Rowlandton Mound Site
15MCN3
Rowlandtown Mound with pit dug by archaeologists
Rowlandton Mound Site is located in Kentucky
Rowlandton Mound Site
Location within Kentucky today
LocationPaducah, Kentucky, McCracken County, Kentucky,  USA
RegionJackson Purchase
Coordinates37°5′42.07″N 88°38′11.29″W / 37.0950194°N 88.6364694°W / 37.0950194; -88.6364694
History
Founded1100 CE
Abandoned1350 CE
CulturesMississippian culture
Site notes
Excavation dates2006
ArchaeologistsDr. Kit Wesler
Architecture
Architectural stylesPlatform mound
Responsible body: private

The Rowlandton Mound Site (15MCN3) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Paducah in McCracken County, Kentucky, on the edge of an old oxbow lake a little south of the Ohio River.

Site description

The site was occupied from about 1100 to about 1350 CE. The 3 hectares (7.4 acres) site has a large platform mound and an associated village area,[1] being roughly similar in size to the Wickliffe Mounds Site in far western Kentucky.[2]

It was once thought that large civic sites in Western Kentucky such as Rowlandton Mound, the Twin Mounds Site and the Tolu Site were expansions of the Kincaid Mounds polity in nearby Southern Illinois in the 13th century, but archaeological excavations in 2006 by Dr. Kit Wesler of Murray State University have shown that this was not the case. It is probable that these civic sites were established originally by local Late Woodland peoples.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kriesa, Paul P. (1998). "Chronology in Western Kentucky". In O'Brien, Michael J.; Dunnell, Robert C. (eds.). Changing perspectives on the archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-0909-8.
  2. 1 2 Pollack, David (2008), "Chapter 6:Mississippi Period" (PDF), in David Pollack (ed.), The Archaeology of Kentucky:An update, Kentucky Heritage Council, pp. 614–615, retrieved 2010-10-29

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