The Adams site ( 15FU4) is a

Mississippian culture The Mississippian culture was a Native Americans in the United States, Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern United States, Midwestern, Eastern United States, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from appr ...

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located near

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, on

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, a creek that drains into the nearby

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Mississippian sites on Lower Ohio Map HRoe 2010

The 7.25-hectare site is built over the remains of a

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village. It has a central group of

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s around a central

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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. Some very deep

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areas have been excavated from the village surrounding the mounds and plazas, some as deep as to thick, attesting to the long term habitation of this site.

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Early shell tempering in far Western Kentucky
Middle Mississippian culture Geography of Fulton County, Kentucky Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky National Register of Historic Places in Fulton County, Kentucky Late Woodland period Mounds in Kentucky {{US-archaeology-stub

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