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Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds
16 PL 159
Layout of mounds at the Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds
Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds is located in Louisiana
Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds
Location within Louisiana today
LocationPlaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds USA
RegionPlaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Coordinates29°29′46.68″N 89°47′33.324″W / 29.4963000°N 89.79259000°W / 29.4963000; -89.79259000
History
Founded700 CE
Abandoned1200 CE
CulturesCoastal Coles Creek culture
Site notes
Excavation dates1926, 2003
Responsible body: private

Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds (16 PL 159) is an archaeological site in Plaquemines Parish near the southeast corner of Louisiana. Built by the Coastal Coles Creek culture, it was inhabited from 875 to 1200 CE, from the Early Coles Creek period to the Coles Creek/Plaquemine period.[1]

  1. ^ Timothy M. Schilling (May 2004). Excavations at the Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds (16PL159) : A Coles Creek Period Mound Complex (PDF) (Master of Arts thesis). Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2011-10-31.

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