Jaketown Site
Jaketown Site is an archaeological site with two prehistoric earthwork mounds in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States. While the mounds have not been excavated, distinctive pottery shards found in the area lead scholars to date the mounds' construction and use to the Mississippian culture period, roughly 1100 CE to 1500 CE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belzoni.
Belzoni
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Belzoni is a city in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta region, on the Yazoo River. The population was 2,235 at the 2010 census.
Jaketown Site
- Type: Mound with an elevation of 121 feet
- Description: archaeological site in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States
- Categories: archaeological site and landform
- Location: Humphreys, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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