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The Carson site, also known as the Carson Mounds and/or Carson-Montgomery-Stovall 〔Phillips et al 2003〕〔Brown 1978〕〔Brown 1926〕 was once a large Mississippian culture site along the Mississippi River in the Yazoo Basin of Mississippi.〔Johnson 1987〕 The site was first occupied in the middle of the first millennium A.D. and the large earthen monuments and villages were constructed at the site after A.D. 1200.〔Mehta et al 2012〕 Only a few large earthen mounds are still present at Carson to this day. Some archaeologists have suggested that Carson was one of the more important archaeological sites in the state of Mississippi.〔Brown 1978〕〔Mehta et al 2012〕 Archaeologists have also suggested that Carson is important because it was either near or part of one of the provinces visited by some of the earliest conquistadors in the southeastern United States.〔Brain et al 1974〕〔Hudson 1997〕 There is no physical evidence that Carson was visited by Hernando de Soto and his men during the westward trek across the southeastern United States. However, they did pass at the very least within 50 – 75 km of Carson and the social disruptions caused by Soto and his men did cause native polities and provinces like Carson to defragment and fall apart . Carson was first visited by early European explorers in the late nineteenth century, including surveyors for Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, Col. Philetus W. Norris and William Henry Holmes.〔Thomas 1891, 1894〕 The site was located on the Oasis Plantation owned by the Stovall and Carson families and a map of the landscape and mounds was published in 1894 in the 12th Annual Report to the Bureau of American Ethnology by Cyrus Thomas. Subsequent researchers to visit the site include the Harvard LMS survey, Ian Brown, Jay K. Johnson, John Connaway, and Jayur Madhusudan Mehta.〔Johnson 1987〕〔Brown 1978〕〔Phillips et al 1951〕 This map, in addition to research by archaeologists, established the significant scale of settlement at the site. The mounds stretch across an expanse of land over 1.6 km in length. In the greater pantheon of Mississippian culture sites, Carson is quite large, and it was incredibly important in local and regional political dynamics.〔Dye and Cox 1990〕 The Carson Mounds site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.〔 〕 ==Site Characteristics== Carson is located in the northern Yazoo Basin, approximately 500 km north from the Gulf of Mexico and 120 km south from Memphis, Tennessee. The Yazoo Basin is a floodplain of the Mississippi River and features a variety of geomorphic features created by meandering channels of the Mississippi River.〔Saucier 1994〕 Carson and the mounds were constructed over a crevasse splay which was deposited by the Mississippi River around 2800 years ago.〔Mehta et al 2012〕 The modern city of Clarksdale, Mississippi is nearby.〔(Mississippi Blues Trail )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carson Mounds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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