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The Turk Site ( 15CE6) is a
Mississippian culture The Mississippian culture was a collection of Native American societies that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600 CE, varying regionally. It was known for building la ...
archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or recorded history, historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline ...
located near Bardwell in
Carlisle County, Kentucky Carlisle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,826, making it the fourth-least populous county in Kentucky. Its county seat is Bardwell. The county was founded in 1886 and named ...
, on a bluff spur overlooking the
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floodplain.


Site

The site was occupied primarily during the Dorena Phase (1100 to 1300 CE) and into the Medley Phase (1300-1500 CE) of the local chronology. Its inhabitants may have moved from the Marshall Site, which is a slightly older settlement located on the nearest adjacent bluff spur. For a regional administrative center, Turk is a small site, but this is because of constraints placed on it by the geography of the bluff spur it sits on. The layout of the site is characteristically Mississippian, with a number of
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 substru ...
s surrounding a central
plaza A town square (or public square, urban square, city square or simply square), also called a plaza or piazza, is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town or city, and which is used for community gatherings. Rela ...
. The earliest published investigation at the site was that of Robert Loughridge, published in 1888; the most extensive work at the site was conducted under Richard Edging and published in 1985.Sussenbach, Tom, and R. Barry Lewis. ''Archaeological Investigations in Carlisle, Hickman, and Fulton Counties, Kentucky: Site Survey and Excavations''. ''Western Kentucky Project Report #4''.
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: U of Illinois Department of Anthropology, 1987, 41.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Carlisle County, Kentucky This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carlisle County, Kentucky. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Carlisle County, Kentucky, United States. ...
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Mississippian stone statuary The Mississippian stone statuary are Artifact (archaeology), artifacts of polished stone in the shape of human figurines made by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) and found in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and ...
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Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (formerly Southern Cult, Southern Death Cult or Buzzard Cult), abbreviated S.E.C.C., is the name given by modern scholars to the regional stylistic similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies, and mythology of ...
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List of Mississippian sites This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland- Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 ...


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Early shell tempering in far Western Kentucky
Middle Mississippian culture Mounds in Kentucky Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Geography of Carlisle County, Kentucky National Register of Historic Places in Carlisle County, Kentucky {{US-archaeology-stub