Location | Patterson, Louisiana USA |
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Region | St. Mary Parish, Louisiana |
Coordinates | 29°43′21.07″N 91°17′56.868″W / 29.7225194°N 91.29913000°W |
History | |
Founded | 980 CE |
Abandoned | 18th century |
Cultures | Coastal Coles Creek, Plaquemine, Chitimacha |
Site notes | |
Archaeologists | Clarence Bloomfield Moore |
Architecture | |
Architectural styles | platform mounds |
Responsible body: private |
The Atchafalaya Basin Mounds (16 SMY 10) (variously known as the Patterson Mounds, Patterson site, Moro Plantation Mounds[1] and as the protohistoric village of Qiteet Kuti´ngi Na´mu by the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana[2]) is an archaeological site originally occupied by peoples of the Coastal Coles Creek and Plaquemine cultures beginning around 980 CE,[3] and by their presumed historic period descendants, the Chitimacha, during the 18th century.[4] It is located in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana on the northern bank of Bayou Teche at its confluence with the Lower Atchafalaya River. It consists of several earthen platform mounds and a shell midden situated around a central plaza.[5] The site was visited by Clarence Bloomfield Moore in 1913.[1]