Mississippi Indian Mound Sites worked in March 2004

Red working Hollywood Indian Mound - full burial (MPEG)

Alley working Hollywood Indian Mound - full burial (blind problem) (MPEG)

On March 24, 2006 after a week of heavy downpours on the newly brush-cleared mound, human remains were found confirming the dogs' indications from years ago.

Archeology lectures, demonstrations, and field exercises lead by Mississippi Department of Archives and History archeologists, a DMORT forensic anthropologist, and an University of MS Center for Archeological Research (remote sensing & archaeogeophysics) analyst.  The participating canines worked the following sites:

1. Winterville Mounds

   • 1400 AD terminal date

   • historic burials - 1800’s (1850-1900)

2. Nowell Historic Cemetery

   • 1900-1925
      

3. Walford Mounds

   • 800 AD - 1200 AD

   •  Historic cemetery dates?

4. Parchman Place Mounds

   •   1000 AD - 1500 AD

     •  late Mississippian

   • Historic graves 1870’s - 1890’s, 1920’s

     • (somewhere in there many were buried due to Yellow Fever)

5. Hollywood Mounds (blind tests)

   • 900 AD circa 1700 (occupied)

   • late Mississippian 1350-1450-1700

   • bones plowed up in field by Hollywood mounds - 900 AD - 1700 AD

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