Feltus Mound Site Explained

Feltus Mound Site 22 JE 500
Map Type:	USA Mississippi
Coordinates:	31.7466°N -91.2603°W
Location:	Fayette, Mississippi, Jefferson County, Mississippi,  United States
Region:	Jefferson County, Mississippi
Built:	700 CE
Abandoned:	1000 CE
Cultures:	Coles Creek culture
Precolumbian:	yes

Feltus Mound Site (22 JE 500), also known as the Ferguson Mounds or the Truly Mounds,^[1] is an archaeological site located in Jefferson County, Mississippi, nearly 24km (15miles) north of Natchez. The location is an Early Coles Creek site (dated 700 to 1000 CE) with four platform mounds clustered around a central plaza, although one of the four mounds has been leveled.^[2]

See also

• Emerald Mound
• Grand Village of the Natchez

External links

• Web site: Feltus Project (Vin Steponaitis). Research Laboratories of Archaeology . 2013-02-24.
• Web site: Bear Ceremonialism at Feltus . Kassabaum, Megan . 2012-10-08 . SEACUnderground.
• Web site: Understanding the Mounds at Feltus: Their Location, Use and Significance . 2013-02-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110111091455/http://visitnatchez.com/custom/webpage2.cfm?content=EventsDetail&id=1743&CFID=30369992&CFTOKEN=54868129&cat=Events . 2011-01-11 .
• Web site: Coles Creek Earthworks and Ritual at the Feltus Mounds in Southwest Mississippi, AD 700-1100 . Academia.edu . 2013-02-24.
• News: Lane, Emily . Archaeology students dig in Church Hill . Natchez Democrat. 2012-06-13 .
• Feltus Mounds : Vin Steponaitis interview about the 2012 dig at the Feltus Mounds funded in part by The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Notes and References

1. Web site: Coles Creek Earthworks and Ritual at the Feltus Mounds in Southwest Mississippi, AD 700-1100 . Steponaitis, Vincas . Kassabaum, Megan . O'Hear, John . Research Laboratories of Archaeology . 2013-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130223032809/http://rla.unc.edu/Feltus/Reports/Steponaitis%20et%20al%202012%20SAA.pdf . 2013-02-23 . dead .
2. The Paleoethnobotany of the Feltus Mounds Site . Undergraduate Honors . University of North Carolina Chapel Hill . Williams, Leah . 2008 . 2013-02-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130223032854/http://rla.unc.edu/Feltus/Reports/Williams%202008%20BA.pdf . 2013-02-23 .