- Venable Mound
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Venable Mound 
Venable MoundLocation within Louisiana todayCoordinates: 32°54′3.8982″N 91°46′29.3988″W / 32.901082833°N 91.774833°W Location Country: 
USARegion: Morehouse Parish, Louisiana Nearest town: Bonita, Louisiana History Culture: Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture, Plaquemine culture Excavation and maintenance Responsible body: private Notable archaeologists: Benjamin Brodnax, Clarence Bloomfield Moore Architecture Venable Mound (the last remaining mound of the McTheney Mounds site) is an archaeological site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana with a single mound with components from the Troyville, Coles Creek and Plaquemine period.[1]
Description
The site formerly had three mounds and was a group known as the McTheney Mounds site. It is situated on a natural levee on the east bank of Bayou Bartholomew.[1] The site has been under cultivation since about the 1850s. In the 1870s Benjamin Brodnax of the Smithsonian Institution visited the site when it still had three of its mounds. By the time Clarence Bloomfield Moore came in 1908 it only had two.[2] The one remaining platform mound is approximately 22 feet (6.7 m) in height, with a base 140 feet (43 m) by 140 feet (43 m) square and a summit platform measuring 50 feet (15 m) square. Excavations have shown that the site was first occupied from 400 and 700 CE during the Troyville period. Construction of the mound is dated to 700 to 1200 CE during the Coles Creek period. Analysis of ceramics from the site date have been dated other occupations of the site to 1200 to 1541 during the Plaquemine/Mississippian period.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana:Venable Mound". http://www.crt.state.la.us/archaeology/moundsguide/venable.html. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
- ^ Wes Helbling (2009-10-15). "A look at ancient Morehouse". Bastrop Daily Enterprise. http://www.bastropenterprise.com/news/x1579576681/A-look-at-ancient-Morehouse. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
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Archaeological sites Angel Mounds – Bandelier National Monument – The Bluff Point Stoneworks – Cahokia – Chaco Canyon – Casa Grande – Coso Rock Art District – Eaker – Effigy Mounds National Monument – Etowah Indian Mounds – Eva – Folsom Site – Fort Ancient – Fort Center – Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument – Holly Bluff Site – Hopewell Culture National Historical Park – Kincaid Mounds – Kolomoki – Manitou Cliff Dwellings – Marksville – Meadowcroft Rockshelter – Mesa Verde – Moorehead Circle – Moundville – Mummy Cave – Nodena Site – Ocmulgee National Monument – Old Stone Fort – Parkin Park – Pinson Mounds – Portsmouth Earthworks – Poverty Point – Pueblo Bonito – Rock Eagle – Rock Hawk – Salmon Ruins – Serpent Mound – Spiro Mounds – SunWatch – Taos Pueblo – Toltec Mounds – Town Creek Indian Mound – Winterville
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Categories:- Troyville culture
- Coles Creek culture
- Plaquemine Mississippian culture
- Archaeological sites in Louisiana
- Geography of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
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