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Submitted by AKFisher on Monday, 31 July 2023  Page Views: 264

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Menard-Hodges Site Alternative Name: Menard-Hodges Mounds, Osotouy
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 36.973 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Tichnor, AR
Latitude: 34.035760N  Longitude: 91.23135W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Menard-Hodges Site
Menard-Hodges Site submitted by AKFisher : The Mound today. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in The South

From Wikipedia:
"The Menard–Hodges site (3AR4) (also known as Menard-Hodges Mounds and Osotouy), is an archaeological site in Arkansas County, Arkansas. It includes two large platform mounds as well as several house mounds. It is the type site for the Menard phase, a protohistoric Mississippian culture group.

The Menard Mound was named for Frank Menard, on whose farm the mound was discovered.[3]

The site is considered as a possible candidate for the Province of Anilco encountered by the Hernando de Soto Entrada in 1540.[4] It was contemporaneous with the Parkin site, believed by many archaeologists to be the location of the province of Casqui,[5][6] and the Nodena site, believed by many archaeologists to be the location of the province of Pacaha.[5][6]

The site is also considered to be the location of the protohistoric Quapaw village of Osotouy (or Ossoteoue) first encountered by French explorers in the late 17th century.[7][8] The Quapaw at the time had four villages, Kappa, Ossoteoue, Touriman, and Tonginga. Kappa was reported to have been on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River and the other three located on the western bank in or near present-day Desha County, Arkansas.[9] The location was excavated by James A. Ford in 1958. The excavations included burials, with graves in extended, flexed, and secondary interments scattered throughout the site and oriented in many different directions.[10] The site has yielded evidence of occupation as early as the Baytown Period (300-700 CE), all the way to the European contact period in the 16th century. The most unusual formation at the site is Mound A, which is conical in shape, and was built in two stages. Ceramics found at the site are consistent with native occupation at the time Henri de Tonti established the first French outpost west of the Mississippi at the Arkansas Post in 1686.[8][11]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.[2][1] In 1997 the National Park Service acquired a tract of 360 acres (150 ha) which encompasses the site of the mound complex and the site believed to be that of Tonti's 1686 outpost. It is now administered as part of the Arkansas Post National Memorial, whose main site is 5 miles (8.0 km) (but 25 miles (40 km) by road) from the mound site.[12]"

References:
1. National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. Menard–Hodges Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-26. Archived from the original on 2007-03-01.
3. HalliBurton, William Henry (1903). A Topographical Description and History of Arkansas County, Arkansas from 1541 to 1875. History of Arkansas County, Arkansas, 1541-1875. p. 4.
4. Hudson, Charles M. (1997). Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. University of Georgia Press. p. 337. ISBN 9780820318882.
5. Hudson, Charles M. (1997). Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820318882.
6. Phyllis Morse (1981). "Parkin". Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series. Arkansas Archaeological Survey. ISSN 0882-5491. OCLC 7540091.
7. Ford, James A. (1961), Menard Site: the Quapaw Village of Osotouy On the Arkansas River, American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers, New York: American Museum of Natural History
8. Menard–Hodges Site". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
9. Quapaw". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
10. UA-WRI-French Colonial Arkansas". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
11. Summary description of Menard–Hodges site". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2014-10-22. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
12. The Weathervane, Volume 2, Number 2 (2006)". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2014-10-20.

Further reading and information:
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/menard-hodges-site-1190/<28><29> archeology.uark.edu/who-we-are/50moments/osotouy/<31><32>
Directions: via Tichnor, Tichnor Blacktop Rd., 9 mi.
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Menard-Hodges Site
Menard-Hodges Site submitted by AKFisher : Polished & engraved stone disc excavated from Menard Mound near Arkansas Post, Arkansas. 13-14 inches in diameter and similar to many found in Alabama and elsewhere. Used as "tables" for various rituals and ceremonies. This example displays the "ogee" symbol. From: Moorehead 1910. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Menard-Hodges Site
Menard-Hodges Site submitted by AKFisher : 1800's illustrations of mounds were often badly exaggerated. This depiction of the Menard Mound in Arkansas was printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on May 26, 1883. Image courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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