Peck Mounds

Peck Mounds 16 CT 1
Arrangement of the mounds at the Peck site
Peck Mounds Location within Louisiana today
Coordinates:
Location
Country:	USA
Region:	Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Nearest town:	Sicily Island, Louisiana
History
Culture:	Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture
First occupied:	650 CE
Abandoned:	860
Excavation and maintenance
Responsible body:	private
Architecture

Peck Mounds (16 CT 1) is an archaeological site of the Late Troyville-Early Coles Creek culture(650 to 860 CE) in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.

1 Description
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Description

The mounds are located in the vicinity of the Ferry Place Plantation house. It consists of five mounds, of which one is no longer visible. Three of the remaining mounds are low dome-shaped bumps measuring roughly 4 feet (1.2 m) in height, with their bases being about 100 feet (30 m) by 130 feet (40 m). Mound E, the largest and most southernmost mound, is a platform mound measuring 18 feet (5.5 m) in height, with the base being 165 feet (50 m) by 180 feet (55 m) and a summit area measuring 65 feet (20 m) by 55 feet (17 m). The site is situated on Maçon Ridge and overlooks Lake Lovelace.^[1] It was added to the NRHP on August 29, 1980 as part of the Ferry Place National Register District, NRIS number 80001711.^[2] The site is first mentioned by James A. Ford in 1933 when he conducted investigations at the nearby Peck Village Site, which is also located next to the lake .75 miles (1.21 km) south of the mound site.^[3]

References

^ "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana:Peck Mounds". http://www.crt.state.la.us/archaeology/moundsguide/Peck.html. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
^ "National Register of Historic Places". http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreghome.do?searchtype=natreghome. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
^ "Ferry Place". http://www.crt.state.la.us/hp/nationalregister/nhl/parish13/scans/13003001.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-27.

External links

Ferry Place

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

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Peck Mounds

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