Jefferson County
Platform Mounds
These usually do not contain burials, but were instead used as building sites where temples, carnal houses and/or leaders houses occupied the flat area's at the top of the mound.
Tiered Platform, rectangular. This type of mound is considered a hallmark of the Mississippian period and is the same form as the great Monks Mound at the Cahokia site. This sample is from Jefferson County Arkansas.
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