Andalex Village (15Hk22), Hopkins County

Cultural Resource Analysts investigated it in 1988 and 1989, before a coal mine was developed, and documented a platform mound, at least eleven houses around a central plaza, and a palisade enclosing the community. The mound ended up five feet tall and about 75 by 85 feet; it grew in three stages as the leader’s house on top was rebuilt and the mound capped with clay.

Residents made shell-tempered Mississippi Plain jars, some with incised geometric designs on the necks (Pond River Incised), hunted mainly deer, grew corn, marshelder, maygrass and lambsquarters, and collected hickory nuts. The state archaeology site does not publish the location, so the pin is a county-level point for Hopkins County.