🧿 Sims site

United States · Americas · 29.85°N, 90.45°W

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The Sims site (16SC2), also known as Sims Place site, is an archaeological site located in Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana, near the town of Paradis. The location is a multi-component mound and village complex with platform mounds and extensive midden deposits. The site habitations are divided into three periods. It was first inhabited about 800 CE by peoples of the Coastal Coles Creek culture. By 1100 CE the culture of the site had transitioned into the Mississippianized Plaquemine culture that lasted until 1450 CE. A little later was a Late Mississippian/protohistoric period that lasted from 1500 until about 1700 or 1800.

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CountryUnited States
Continent / regionAmericas
Coordinates (approx.)29.85°N, 90.45°W · view on map

Sims site is located in United States, in Americas.

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