White Site

The White Site, northeast of Hickman in far southwestern Kentucky near the Mississippi River floodplain, is a prehistoric archaeological site with evidence of long, multi-period occupation. First recorded in the early nineteen eighties and tested in nineteen eighty-six, it yielded a burned house dated from A.D. twelve seventy-seven to fourteen twenty-seven, along with pottery, stone tools, animal bone, charcoal, nutshells, and some corn remains. Artifacts showed both Mississippian and Woodland occupations, including Baytown, Jonathan Creek, and Wickliffe influences. The site demonstrated that this was not an isolated farmstead but a village near the Adams site, likely tied to Adams for ceremonial and religious life.

Kentucky · United States