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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Jordan Mounds SiteCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 11.759 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Oak Ridge, LA
Latitude: 32.624630N Longitude: 91.77294W
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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Artificial Mound in The South
From Wikipedia:
Jordan Mounds (16 MO 1) is a multimound archaeological site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.[1] It is the type site for the Jordan Phase of the local chronology. The site was constructed during the protohistoric period between 1540 and 1685.[2]
Description:
The site was once an impressive mound complex, with seven platform mounds surrounding a central plaza and an associated village area. It was once located on the Arkansas River, which has a relict channel nearby. The site was constructed during the protohistoric period (1540 to 1685) after Native Americans in the area were first contacted by Europeans of the Hernando de Soto Expedition of the early 1540s. The builders were an intrusive group in the area, possibly from the Mississippi River area to the east. By the late 1600s the site was abandoned, possibly due to the collapse of their society brought about by the aftereffects of European contact.[2] The site is depicted in E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley in 1848 as Plate XXXVIII Figure 4.[3] In the early 1840s the site was purchased by Dr. Thomas P. Harrison and A.T. Hawkins Duvall.[1] Clarence Bloomfield Moore tried to visit the site in the early 1900s but was unable to do so because the site lacked riverine access for his steamboat the Gopher.[4]
References:
1. Wes Helbling (2009-10-15). "A look at ancient Morehouse". Bastrop Daily Enterprise. Archived from the original on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
2. Tristam R. Kidder (1992). "Excavations at the Jordan Site (16MO1) Morehouse Parish, Louisiana". Southeastern Archaeology. 11 (2): 109–131. JSTOR 40712974.
3. E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis (1848). Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Smithsonian Institution.
4. Clarence Bloomfield Moore; Richard A. Weinstein; David B. Kelley; Joe Saunders (2004-01-06). The Louisiana and Arkansas expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. University Alabama Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8173-1276-3.
Further reading and information:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40712974
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