North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
Abstract/Summary:
Project Name: Parchman Place (22CO511), MS;
Reference: Dissertation Research in Progress;
A resistivity survey was conducted over a house feature at the Parchman Place site during February 2002 as part of on-going dissertation research by Matt Reynolds of the University of Mississippi. The Parchman site is a Late Woodland and Mississippian Period village site with associated mounds dating from AD 900-1500. The resistivity survey was successful in mapping the house feature, and also indicated a linear feature in the southeast portion of the grid that is probably a very deep plow scar that is visible on the ground surface. There are two curvilinear anomalies (which do not appear in the magnetic imagery) extending off the edge in the northeast and southwest that may represent a different structure type. A localized resistance high off the northeast corner of the structure is probably a burned-daub disposal pit; it had a very high magnetic signature. Ground truthing excavations are scheduled during the summer of 2002.