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Sundown Mounds is an multimound
archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...
in
Tensas Parish, Louisiana Tensas Parish (french: Paroisse des Tensas) is a parish located in the northeastern section of the State of Louisiana; its eastern border is the Mississippi River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,252. It is the least populated paris ...
from the Early
Coles Creek culture Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands. It followed the Troyville culture. The period marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area. Population i ...
. It is the
type site In archaeology, a type site is the site used to define a particular archaeological culture or other typological unit, which is often named after it. For example, discoveries at La Tène and Hallstatt led scholars to divide the European Iron Age ...
for the ''Sundown Phase (600-800 CE)'' of the Tensas Basin and Natchez Bluff Coles Creek chronology.


Description

The site is located on the western bank of Little Choctaw Bayou and has three
platform mound Platform may refer to: Technology * Computing platform, a framework on which applications may be run * Platform game, a genre of video games * Car platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models * Weapons platform, a system or ...
s that form a triangle surrounding a
plaza A town square (or square, plaza, public square, city square, urban square, or ''piazza'') is an open public space, commonly found in the heart of a traditional town but not necessarily a true geometric square, used for community gatherings. ...
, a typical Coles Creek arrangement. Mound A, the largest mound, is an in height and its base measures by and a summit measuring by . Mound B, the second largest, is located to the northwest of Mound A. It is in height with base measurements of by and its summit by . Mound C is with base measurements of by with a dome-shaped summit. Mounds A and B had ramps from their summits down to the plaza. The mounds were constructed sometime between 750 and 800 CE, but the site was occupied during most of the Coles Creek period from 700 to 1200.


See also

* Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley *
Balmoral Mounds Balmoral Mounds ( 16 TE 12) is an archaeological site of the Coles Creek culture in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. The site has components located both on the east and west sides of US 65 near Bayou Rousset. Description The site consists of 3 platfor ...
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Flowery Mound Flowery Mound is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana with components from the Late Coles Creek and Plaquemine-Mississippian culture which dates from approximately 950–1541. Description The site is located on Andrews Bayou. The ...
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Ghost Site Mounds The Ghost site ( 16 TE 18), or Ghost site mounds is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, with an early to middle Coles Creek culture component (700–1200 CE) and a Late Coles Creek to Plaquemine culture component (1200 to 1541 CE ...


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External links


Sundown Mounds: Ancient Mounds Trail - Louisiana Historical Markers on Waymarking.com
{{Pre-Columbian North America Archaeological sites of the Coles Creek culture Mounds in Louisiana Geography of Tensas Parish, Louisiana 7th-century establishments in Coles Creek culture 12th-century disestablishments in Coles Creek culture Former Native American populated places in the United States