North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Hollywood Mounds Site; Site Number: 22TU500; County: Tunica; State: MS; Country: USA; Ownership: State; Landform: Natural Levee of an Abandoned Channel of the Mississippi River;

Date of Site: AD 16th Century; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Late Mississippian; Site Type: Cermonial Complex, Mounds; Site Size: _____;

Survey Type: Magnetic Gradiometry;

Instrument: Geoscan Research FM36 Fluxgate Gradiometer; Sampling Interval: 0.125 x 1 m; 0.125 x 0.5 m; 0.25 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 2,800 sq m; Date of Survey: September 1998; June 1999; Land Cover Type: Grass; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Magnetic gradiometer survey of the Hollywood site with contour overlay;	Magnetic gradiometer image of a Mississippian period wall trench house;
Gradiometer data superimposed on the conductivity data;

Survey Type: Electromagnetic Conductivity;

Instrument: Geonics Ltd. EM38; Sampling Interval: 1 x 1 m; 0.5 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: to 1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 28,125 sq m; 6,875 sq m; Date of Survey: June 1997; March 1998; Land Cover Type: Grass; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Conductivity survey of the Hollywood site with contour overlay;

Gradiometer data superimposed on the conductivity data;

Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;

Instrument: _____; Sampling Interval: _____; Prospecting Depth: _____; Area Surveyed: _____; Date of Survey: July 1998; Land Cover Type: Grass; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Project Name: Hollywood Mounds Site (22TU500), MS;

References: Johnson, J.K., Stallings, R., Ross-Stallings, N., Clay, R.B., and V.S. Jones (2000). Remote Sensing and Ground Truth at the Hollywood Mounds Site in Tunica County, Mississippi. Univ. Prepared for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Johnson, J.K. (2001). Remote Sensing at the Hollywood Mound Center in Northeastern Mississippi Website: http://www.olemiss.edu/research/anthropology/top.html.

Clay, R. B. (2002). Complementary Geophysical Survey Techniques: Why Two Ways are Always Better Than One. Southeastern Archaeology 20(1):31-43.

Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. (2001).Hollywood Site, Tunica County, Mississippi. Website: http://www.crai-ky.com/geophysical/hollywood.htm

Survey by: Berle Clay, Cultural Research Analysts, Inc.; University of Mississippi students; Steve Jones, University of Alabama, Office of Archaeological Services;

Survey for: Mississippi Department of Archives and History;

Report Location: Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary