Excavations at the Pharr Mounds, Prentiss and Itawamba Counties, Mississippi and Excavations at the Bear Creek Site, Tisomingo County, Mississippi

Summary

The Pharr Site has long been regarded as one of the most impressive archeological sites on the Natchez Trace Parkway and accordingly has been proposed for development as an exhibit-in-place. In order to provide information for its interpretation, the National Park Service carried out archeological investigations there during the summer of 1966. The fieldwork was supervised by the author. As in the past, this project was expedited by the splendid cooperation of the Parkway staff. I would particularly like to thank the maintenance division for its help in setting up the grid system and making other aid available when requested. Two sites on the Natchez Trace Parkway, both located on Section 3-A in northeastern Mississippi, were excavated by the author for the National Park Service during the summer of 1965. These sites had been proposed as interpretive features, and their investigation was undertaken to provide information for this purpose. The first, called the Bear Creek Site, consists of the damaged remnant of a small temple mound and a village area. The other, the Cave Springs Site, is situated approximately one-half mile to the west of the Bear Creek mound. This locale is a large oval sinkhole with overhanging ledges at each end forming shallow rock shelters. Test excavations at the Cave Springs Site revealed only a small patch of darkened soil, containing a handful of flakes and two crudely chipped and apparently unfinished, stemmed dart points, in the rock shelter in front of the southeast cave.

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Sponsor(s): National Park Service; U.S. Department of the Interior; Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Department of the Interior

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NADB document id number(s): 5600835

NADB citation id number(s): 000000239931

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