Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Carson site, also known as the Carson Mounds and/or Carson-Montgomery-Stovall was once a large Mississippian culture site along the Mississippi River in the Yazoo Basin of Mississippi. The site was first occupied in the middle of the first millennium A.D. and the large earthen monuments and villages were constructed at the site after A.D. 1200. Only a few large earthen mounds are still present at Carson to this day. Some archaeologists have suggested that Carson was one of the more important archaeological sites in the state of Mississippi.Archaeologists have also suggested that Carson is important because it was either near or part of one of the provinces visited by some of the earliest conquistadors in the southeastern United States. There is no physical evidence that Carson was visited by Hernando de Soto and his men during the westward trek across the southeastern United States. However, they did pass at the very least within 50 – 75 km of Carson and the social disruptions caused by Soto and his men did cause native polities and provinces like Carson to defragment and fall apart .Carson was first visited by early European explorers in the late nineteenth century, including surveyors for Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, Col. Philetus W. Norris and William Henry Holmes. The site was located on the Oasis Plantation owned by the Stovall and Carson families and a map of the landscape and mounds was published in 1894 in the 12th Annual Report to the Bureau of American Ethnology by Cyrus Thomas. Subsequent researchers to visit the site include the Harvard LMS survey, Ian Brown, Jay K. Johnson, John Connaway, and Jayur Madhusudan Mehta.This map, in addition to research by archaeologists, established the significant scale of settlement at the site. The mounds stretch across an expanse of land over 1.6 km in length. In the greater pantheon of Mississippian culture sites, Carson is quite large, and it was incredibly important in local and regional political dynamics.The Carson Mounds site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979."@en }
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- Carson_Mounds abstract "The Carson site, also known as the Carson Mounds and/or Carson-Montgomery-Stovall was once a large Mississippian culture site along the Mississippi River in the Yazoo Basin of Mississippi. The site was first occupied in the middle of the first millennium A.D. and the large earthen monuments and villages were constructed at the site after A.D. 1200. Only a few large earthen mounds are still present at Carson to this day. Some archaeologists have suggested that Carson was one of the more important archaeological sites in the state of Mississippi.Archaeologists have also suggested that Carson is important because it was either near or part of one of the provinces visited by some of the earliest conquistadors in the southeastern United States. There is no physical evidence that Carson was visited by Hernando de Soto and his men during the westward trek across the southeastern United States. However, they did pass at the very least within 50 – 75 km of Carson and the social disruptions caused by Soto and his men did cause native polities and provinces like Carson to defragment and fall apart .Carson was first visited by early European explorers in the late nineteenth century, including surveyors for Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, Col. Philetus W. Norris and William Henry Holmes. The site was located on the Oasis Plantation owned by the Stovall and Carson families and a map of the landscape and mounds was published in 1894 in the 12th Annual Report to the Bureau of American Ethnology by Cyrus Thomas. Subsequent researchers to visit the site include the Harvard LMS survey, Ian Brown, Jay K. Johnson, John Connaway, and Jayur Madhusudan Mehta.This map, in addition to research by archaeologists, established the significant scale of settlement at the site. The mounds stretch across an expanse of land over 1.6 km in length. In the greater pantheon of Mississippian culture sites, Carson is quite large, and it was incredibly important in local and regional political dynamics.The Carson Mounds site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.".