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Boothe Landing Mound
07/20/2010
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Located on Little Boy Lane, just off LA 124 between Harrisonburg and Enterprise, Boothe Landing Mound is thought to be the only Tchefuncte age (500 – 100 BC) mound on the Ancient Mounds Trail. It is a single, well-preserved mound on the west side of the Ouachita River. Conical in form, it’s 10 feet tall and about 80 X 60 feet at its base.
A 1908 excavation of the mound found human remains, stone points, and other stone artifacts. A village midden, or refuse heap, is about 230 feet north of the mound, and is likely associated with it. The midden is Tchefuncte in age, based on pottery pieces found there. It also has mussel shell and stone artifacts. Archaeologists think that the mound is likely the same age as the midden, but further study may show that the mound is slightly older.
For unknown reasons Native Americans stopped building mounds for about 1,000 years and the Tchefuncte period is when mound building began anew.
Recently state regional archaeologist Dr. Joe Saunders, along with volunteers, removed underbrush, made soil borings and took additional measurements of the Boothe Landing mound.
Please send an email if you would like to volunteer for future investigations and cleanup of Catahoula Indian mound sites where you can learn first hand about our Native American heritage.
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