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Hughes Mound Site

It is significant as “the only prehistoric pyramidal mound center known south of Benton in the middle of the Saline River valley, and the only known late prehistoric mound center in the Saline River basin north of the Felsenthal region.” The site was an center of society and religion on the northeastern edge of the Caddoan civilization, and was possibly the closest Caddoan center to the prehistoric Quapaw centers in the Arkansas River valley.



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