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Ghost Site Mounds
The Ghost site ( 16 TE 18), or Ghost site mounds is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, with an early to middle Coles Creek culture component (700–1200 AD) and a Late Coles Creek to Plaquemine culture component (1200 to 1541 AD). Description The site has three surviving mounds and could have had as many as five. Mound A, the largest mound, is an in height and by platform mound. The mound has been used historically as a cemetery. Since 1990 considerable erosion has damaged the mound, after portions of it were removed to build a dam across a nearby bayou. The other two remaining mounds are small dome-shaped mounds less than tall and about by at their bases. Mound B was also partially removed for the dam project, but Mound C is still intact. Two other small rises still exist (Mound D and Mound E), but it is unclear if they were mounds or natural features. Excavations Limited archaeological testing has been done at the site. Bone, shell, ceramics, and charcoal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newellton, Louisiana
Newellton is a town in northern Tensas Parish, Louisiana, Tensas Parish in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 886 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, a decline of 596 persons, or 40 percent, from the 2000 United States Census, 2000 tabulation of 1,482. Newellton is west of the Mississippi River on Lake St. Joseph, an ox-bow lake. Further south toward St. Joseph, Louisiana, St. Joseph, the parish seat of government, is another ox-bow lake, Lake Bruin, a part of which is the popular Lake Bruin State Park. History Newellton itself was founded in the early 19th century by the Routh family, for whom the defunct Routhwood Elementary School was named. John David Stokes Newell Sr., a Planter (American South), planter and lawyer in St. Joseph, the seat of Tensas Parish, named the settlement for his father, Edward D. Newell, a native of North Carolina who relocated to Tensas Parish in 1834."John ... and Edward Newell", Louisiana Historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archaeological Periods (North America)
North American archaeological periods divides the history of pre-Columbian North America into a number of named successive eras or periods, from the earliest-known human habitation through to the early Colonial period which followed the European colonization of the Americas. Stage classification One of the most enduring classifications of archaeological periods and cultures was established in Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips' 1958 book, ''Method and Theory in American Archaeology''. They divided the archaeological record in the Americas into five phases, only three of which applied to North America. The use of these divisions has diminished in most of North America due to the development of local classifications with more elaborate breakdowns of times. :1. The Paleo-Indians stage and/or Lithic stage :2. The Archaic stage :3. Formative stage or Post-archaic stage – at this point, the North American classifications system differs from the rest of the Americas. For more de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaeological Sites Of The Coles Creek Culture
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography. The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaquemine Mississippian Culture
The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture (circa 1200 to 1700 CE) centered on the Lower Mississippi River valley. It had a deep history in the area stretching back through the earlier Coles Creek (700-1200 CE) and Troyville cultures (400-700 CE) to the Marksville culture (100 BCE to 400 CE). 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. History Definition The Plaquemine culture was a Mississippian culture variant centered on the Mississippi River valley, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to just south of its junction with the Arkansas River, encompassing the Yazoo River basin and Natchez Bluffs in western Mississippi, and the lower Ouachita and Red River valleys in southeastern Arkansas, and eastern Louisiana. They were primarily agriculturists who grew maize, pumpkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundown Mounds
Sundown Mounds is a multimound archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana from the Early Coles Creek culture. It is the type site In archaeology, a type site (American English) or type-site (British English) is the site used to define a particular archaeological culture or other typological unit, which is often named after it. For example, discoveries at La Tène and H ... for the ''Sundown Phase (600-800 CE)'' of the Tensas Basin and Natchez Bluff Coles Creek chronology. Description The site is located on the western bank of Little Choctaw Bayou and has three platform mounds that form a triangle surrounding a plaza, a typical Coles Creek arrangement. Mound A, the largest mound, is an in height and its base measures by and a summit measuring by . Mound B, the second largest, is located to the northwest of Mound A. It is in height with base measurements of by and its summit by . Mound C is with base measurements of by with a dome-shaped summit. Mounds A and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Routh Mounds
Routh Mounds is a Plaquemine culture archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It is the type site for the ''Routh Phase(1200 to 1350 CE)'' of the Tensas Basin Plaquemine Mississippian chronology. It is located approximately northwest of the Winter Quarters State Historic Site. See also * Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley * Balmoral Mounds * Flowery Mound * Ghost Site Mounds * Sundown Mounds Sundown Mounds is a multimound archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana from the Early Coles Creek culture. It is the type site In archaeology, a type site (American English) or type-site (British English) is the site used to define a p ... References External links * {{Pre-Columbian North America Plaquemine Mississippian culture Mounds in Louisiana Geography of Tensas Parish, Louisiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowery Mound
