Nodena site is an archeological site east of Wilson, Arkansas, and northeast of Reverie, Tennessee, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.
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14 Facts About Nodena site
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The Nodena site was discovered and first documented by Dr James K Hampson, archaeologist and owner of the plantation on which the Nodena site is located.
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Artifacts from this Nodena site are on display in the Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson, Arkansas.
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The Nodena site is the type site for the Nodena phase, believed by many archaeologists to be the province of Pacaha visited by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542.
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In 1964, the Nodena site was declared a National Historic Landmark and in 1966 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Nodena phase was a collection of villages along the Mississippi River between the Missouri Bootheel and Wapanocca Lake.
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The Parkin Nodena site is a candidate for the province of Casqui.
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The site had several large plaza areas, and what Dr Hampson described as a "chunkey field", which was located directly behind Mound A A circular mound, designated as "Mound C", was located at the other end of the chunkey field.
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The Nodena site was either the main town or one of the larger satellite towns of the Pacaha province.
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Pottery made by the Nodena site people was built up from strips of clay, and then smoothed out by the potter, much like other pottery in the Eastern America area where the potters wheel was unknown.
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People of the Nodena site phase practiced artificial cranial deformation or head flattening.
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Many of the skeletal remains found at the Nodena site had deformed skulls, of the type defined as fronto-occipital deformation, flattening of the forehead and the back of the head.
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People of Nodena site were intensely involved in maize agriculture, as well as other food crops originating in the Americas, such as beans, squash, sunflowers and gourds.
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The Spaniards described groves of wild fruit and nut bearing trees, implying that the Nodena site must have left them standing when clearing other trees for the cultivation of maize.
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