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Record Details
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17450
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- World Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- State/Province
- Louisiana
- County/District
- Avoyelles
- Political Location
- Marksville
- Archaeological Site Name
- Marksville Mounds
- Archaeological Site Number
- 16-Av-1
- Period
- Hopewell
- Culture
- Hopewell
- Description
- Reconstructed Marksville Mound 4. The most famous Marksville conical mound was excavated by Fowke in 1926, explored by John R. Swanton in 1930, and further excavated by Frank Setzler and James A. Ford in 1933 (see Toth 1974 for details). The mound, approximately 33 meters in diameter and 7 meters in height, into which a burial vault had been sunk. Somewhere between 35 and 60 burials were located in Mound 4, most of them in the burial vault and on t
- Image Categories
- Architecture: Funerary
- Source Type Detail
- Photographer (Original): Unknown
Technical Details
- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 4576 x 3086
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 23365
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-23365/23365
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"Reconstructed Marksville Mound 4. The most famous Marksville conical mound was excavated by Fowke in 1926, explored by John R. Swanton in 1930, and further excavated by Frank Setzler and James A. Ford in 1933 (see Toth 1974 for details). The mound, approximately 33 meters in diameter and 7 meters in height, into which a burial vault had been sunk. Somewhere between 35 and 60 burials were located in Mound 4, most of them in the burial vault and on t". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-23365/23365. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 25, 2024.