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Cultures
  
Mississippian culture

NRHP Reference #
  
84001421

Region
  
Fulton County, Kentucky

Architectural details
  
Number of monuments:

Area
  
8 ha

Added to NRHP
  
15 March 1984

Adams Site

Location
  
Hickman, Kentucky, Fulton County, Kentucky,  USA

The Adams Site (15FU4) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Hickman in Fulton County, Kentucky,on Bayou de Chien, a creek that drains into the nearby Mississippi River. The 7.25-hectare site is built over the remains of a Late Woodland village. It has a central group of platform mounds around a central plaza and another smaller plaza area to the southwest of the largest mound. The site was occupied from 1100 to 1500 CE during the Medley (1100 to 1300) and Jackson (1300 to 1500) phases of the local chronology. Some very deep midden areas have been excavated from the village surrounding the mounds and plazas, some as deep as 1 metre (3.3 ft) to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) thick, attesting to the long term habitation of this site.

References

Adams Site Wikipedia