Baytown Site

Baytown Site 3 MO 1
A map of the Baytown Site
Location
Country	USA
Region	Monroe County, Arkansas
Nearest town	Indian Bay, Arkansas
History
Culture	Baytown culture, Plum Bayou culture
Excavation and maintenance
Responsible body	private
Architecture
Architectural styles	platform mounds, plaza
Number of monuments
Baytown Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP Reference #	76000440.[1]
Added to NRHP	May 13, 1976

The Baytown Site (3 MO 1) is a Pre-Columbian Native American archaeological site located on the White River at Indian Bay, in Monroe County, Arkansas. It was first inhabited by peoples of the Baytown culture (300 to 700 CE) and later briefly by peoples of the Plum Bayou culture (650 to 1050 CE),^[2] in a time known as the Late Woodland period. It is considered the type site of the Baytown culture.

It was added to the NRHP on May 13, 1976 as NRIS number 76000440.^[1]

Description

The site consisted of nine platform mounds arranged around an open plaza. The two tallest mounds were 20 feet (6.1 m) and 10 feet (3.0 m) in height, with others standing at 5 feet (1.5 m) in height or less.^[3]

See also

• Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley

References

External links

v t e Baytown and Troyville cultures Late Woodland period List of archaeological periods (North America) Baytown sites Baytown Site Holly Bluff Site Roland Site Winterville Mounds Troyville sites DePrato Mounds Greenhouse Site Marsden Mounds Mott Archaeological Preserve Peck Mounds Troyville Earthworks Venable Mound Related topics Coles Creek culture Eastern Agricultural Complex Fourche Maline culture Marksville culture Platform mound Plum Bayou culture

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