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. Description The site is located on Andrews Bayou. The mound itself is a very well preserved platform mound measuring in height and by at its base and a summit measuring square. Core samples taken during investigations at the site have revealed the mound was built in a single stage and because the fill types can still be differentiated it suggests the mound is relatively young. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal found in a midden under the mound reveals that the site was occupied from 996–1162 during the Coles Creek period. The mound was built over the midden between 1200–1541 during the Plaquemine/Mississippian period. This was further confirmed by stylistic analysis of pottery found at the site. See also * Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley * Balmoral M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balmoral Mounds
Balmoral Mounds ( 16 TE 12) is an archaeological site of the Coles Creek culture in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. The site has components located both on the east and west sides of US 65 near Bayou Rousset. Description The site consists of 3 platform mounds that form an equilateral triangle. Mound A, the southwesternmost of the group, measures in height, with the base being by . Mound B, the northernmost mound, is a dome shaped mound measuring in height, with the base being by . The northernmost mound in the triangle, Mound C, is also a dome shaped mound and measures in height, with the base being by . Core samples of Mounds A and C suggest they were built at roughly the same time and in single stages Location The site is located on US 65 south of Somerset. See also *Balmoral, Louisiana * Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley * Flowery Mound * Ghost Site Mounds * Routh Mounds * Sundown Mounds Sundown Mounds is a multimound archaeological site in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tensas River
The Tensas River is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river, known as Tensas Bayou in its upper reaches, begins in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of the state and runs roughly southwest for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 3, 2011 more or less in parallel with the Mississippi River. The confluence of the Tensas and the Ouachita rivers, in Jonesville in Catahoula Parish, creates the Black River, not to be confused with Black Lake in Natchitoches Parish in north-central Louisiana. For the twenty miles south of Interstate 20 between Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography ... and Tallulah, the river winds its way through the Tensas River National Wildlife Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Tensas Parish () is a List of parishes in Louisiana, parish located in the northeastern section of the U.S. state, State of Louisiana; its eastern border is the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 4,147. It is the least populated parish in Louisiana. The parish seat is St. Joseph, Louisiana, St. Joseph. The name ''Tensas'' is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. The parish was founded in 1843 following Indian Removal. The parish was developed for cotton agriculture, which dominated the economy through the early 20th century. There has also been some cattle ranching in the 1930s and timber extraction. History Pre-history Tensas Parish was the home to many successive indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous groups in the thousands of years before European settlements began. Some village and Mound Builders, mound sites once built by these various peoples are preserved today as archaeology, archaeological sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippian Culture Pottery
Mississippian culture pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. It is often characterized by the adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shell- tempering agents in the clay paste. Shell tempering is one of the hallmarks of Mississippian cultural practices. Analysis of local differences in materials, techniques, forms, and designs is a primary means for archaeologists to learn about the lifeways, religious practices, trade, and interaction among Mississippian peoples. The value of this pottery on the illegal antiquities market has led to extensive looting of sites. Materials and techniques Mississippian culture pottery was made from locally available clay sources, which often gives archaeologists clues as to where a specific example originated. The clay was tempered with an additive to keep it from shrinking and cracking in the drying and firing pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platform Mound
A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity. It typically refers to a flat-topped mound, whose sides may be pyramidal. In Eastern North America The indigenous peoples of North America built substructure mounds for well over a thousand years, starting in the Archaic period and continuing through the Woodland period. Many different archaeological cultures ( Poverty Point culture, Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture, Plaquemine culture and Mississippian culture) of North Americas Eastern Woodlands are specifically well known for using platform mounds as a central aspect of their overarching religious practices and beliefs. These platform mounds are usually four-sided truncated pyramids, steeply sided, with steps built of wooden logs ascending one side of the earthworks. When Europeans first arrived in North America, the peoples of the Mississippian culture were still using and building platform mounds. Documented uses for Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
