Routh Mounds

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Routh Mounds
Routh Mounds is located in Louisiana
Routh Mounds
Location within Louisiana today
Coordinates: 32°1′15.852″N 91°12′46.1874″W / 32.02107°N 91.212829833°W / 32.02107; -91.212829833
Location
Country:  USA
Region: Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Nearest town: Newellton, Louisiana
History
Culture: Plaquemine culture
Period: Routh Phase
Excavation and maintenance
Responsible body: private
Architecture

Routh Mounds is a Plaquemine culture archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It is the type site for the Routh Phase(1200 to 1350 CE) of the Tensas Basin Plaquemine Mississippian chronology.[1] It is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the Winter Quarters State Historic Site.

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  1. ^ Hally, David J. (1972). "Chapter 3 : Routh Phase". The Plaquemine and Mississippian Occupations of the Upper Tensas Basin, Louisiana (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. http://rla.unc.edu/Archives/LMSfiles/Hally1972/Hally%201972.ch3.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-28. 

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