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Yon Mound and Village Site

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Founded
  
1200 CE

Architectural styles
  
platform mound

Area
  
20 ha

Added to NRHP
  
15 December 1978

Established
  
December 15, 1978

Cultures
  
Fort Walton Culture,

Architectural details
  
Number of temples:

Region
  
Liberty County, Florida

Archaeologist
  
Clarence Bloomfield Moore

Yon Mound and Village Site

Location
  
Bristol, Florida, Liberty County, Florida, United States

Archaeologists
  
Clarence Bloomfield Moore

The Yon Mound and Village Site (8LI2) is a prehistoric archaeological site located two miles west of Bristol, Florida on the east bank of the Apalachicola River. The site was occupied by peoples of the Fort Walton Culture (a regional variation of the Mississippian culture). On December 15, 1978, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as reference number 78000952.

Site description

Located in the middle Apalachicola River valley of northwest Florida, the site was first occupied briefly during the Swift Creek period at approximately 320 CE. About 1200 CE peoples of the Middle Fort Walton period began occupying the site with the construction of platform mound and associated village site. These people are thought to have been connected with the Cayson Mound and Village Site. The site was later occupied during the protohistoric period by Lamar Phase peoples who migrated down the lower Chattahoochee-Apalachicola River, possibly in the wake of initial European contact in the early 16th century.

It was first recorded and excavated by Clarence Bloomfield Moore in the early 20th century.

References

Yon Mound and Village Site Wikipedia