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Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 14 March 2010  Page Views: 6579

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Cavanaugh
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.485 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Fort Smith, AR
Latitude: 35.313050N  Longitude: 94.4155W
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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Cavanaugh submitted by AKFisher : Fort Smith, Arkansas "Caddo Mound" located behind a church prior to its restoration work and acquisition by the Archaeological Conservancy. The 30-foot tall mound had been badly damaged by the previous owner who built a tunnel into and made a storage room (on the other side). 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 Sebastian County, Arkansas.
A flat topped artificial mound in Sebastian County, Arkansas. 200 feet long and 40 feet high, the mound now has earth removed on one side. Attributed to direct ancestors of the Caddo people, the mound was likely built sometime between 1100AD and 1300AD. A historic cemetery plot was made on the top level of the mound.

The site was recently purchased by The Archaeological Conservancy, and although it is not accessible to the public today, discussion is on-going for restoring the original shape of the mound and creating a park with informative signs.

Note: Archaeological Conservancy purchases most intact Prehistoric Mound in northwest Arkansas.
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Archaeologists seek to research, restore the ‘Cavanaugh Mound’ by bat400 on Sunday, 14 March 2010
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Jessica Crawford, southeast regional director for The Archaeological Conservancy, traveled from Marks, Miss., to Fort Smith to look at a BIG pile of dirt.

It’s an historic piece of ground, in fact, located behind the New Liberty Baptist Church in south Fort Smith and believed to be constructed by Native Americans (possibly Caddo Indian ancestors).

One of those early habitation sites is where Crawford and Tim Mulvihill, an archeologist with the University of Arkansas system, spent much of Thursday clearing brush and trash from around the already damaged eastern side of the mound. The mound, originally about 200 feet long at the base of each of the four sides and about 40 feet tall, is a project the Conservancy will research and restore. Crawford said at some point the Conservancy may build a small park around the mound with signage and other exhibits that explain the historic site. The cost and timeframe for that eventuality is unknown, Crawford said. Just clearing the vegetation and trees that have taken over the mound could cost up to $15,000.

“It’s going to be a big job. ... Something like this, with the research, could take several years,” she said.

Fortunately, considerable research has been conducted at the site.

“Cavanaugh is mostly intact and well-preserved for a mound of this age in this region. There appears to be no associated village area, and no other associated mounds, making Cavanaugh somewhat unusual. It is likely that it was associated with the Spiro site, about 15 km to the west, but this has yet to be definitely established,” noted a 2005 research report by Gregory Vogel, assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

Vogel, who visited the site between 2002-2004, also noted: “The size, shape, and stratigraphy of the mound all indicate that it was constructed and used in a manner similar to other Caddoan era platform mounds in the Arkansas River valley. The mound appears to be alone on the landscape, not connected of a group of surrounding mounds and not located within or near a contemporaneous settlement. It overlooks the Poteau/Arkansas River bottoms to the west and was probably visible from both the Spiro and Skidgel sites in prehistoric times.”

For more, see the Fort Smith Region City Wire.
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