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Butler County · Prehistoric · 3000 BCE – 1000 BCE

Carlston Annis Shell Mound

On the Green River floodplain in Butler County, Carlston Annis (15Bt5) is a Late Archaic shell midden about 300 by 350 feet and more than six feet thick, piled up beside a mussel shoal between roughly 3000 and 1000 BC.

WPA crews under William S. Webb dug nearly half an acre in 1940–41; later work by the Shell Mound Archaeological Project refined the picture. The site yielded hundreds of burials, dog burials, hearths, pestle caches, and deer-bone pins—evidence of repeated seasonal camps, not a one-night stop.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Carlston Annis Shell Mound." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 12, 2026. Last revised September 15, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/carlston-annis-shell-mound/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Carlston Annis Shell Mound." Kentucky History Drive, published 12 Sept. 2026, last revised 15 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/carlston-annis-shell-mound/.

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