Turk Site
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| Turk Site 15 CE 6 | |
|---|---|
 Looking toward the site from the south | |
  Turk Site 15 CE 6 | |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 36°53′41.17″N 89°5′6.79″W / 36.8947694°N 89.0852194°W |
| Country |
 USA |
| Region | Carlisle County, Kentucky |
| Nearest town | Bardwell, Kentucky |
| History | |
| Culture | Mississippian culture |
| Excavation and maintenance | |
| Responsible body | private |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural styles | Platform mounds, Plaza |
The Turk Site (15CE6) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Bardwell in Carlisle County, Kentucky, on a bluff spur overlooking the Mississippi River floodplain.
Site
The 2.5 hectare site was occupied primarily during the Dorena Phase(1100 to 1300 CE) and into the Medley Phase(1300-1500 CE) of the local chronology.[1] Its inhabitants may have moved from the Marshall Site, which is located on the nearest adjacent bluff spur.
For a regional administrative center, Turk is a small site, but this is because of constraints placed on it by the geography of the bluff spur it sits on. The layout of the site is characteristically Mississippian, with a number of mounds surrounding a central plaza.[2][3]
See also
References
- ↑ Lewis, R. Barry (1996). "Chapter 2:The Western Kentucky border and the Cairo lowland". In McNutt, Charles H. Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley. University of Alabama Press. pp. 67–70. ISBN 978-0817308070.
- ↑ Lewis, R. Barry (1996). "Chapter 5:Mississippian Farmers". Kentucky Archaeology. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 128–130. ISBN 0-8131-1907-3.
- ↑ Pollack, David (2008), "Chapter 6:Mississippi Period", in David Pollack, The Archaeology of Kentucky:An update, Kentucky Heritage Council, pp. 614–615, retrieved 2010-10-29
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