Eaker Site

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Significant dates
Eaker Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Overview of the site

Nearest city:	Blytheville, Arkansas
Coordinates:	35°57′48″N 89°56′4″W / 35.96333°N 89.93444°W / 35.96333; -89.93444Coordinates: 35°57′48″N 89°56′4″W / 35.96333°N 89.93444°W / 35.96333; -89.93444
Governing body:	AIR FORCE
NRHP Reference#:	91001048
Added to NRHP:	November 25, 1992^[1]
Designated NHL:	June 19, 1996^[2]

The Eaker Site (3MS105) is an archaeological site on Eaker Air Force Base near Blytheville, Arkansas that was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1996.^[2]^[3]

The site is the largest and most intact Late Mississippian Nodena Phase village site within the Central Mississippi Valley.^[4] It also shows evidence of Quapaw occupation.

Like many Mississippian culture settlements, it is located on the bank of a river, the Pemiscot Bayou. Pemiscot Bayou is located in the St. Francis Basin of the Mississippi Valley. The Eaker site is large but has no known mound, although it is rumored to have once had one.^[5]

References [edit]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
^ ^a ^b "Eaker Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-27.
^ ["Eaker Site", January 14, 1994, by David Carmichael and edited by Michael R. Barnes (large PDF file) PDF (40.5 MiB) "National Historic Landmark Nomination"]. National Park Service. 1994-01-14.
^ "National Historic Landmarks Program-Eaker Site". Retrieved 2009-05-31.
^ "Archaeology at Eaker-Blytheville Research Station". Retrieved 2009-05-31.

Mississippian and related cultures

Middle Mississippian

American Bottom and Upper Mississippi	Aztalan Big Eddy Cahokia Monks Mound Mound 34 Mound 72 Woodhenge Cloverdale Dickson Mounds Emmons Cemetery John Roy Kuhn Station Mitchell Orendorf Sugarloaf Mound Steed-Kisker culture

Lower Ohio River and Confluence area	Adams Kincaid Mounds Marshall Millstone Bluff Rowlandton Mound Towosahgy Turk Twin Mounds Wickliffe Mounds

Middle Ohio River	Angel Mounds Angel Phase Annis Mound Bone Bank Caborn-Welborn culture Ellerbusch Hovey Lake-Klein Hovey Lake District Murphy Prather Slack Farm Tolu Welborn Village Yankeetown

Tennessee and Cumberland	Beasley Mounds Brentwood Library Brick Church Castalian Springs Dunbar Cave Fewkes Group Mound Bottom Riverview Mounds Archaeological Site Sellars Indian Mound Obion Mounds Old Town Swallow Bluff Island Mounds

Central and Lower Mississippi	Belle Meade Phase Boyd Mounds Campbell Chucalissa Eaker Menard-Hodges Murphy Mound Parkin Nodena Phase Nodena Site Tipton Phase Tunica Walls Phase

South Appalachian
Mississippian

Fort Walton culture

Pensacola culture

Plaquemine Mississippian

Caddoan Mississippian

Upper Mississippian
cultures

Oneota	Beattie Park Mound Group Blood Run Hartley Fort State Preserve Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs

Fort Ancient culture	Alligator Effigy Mound Clover Dodge Leo Petroglyph Serpent Mound SunWatch Indian Village

Culture

Artwork	Emmons mask Long-nosed god maskette Mississippian copper plates Rogan plates Spiro plates Wulfing cache Mississippian culture pottery Mississippian stone statuary Shell gorget

Languages	Caddoan languages Central Algonquian languages Cherokee language Mobilian Jargon Muskogean languages Natchez language Siouan languages Timucua language Tunica language Yuchi language

Religion	Ballgame Black drink Calumet (pipe) Chunkey Earth/fertility cult Green Corn Ceremony Horned Serpent Platform mound Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Stone box grave Thunderbird Underwater panther

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Periods Lithic Archaic Formative Classic Post-Classic

Archaeological cultures	Adena Alachua Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) Baytown Belle Glade Buttermilk Creek Complex Caborn-Welborn Calf Creek Caloosahatchee Clovis Coles Creek Deptford Folsom Fort Ancient Fort Walton Fremont Glades Glacial Kame Hopewell List of Hopewell sites Hohokam Leon-Jefferson Mississippian List of Mississippian sites Mogollon Monongahela Old Cordilleran Oneota Paleo-Arctic Paleo-Indians Patayan Plano Plaquemine Poverty Point Prehistoric Southwest Red Ocher Santa Rosa-Swift Creek St. Johns Steed-Kisker Tchefuncte Tocobaga Troyville

Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds Bandelier National Monument The Bluff Point Stoneworks Cahokia Chaco Canyon Casa Grande Coso Rock Art District Eaker Effigy Mounds National Monument Etowah Indian Mounds Eva Folsom Site Fort Ancient Fort Center Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Holly Bluff Site Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Kincaid Mounds Kolomoki Manitou Cliff Dwellings Marksville Meadowcroft Rockshelter Mesa Verde Moorehead Circle Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena Site Ocmulgee National Monument Old Stone Fort Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Portsmouth Earthworks Poverty Point Pueblo Bonito Rock Eagle Rock Hawk Russell Cave National Monument Salmon Ruins Serpent Mound Spiro Mounds SunWatch Taos Pueblo Toltec Mounds Town Creek Indian Mound Winterville

Miscellaneous	Ballgame Black drink Buhl Woman Calumet Chunkey Clovis point Container Revolution Eastern Agricultural Complex Eden point Effigy mound Falcon dancer Folsom point Green Corn Ceremony Horned Serpent Kennewick Man Kiva Metallurgy Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing Medicine wheel Mound builders N.A.G.P.R.A. Norse colonization of the Americas Piasa Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Three Sisters agriculture Thunderbird Underwater panther

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