Greenhouse site

Greenhouse site
16 AV 2

Layout of the site
Greenhouse site Location within Louisiana today
Location	Marksville, Louisiana, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, USA
Region	Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Coordinates	31°8′22.31″N 92°2′25.73″W
History
Founded	400 CE
Abandoned	1000
Cultures	Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture
Site notes
Excavation dates	1938
Archaeologists	James A. Ford,
Responsible body: private

The Greenhouse site (16 AV 2) is an archaeological site of the Troyville-Coles Creek culture (400 to 1000 CE) in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.

Greenhouse is the most extensively excavated Troyville-Coles Creek site in Louisiana. The site consists of seven platform mounds surrounding a central plaza that measures 200 feet (61 m) by 350 feet (110 m). Archaeologists have not found an associated village for the site, which supports the theory that the site was ceremonial in nature and that its builders lived elsewhere. Mound A (12 feet (3.7 m) in height, with a base 120 feet (37 m) square and a summit 80 feet (24 m) square), Mound E (10 feet (3.0 m) in height, with a base 120 feet (37 m) square and a summit 80 feet (24 m) square) and Mound G are the 3 largest mounds at the site and form a triangle.

See also

• Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley

External links

• Jones, Dennis (1991). Weinsten, Richard A. (ed.). "The Avoyelles Prairie Terrace : Concentrated Archaeology" (PDF). Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter. 18 (1). Louisiana Archaeological Society: 10–15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-15.
• Reconnecting the Present to the Past:The Caddo People Return to the Lower Red River Valley:Caddo Connections to the Lower Mississippi Valley
• Archaeological coring used at Greenhouse
• Archaeology of Louisiana By Mark A. Rees, Ian W. (FRW) Brown
• THE CADDO MOUNDBUILDER'S LEGACY Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Time's river: archaeological syntheses from the lower Mississippi River Valley By Janet Rafferty, Evan Peacock