Location Information
(for the Jaketown Site 22-Hu-505 - Tract 2)
Name:Jaketown Site (22-Hu-505) - Tract 2
City/County:Belzoni vic., Humphreys County
Registration Information
View National Register Nomination Form
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:12-06-1985
Recorded:06-12-1986
Book/Vol. No.:V. 116, p. 763
Context/Comments
One of the most significant archaeological sites in Mississippi because of its long, almost continuous occupation through part of the Pverty Point period (c.1700 B.C. - 400 B.C.) and all subsequent archaeological periods of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Probably initially settled shortly after 1000 B.C. This site has yielded the only house patterns discovered to date for the Tchula and Poverty Point culture.