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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Jaketown Alternative Name: 22 HU 505
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 42.753 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Belzoni, MS
Latitude: 33.236590N  Longitude: 90.48666W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Jaketown
Jaketown submitted by AKFisher : 2 of 2 (overgrown) platform mounds remaining at the Jaketown, Mississippi mound complex of the 14 that were once at the site. The platform mounds are believed to have been made in AD 1100, although no excavations were done there. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
The site was first occupied from 2000-600BC, during the Poverty Point culture (Late Archaic.) Artifacts found at the Jaketown Site from this period include clay pipes, red jasper beads, plummets, and projectile points. Several small mounds may have been from this earliest period, but have been destroyed from modern agriculture and for use as fill.

Location given is for Mound B which i the largest of three still extant.

Later occupation of the site (1100 CE to 1500 CE) occurred during the Mississippian culture period. There are two earthwork mounds on site from this period, unexcavated, but dated from associated pottery shards. Although this site was first occupied in the Late Archaic and might have comprised an ancient village at that point (no definite proof), later activities in the Mississippian were mostly about mound building and less evidence exists for permanent occupation.

There are no facilities at the site other than a historical marker. The two Mississippian culture era mounds can be seen from the roadside, but the site itself is not accessible.

National Historic Landmark. National Register of Historic Places.

There is a museum for the site in the nearby town of Belzoni.

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Jaketown
Jaketown submitted by AKFisher : The Jaketown Mounds in Mississippi are a Poverty Point Culture site dated to 1500 BC. The site was expanded and inhabited until AD 1600. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jaketown
Jaketown submitted by AKFisher : Obscure Mounds: Historical marker at Jaketown, Mississippi site dated to 1500 BC. It had 18 large mounds and 3 survive today. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jaketown
Jaketown submitted by AKFisher : 1 of 2 (overgrown) platform mounds remaining at the Jaketown, Mississippi mound complex of the 14 that were once at the site. The platform mounds are believed to have been made in AD 1100, although no excavations were done there. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jaketown
Jaketown submitted by AKFisher : Archaeological reconstruction of the Jaketown, Mississippi mound complex from the mound encyclopedia. Jaketown was constructed AD 1100. Three mounds remain there today. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jaketown
Jaketown submitted by Flickr : Jaketown Museum---Belzoni, Ms. The Jaketown Museum chronicles the Jaketown site located north of Belzoni on State Highway 7 from the Late Archaic Period (1750BC-500BC) through the period (500BC-1000AD). People lived at this site during these periods, as evidenced by the artifacts that have been found there. The museum displays the huts that these people lived in and by the artifacts show that they...

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Re: Jaketown Mounds by Andy B on Friday, 01 November 2019
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Two prominent flat-topped rectangular mounds are present at the Jaketown site. Mound B, the largest, measures about 150 by 200 feet at its base and is 23 feet high. On its eastern side, a projecting bulge marks a ramp once used as a stairway. Mound C, northwest of B, is about 15 feet high. While neither mound has been excavated, distinctively styled pottery fragments found in the surrounding area indicate that the mounds are probably Mississippian period earthworks, dating to between1100 and 1500 A.D. Both mounds presumably had ceremonial temples or elite residences on their summits.

Numerous smaller mounds at the Jaketown site, some of which may have dated to the Late Archaic/Poverty Point period (1500 to 1000 B.C.), have been destroyed by plowing and highway construction. The two remaining large mounds described above are owned and protected by the state of Mississippi.

The Jaketown Site is located on the west side of State Hwy. 7, about four miles north of Belzoni, Mississippi. There are no on-site visitor accommodations, and the mounds are covered with dense underbrush. For safety, the mounds should be viewed from the highway only.
Source: https://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/mounds/Jak.htm
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Re: Jaketown by Andy B on Sunday, 06 January 2019
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JAKETOWN MUSEUM
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday- Friday
Free admission
116 West Jackson St. Belzoni, 662-247-2151
Museum contains artifacts from Jaketown dating from about 1750 BC to 1500 AD making it one the longest and earliest inhabited sites discovered in North America.
http://www.belzonims.com/belattract.htm

Jaketown Mounds is one of the most fascinating sites on the Mississippi Mound Trail and one of the most important for understanding early Native American mound building in North America. Located approximately four miles north of Belzoni, Mississippi on Highway 7, the site of Jaketown is home to some of the earliest Native American earthworks in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Of the 18 mounds originally recorded here, only Mounds A, B and C are still visible. However, a number of earthworks are now buried under ten feet of flood deposits, and archaeologists estimate that portions of as many as 13 mounds may still be present.
http://trails.mdah.ms.gov/mmt/jaketown/
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