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Twin Mounds Site
Near Barlow in Ballard County, just north of where the Ohio meets the Mississippi, Twin Mounds (15Ba2 / Nolan; village 15Ba14) was a Mississippian administrative center with two platform mounds around a plaza and a village midden up to about two meters thick.
Principal occupation ran about 1200–1450 CE (Dorena and Medley phases). It stood contemporary with Wickliffe Mounds a few miles southeast; as Wickliffe thinned around 1300, people appear to have shifted toward Twin Mounds. Excavations recovered a rare Cahokia-style flint-clay human effigy pipe carved from Missouri pipestone.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Twin Mounds Site." Kentucky History Drive. Published October 2, 2026. Last revised October 2, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/twin-mounds-site/.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Twin Mounds Site." Kentucky History Drive, published 2 Oct. 2026, last revised 2 Oct. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/twin-mounds-site/.
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