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Hopewell-Copena Sites near Nashville

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Jesse D. Jennings
Jesse D. Jennings*
Affiliation:
National Park Service, Tupelo, Mississippi
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A. J. Waring, Jr. has reported certain Hopewellian elements in northern Georgia. His comments reminded me of a site, previously unreported, in the vicinity of Franklin, Tennessee.

I report from my field notes a site discovered two miles west of Franklin, atop Reid Hill, a knob 140 feet high: “Built on the flat top of the hill, the conical mound measures 18 feet high by 80 feet in diameter. The mound is built of stones and earth. (These stones are large and numerous. It is essentially a stone mound.) A deep trench had been cut into the east side of the mound but no sherds, flint, or other material were visible.” Its situation, on a high hill in the flat Harpeth Valley, is similar to that of the many stone mounds reported from Georgia. No central depression was observed, but it may have been destroyed by the trench. I was unable to learn who dug into the mound so do not know whether artifacts were recovered.

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American Antiquity , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , October 1946 , pp. 126
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946

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References

1 American Antiquity, October, 1945, pp. 119-120.

2 American Antiquity, April, 1944.

3 Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 129.