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Multi-periodSite Name: Mann Site Alternative Name: 12 Po 2Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 5.453 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Evansville, IN Nearest Village: Mt. Vernon, IN
Latitude: 37.913800N Longitude: 87.84W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Multicomponent Earthworks in Posey County, Indiana.Mann is a large site with twenty or more earthworks in the form of mounds, linear earthworks and enclosures. Dating to 100 and 500 AD, the Mann site has been identified as part of the broader Hopewell Tradition.
Exotic materials (Grizzly Bear teeth, Yellowstone Obsidian) and pottery styles from contemporaneous Middle Woodland Era peoples in Ohio and Northern Georgia indicate trading networks and even population exchanges among the people at Mann and other peoples in the Ohio River Valley, the southeast, and the Missouri River watershed. As most of the Mann site has been under the plow, various artifacts have come to the surface. More have been identified during planned excavations.
In addition to visible earthworks, magnetometer studies have reveal habitation sites and two possible "Woodhenge" sites. There are also some tantalizing clues reported recently of some evidence of lead smelting (although I've found no indication whether this evidence is finished artifacts, furnace evidence, or chemical analysis.)
A portion of the Mann site is now owned by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The rest is still owned by private landowners.
National Register of Historic Places: Site added in 1974.
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Middle Woodland, Paleo-Indian, Middle Mississippian
Period of Significance: 499-0 AD
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Domestic, Funerary
Historic Sub-function: Camp, Graves/Burials
Current Function: Agriculture/Subsistence
Note: The location given is general for the site and does not mark a specific feature. The site is not accessible to the public at this time.
Note: Show of private Hopewell Tradition artifact collection, now in State hands. Little known Hopewell site; largest outside of Ohio.
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