Hovey Lake-Klein Archeological Site ( 12 PO 10) is an archaeological site of the Caborn-Welborn variant of the

Mississippian culture The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally. It was known for building large, eart ...

. Hovey Lake-Klein Archeological Site is located on the west bank of Hovey Lake, a backwater lake near the

Ohio River The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of ...

close to its confluence with the

Wabash River The Wabash River (French: Ouabache) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 river that drains most of the state of Indiana in the United States. It flows from ...

. The site was an extensive village occupation dating between 1400 and 1650 CE.

Description

The site is located on a terrace 3.6 km from the Ohio River adjacent to Hovey Lake, in Indiana. The site is roughly 11.8 ha. There was a centrally located plaza as well as an encircling

palisade A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a fence or defensive wall made from iron or wooden stakes, or tree trunks, and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisades can form a stockade. Etymology ''Palisade ...

with

bastions A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fi ...

. Houses were typical Mississippian rectangular wall trench

wattle and daub Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung a ...

structures set in shallow basins. Many had prepared clay hearths. Located near most houses were special pits used to store

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American English, North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples of Mexico, indigenous ...

and other dried foods. The pits were large enough to have stored enough grain to feed 7 to 12 people for a year.

References

Caborn-Welborn culture Native American history of Indiana Archaeological sites in Indiana Geography of Posey County, Indiana Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures {{PoseyCountyIN-geo-stub

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