Research notes: Sassafras Ridge (15Fu3)

Site

• NRHP-listed (information potential); address restricted; periods of significance AD 0–1499. Sources: NPG
• Studied with Adams and Wickliffe in R. Barry Lewis’s 1986 Kentucky Heritage Council report. Sources: Tdar
• One of several Mississippian mound centers in Fulton and bordering counties; 2019 NAGPRA notice found no cultural affiliation with a present-day tribe. Sources: FR

Cut

• Mound count, ceramic types and owl-effigy fragment: only in a thesis that could not be loaded, so cut.
• Exact location details in the federal notice are not repeated here.

Timeline

1. 1000 Mississippian occupation begins (approximate). Sources: NPG
2. 1500 Occupation ends (approximate). Sources: NPG

People

• R. Barry Lewis Archaeologist, 1986 report

Open questions

• A loadable public source for the mound count and ceramics.

Sources

Primary sources

• “Sassafras Ridge (Site 15 FU 3),” NRIS 84000285, NPGallery, National Park Service. (opens in a new tab)
• “Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University,” Federal Register, June 28, 2019. (opens in a new tab)

Secondary sources

• R. Barry Lewis, Mississippian Towns of the Western Kentucky Border: the Adams, Wickliffe, and Sassafras Ridge Sites (Kentucky Heritage Council, 1986), tDAR 50000. (opens in a new tab)