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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Adams Site Alternative Name: 15FU4Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Hickman, KY
Latitude: 36.572570N Longitude: 89.19649W
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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Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest
The Adams site (15FU4) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Hickman in Fulton County, Kentucky, on Bayou de Chien, a creek that drains into the nearby Mississippi River. The 7.25-hectare site is built over the remains of a Late Woodland village. It has a central group of platform mounds around a central plaza and another smaller plaza area to the southwest of the largest mound. The site was occupied from 1100 to 1500 CE during the Medley (1100 to 1300) and Jackson (1300 to 1500) phases of the local chronology.[2] Some very deep midden areas have been excavated from the village surrounding the mounds and plazas, some as deep as 1 metre (3.3 ft) to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) thick, attesting to the long term habitation of this site.[3] Source: Wikipedia. Note: Adams Site (15FU4) is possibly associated with but distinct from another Adams Site (15CH90) in Christian County, Kentucky.
References:
1. National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Lewis, R. Barry (1996). "Chapter 5:Mississippian Farmers". Kentucky Archaeology. University Press of Kentucky. p. 142. ISBN 0-8131-1907-3.
3. Pollack, David (2008), "Chapter 6:Mississippi Period" (PDF), in David Pollack (ed.), The Archaeology of Kentucky:An update, Kentucky Heritage Council, p. 620, archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2010, retrieved November 2, 2010
Further reading and information:
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_site<2>
The Digital Archaeological Record
core.tdar.org/document/185483/preliminary-report-on-human-skeletal-remains-from-the-adams-site-15fu4<4>
Directions:
From downtown Hickman, KY via KY-94 W / Carroll St., .6 mi.
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