Atchafalaya Basin Mounds

Atchafalaya Basin Mounds
16 SMY 10
Atchafalaya Basin Mounds is located in Louisiana
Atchafalaya Basin Mounds
Location within Louisiana today
LocationPatterson, Louisiana USA
RegionSt. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Coordinates29°43′21.07″N 91°17′56.868″W / 29.7225194°N 91.29913000°W / 29.7225194; -91.29913000
History
Founded980 CE
Abandoned18th century
CulturesCoastal Coles Creek, Plaquemine, Chitimacha
Site notes
ArchaeologistsClarence Bloomfield Moore
Architecture
Architectural stylesplatform 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]

  1. ^ a b Moore, Clarence Bloomfield (Jan 6, 2004). Weinstein, Richard A. (ed.). The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. University of Alabama Press. pp. 142–144. ISBN 978-0817312763.
  2. ^ Bernard, Shane K. (Nov 3, 2016). Teche: A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1496809414.
  3. ^ "Louisiana Archaeology Week" (PDF). Newsletter of the Louisiana Archaeological Society. Vol. 34, no. 2. Fall 2006.
  4. ^ Rees, Mark A. (2007). "Plaquemine Mounds of the western Atchafalaya Basin". In Rees, Mark A.; Livingood, Patrick C. (eds.). Plaquemine Archaeology. University of Alabama Press. pp. 84–93.
  5. ^ Historical and archaeological investigations of Fort Bisland and Lower Bayou Tech, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana (PDF), US Army Corps of Engineers, 1991, retrieved 2017-12-12