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<< Text Pages >> Hovey Lake Village - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

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Multi-periodSite Name: Hovey Lake Village Alternative Name: 12 Po 590, 592-598, 600-602, 615-624, Hovey Lake Archaeological District
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 21.596 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mount Vernon, Indiana
Latitude: 37.817000N  Longitude: 87.933W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Posey County, Indiana.
Village site post dates the decline of Angel Mounds. Designated the Carborn-Welborn Culture, the people who lived here did not always raise mounds, but had a roughly similar village life with wattle and daub buildings around a central plaza.

Caborn-Welborn is felt to have been based on and to have followed the culture that created Angel Mounds. Unlike the Angel phase, Caborn-Welborn is characterized by characterized by small settlements spread out over a larger areas of land. It was one of the last distinct prehistoric cultures of the Ohio Valley, prior to European contact. Another Caborn-Welborn example is the Slack Farm site.

The Hovey Lake Archaeological District actually contains 18 pre-contact sites and covers 343 acres.

A National Register of Historic Places site, added in 1985.
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Historic - Non-Aboriginal, Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Caborn-Welborn phase, Late Mississippian, American,rural
Period of Significance: 1700-1749, 1650-1699, 1600-1649, 1500-1599, 1499-1000 AD
Owner: State
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Camp
Current Function: Agriculture/Subsistence
Current Sub-function: Agricultural Fields
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