Jaketown

Jaketown Pictures

Jaketown Historic Pictures

Jaketown Virtual Model

The Jaketown site consists of a large mound group with an associated village; mound A was cut in half for road construction decades ago, so its original shape is not clear; mound B is pyramidal with a ramp on the east side; sherds were collected from the tops of mounds F and G and the area around mound A (LMS Archives Online, 20-O-1). Pieces of bones and a large portion of a skeleton were uncovered in the fields surrounding the mounds that had been plowed down; ceramics found at the site were mostly plain earthenware, only some shell-tempered, and a few were colored red on both sides, which tested to be iron oxide (LMS Archives Online, 20-O-1).

The site's artifact assemblage is mainly of the Poverty Point culture, including some local Tchefuncte and early Issaquena/Paxton components as well (Phillips 1970, 404-6). The first archaeological surveys at the site in 1941 revealed well over 4000 ceramic sherds from the Poverty Point culture to the Mississippian, though the mounds were created in the Woodland period (Ford, Phillips, and Haag 1955, 13). Many points and other lithic tools have also been discovered at the Jaketown site (LMS Archives Online, 20-O-1).