Sundown Mounds


Sundown Mounds is a multimound archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana from the Early Coles [Creek culture].
It is the type site for the Sundown Phase of the Tensas Basin and Natchez Bluff Coles Creek chronology.

Description

The site is located on the western bank of Little Choctaw Bayou and has three platform mounds that form a triangle surrounding a plaza, a typical Coles Creek arrangement. Mound A, the largest mound, is an in height and its base measures by and a summit measuring by. Mound B, the second largest, is located to the northwest of Mound A. It is in height with base measurements of by and its summit by. Mound C is with base measurements of by with a dome-shaped summit. Mounds A and B had ramps from their summits down to the plaza. The mounds were constructed sometime between 750 and 800 CE, but the site was occupied during most of the Coles Creek period from 700 to 1200.