Turk Site

The Turk Site (15CE6) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Bardwell in Carlisle County, Kentucky, on a bluff spur overlooking the Mississippi River floodplain.

Turk Site
15 CE 6

Looking toward the site from the south
Location within Kentucky today
Location	Bardwell, Kentucky, Carlisle County, Kentucky,  USA
Region	Jackson Purchase
Coordinates	36°53′41.17″N 89°5′6.79″W
History
Cultures	Mississippian culture
Site notes
Architecture
Architectural styles	Platform mounds, Plaza
Responsible body: private

Site

The 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) site was occupied primarily during the Dorena Phase (1100 to 1300 CE) and into the Medley Phase (1300-1500 CE) of the local chronology.^[1] Its inhabitants may have moved from the Marshall Site, which is a slightly older settlement located on the nearest adjacent bluff spur.

For a regional administrative center, Turk is a small site, but this is because of constraints placed on it by the geography of the bluff spur it sits on. The layout of the site is characteristically Mississippian, with a number of platform mounds surrounding a central plaza.^[2][3]

The earliest published investigation at the site was that of Robert Loughridge, published in 1888; the most extensive work at the site was conducted under Richard Edging and published in 1985.^[4]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Carlisle County, Kentucky
• Mississippian stone statuary
• Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
• List of Mississippian sites