested by Philip Phillips,Paul Gebhard and Nick Zeigler in 1949.
The Winterville site is a major archaeological site in unincorporated Washington County,Mississippi,north of Greenville and along the river. It consists of major earthwork monuments,including more than twelve large platform mounds and cleared and filled plazas. It is the type site for the Winterville Phase of the Lower Yazoo Basin region of the Plaquemine Mississippian culture. Protected as a state park,it has been designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Kings Crossing site is an archaeological site that is a type site for the Kings Crossing Phase of the Lower Yazoo Basin Coles Creek chronology.
Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands. It followed the Troyville culture. The period marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area. Population increased dramatically and there is strong evidence of a growing cultural and political hierarchization,especially by the end of the Coles Creek sequence. Although many of the classic traits of chiefdom societies are not yet manifested,by 1000 CE the formation of simple elite polities had begun. Coles Creek sites are found in Arkansas,Louisiana,and Mississippi. It is considered ancestral to the Plaquemine culture.
The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture centered on the Lower Mississippi River valley. It had a deep history in the area stretching back through the earlier Coles Creek and Troyville cultures to the Marksville culture. The Natchez and related Taensa peoples were their historic period descendants. The type site for the culture is the Medora site in Louisiana;while other examples include the Anna,Emerald,Holly Bluff,and Winterville sites in Mississippi.
The Medora site (16WBR1) is an archaeological site that is a type site for the prehistoric Plaquemine culture period. The name for the culture is taken from the proximity of Medora to the town of Plaquemine,Louisiana. The site is in West Baton Rouge Parish,Louisiana,and was inhabited from approximately 1300 to 1600 CE. It consisted of two mounds separated by a plaza. In the winter of 1939–1940 excavation of this site was undertaken by the Louisiana State Archaeological Survey,a joint project of Louisiana State University and the Work Projects Administration. It was directed by James A. Ford,and George I. Quimby. The excavations of the site were instrumental in defining the characteristics of the Plaquemine period and culture.
The Boyd Mounds Site (22MD512) is an archaeological site from the Late Woodland and Early Mississippian period located in Madison County,Mississippi near Ridgeland. Many of the mounds were excavated by The National Park Service in 1964. It is located at mile 106.9 on the old Natchez Trace,now the Natchez Trace Parkway. It was added to the NRHP on July 14,1989 as NRIS number 89000784.
The Twin Mounds Site,also known as the Nolan Site,is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Barlow in Ballard County,Kentucky,just north of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers,and directly across the Ohio River from Mound City,Illinois.
The Beasley Mounds Site (40SM43) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the confluence of Dixon Creek and the Cumberland River near the unincorporated community of Dixon Springs in Smith County,Tennessee. The site was first excavated by amateur archaeologists in the 1890s. More examples of Mississippian stone statuary have been found at the site than any other in the Middle Tennessee area. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The Brick Church Mound and Village Site (40DV39) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Nashville in Davidson County,Tennessee. It was excavated in the late nineteenth century by Frederic Ward Putnam. During excavations in the early 1970s,the site produced a unique cache of ceramic figurines very similar in style to Mississippian stone statuary which are now on display at the Frank H. McClung Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on May 7,1973 as NRIS number 73001759 although this did not save the site from being almost totally destroyed by residential development.
Transylvania Mounds is an archaeological site in East Carroll Parish,Louisiana with components from the Coles Creek (700–1200)CE and Plaquemine/Mississippi periods (1200–1541). It is the type site for the Transylvania Phase of the Tensas Basin Plaquemine Mississippian chronology.
Flowery Mound is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish,Louisiana with components from the Late Coles Creek and Plaquemine-Mississippian culture which dates from approximately 950–1541.
Foster's Mound is a Plaquemine culture archaeological site located in Adams County,Mississippi northeast of Natchez off US 61. It is the type site for the Foster Phase of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology. It was added to the NRHP on September 2,1982 as NRIS number 82003091. The mounds are listed on the Mississippi Mound Trail.
The Ware Mounds and Village Site (11U31),also known as the Running Lake Site,located west of Ware,Illinois,is an archaeological site comprising three platform mounds and a 160-acre (65 ha) village site. The site was inhabited by the Late Woodland and Mississippian cultures from c. 800 to c. 1300. The village may be the only Mississippian village known to have existed in the Mississippi River valley in Southern Illinois. As the village was located near two major sources of chert,which Mississippian cultures used to make agricultural tools,it was likely a trading center for the mineral.
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