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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Jaketown Alternative Name: 22 HU 505Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 4.298 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:
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 |
0 | no data |
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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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