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Carlisle County · Prehistoric · 1100 – 1300

Turk Site, Carlisle County

In Carlisle County, the Turk Site (15Ce6) was a small Mississippian regional center of about 2.5 hectares.

Occupied mainly in the Dorena phase (about 1100–1300 CE) and into the Medley phase, it arranged platform mounds around a plaza and may have drawn people from the older Marshall Site (15Ce27), also in Carlisle County. Richard Edging's 1980s work remains the key modern investigation.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Turk Site, Carlisle County." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 20, 2026. Last revised October 24, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/turk-site-carlisle-county/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Turk Site, Carlisle County." Kentucky History Drive, published 20 Sept. 2026, last revised 24 Oct. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/turk-site-carlisle-county/.

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