Greenhouse Site

Greenhouse Site 16 AV 2
Greenhouse Site Location within Louisiana today
Coordinates:
Location
Country:	USA
Region:	Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Nearest town:	Marksville, Louisiana
History
Culture:	Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture
First occupied:	400 CE
Abandoned:	1000
Excavation and maintenance
Responsible body:	private
Dates excavated:	1938
Notable archaeologists:	James A. Ford,
Architecture

The Greenhouse Site (16 AV 2) is an archaeological site of the Troyville-Coles Creek culture(400 to 1000 CE) in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.

1 Description
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Description

Greenhouse is the most extensively excavated Troyville-Coles Creek site in Louisiana. The site consists of seven platform mounds surrounding a central plaza that measures 200 feet (61 m) by 350 feet (110 m). Archaeologists have not found an associated village for the site, which supports the theory that the site was ceremonial in nature and that its builders lived elsewhere. ^[1] Mound A (12 feet (3.7 m) in height, with a base 120 feet (37 m) square and a summit 80 feet (24 m) square), Mound E (10 feet (3.0 m) in height, with a base 120 feet (37 m) square and a summit 80 feet (24 m) square) and Mound G are the 3 largest mounds at the site and form a triangle.^[2]

References

^ "Louisiana Prehistory:Marksville, Troyville-Coles Creek, and Caddo". http://www.crt.state.la.us/archaeology/virtualbooks/LAPREHIS/marca.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
^ Edwin A. Lyon (1996-03-30). A new deal for southeastern archaeology. University Alabama Press. pp. 85–90. ISBN 978-0817307912. http://books.google.com/books?id=M7B6iUbiL-kC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=Greenhouse+Site,+in+Avoyelles+Parish&source=bl&ots=GVHkpCySjg&sig=4ETq93jBFXlZTc7x38sQ5_1xtKk&hl=en&ei=24OgToycEomvsAKh9oCyBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Greenhouse%20Site%2C%20in%20Avoyelles%20Parish&f=false.

External links

Coles Creek and Plum Bayou cultures

Late Woodland period · List of archaeological periods (North America)

Coles Creek sites	Aden Site · Balmoral Mounds · Churupa Plantation Mound · Coles Creek Site · Crippen Point site · Cypress Grove Mound · DePrato Mounds · Greenhouse Site · Filhiol Mound Site · Fisher Site · Flowery Mound · Frogmore Mound Site · Ghost Site Mounds · Greenhouse Site · Insley Mounds · Kings Crossing Site · Lamarque Landing Mound · Marsden Mounds · Mazique Archeological Site · Mott Mounds · Mound Plantation · Peck Mounds · Raffman Site · Scott Place Mounds · Shackleford Church Mounds · Sundown Mounds · Transylvania Mounds · Troyville Earthworks · Venable Mound · Wade Landing Mound ·

Coastal Coles Creek sites	Atchafalaya Basin Mounds (16SMY10) · Bayou Black Mound (16TR78) · Bayou Cypremont (16SMY7) · Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds · Bayou L’Ours Site · Bayou Portage Mounds · Bayou Sorrel Mounds (16IV4) · Clovelly Site (16LF64) · Cypress Point Site (16VM112) · Eagle Point Site (16IB123) · Gibson Mounds (16TR5) · Greenwood Cemetery Site (16SMY10) · Kleinpeter Mounds · Little Cheniere Site (16CM22) · Little Pecan Island Site (16CM43) · Jerry Haas Site (16SJ51) · Machias Lake (16SB2) · Morgan Mounds (16VM9) · Pecan Mounds (16SM37) · Pennison Mounds (16AS16) · Portage Mounds (16SM5) · Richeau Field Site (16TR82) · Schwing Place Mound (16IV13) · Southwest of Cut Off Lagoon (16SB50) · St. Gabriel Mounds (16IV128) · Temple Mounds Site (16LF4) ·

Plum Bayou sites	Chandler Landing Site · Coy Site (3LN20) · Dogtown Site · Hayes Site (35CS196) · Maberry Site · Roland Site (3AR30) · Toltec Mounds ·

Related topics · Eastern Agricultural Complex · Fourche Maline culture · Mississippian culture · Natchez · Plaquemine culture · Platform mound · Taensa · Troyville culture ·

Pre-Columbian North America

Archaeological cultures	North American pre-Columbian chronology – Adena – Alachua – Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) – Baytown – Belle Glade – Buttermilk Creek Complex – Caborn-Welborn – Calf Creek – Caloosahatchee – Clovis – Coles Creek – Deptford – Folsom – Fort Ancient – Fort Walton – Fremont – Glades – Glacial Kame – Hopewell (List of Hopewell sites) – Hohokam – Leon-Jefferson – Mississippian (List of Mississippian sites) – Mogollon – Monongahela – Old Cordilleran – Oneota – Paleo-Arctic – Paleo-Indians – Patayan – Plano – Plaquemine – Poverty Point – Prehistoric Southwest – Red Ocher – Santa Rosa-Swift Creek – St. Johns – Steed-Kisker – Tchefuncte – Tocobaga – Troyville

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

Miscellaneous	Ballgame – Black drink – Buhl woman – Calumet – Chunkey – Clovis point – Container Revolution – Eastern Agricultural Complex – Eden point – Effigy mound – Falcon dancer – Folsom point – Green Corn Ceremony – Horned Serpent – Kennewick man – Kiva – Metallurgy – Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing – Medicine wheel – Mound builders – N.A.G.P.R.A. – Norse colonization of the Americas – Piasa – Pueblo dwellings – Southeastern Ceremonial Complex – Three Sisters agriculture – Thunderbird – Underwater panther

Related: Genetic history · Indigenous Portal of North America · Pre-Columbian era

Greenhouse Site

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Description

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