The Greenhouse site (16 AV 2) is an archaeological site of the Troyville-Coles Creek culture (400 to 1000 CE) in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
 Layout of the site | |
  Greenhouse site Location within Louisiana today | |
| Location | Marksville, Louisiana, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana,  USA |
|---|---|
| Region | Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 31°8′22.31″N 92°2′25.73″W / 31.1395306°N 92.0404806°W |
| History | |
| Founded | 400 CE |
| Abandoned | 1000 |
| Cultures | Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1938 |
| Archaeologists | James A. Ford, |
| Responsible body: private | |
Greenhouse is the most extensively excavated Troyville-Coles Creek site in Louisiana. The site consists of seven platform mounds surrounding a central plaza that measures 200 feet (61 m) by 350 feet (110 m). Archaeologists have not found an associated village for the site, which supports the theory that the site was ceremonial in nature and that its builders lived elsewhere.[1] Mound A (12 feet (3.7 m) in height, with a base 120 feet (37 m) square and a summit 80 feet (24 m) square), Mound E (10 feet (3.0 m) in height, with a base 120 feet (37 m) square and a summit 80 feet (24 m) square) and Mound G are the 3 largest mounds at the site and form a triangle.[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Louisiana Prehistory:Marksville, Troyville-Coles Creek, and Caddo". Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
- ^ Edwin A. Lyon (1996-03-30). A new deal for southeastern archaeology. University Alabama Press. pp. 85–90. ISBN 978-0-8173-0791-2.
Greenhouse site, in Avoyelles Parish.
External links edit
- Jones, Dennis (1991). Weinsten, Richard A. (ed.). "The Avoyelles Prairie Terrace : Concentrated Archaeology" (PDF). Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter. 18 (1). Louisiana Archaeological Society: 10–15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-15.
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- THE CADDO MOUNDBUILDER'S LEGACY
- Time's river: archaeological syntheses from the lower Mississippi River Valley By Janet Rafferty, Evan Peacock