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Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

Park

  • Plum Bayou Mounds

Region

  • [X] Central

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Author

  • Arkansas State Parks Staff
  • Meg Matthews
  • Monika Rued
  • Zoie Clift
  • Chris Pistole
  • Grady Spann
  • Sasha Bowles
  • Jenn Menge
  • Megan Ayres Moore
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  • Mystina Swaim
  • Robin Gabe
  • Adam Leslie
  • Don Simons
  • Jason Baumgartner
  • Jason Parrie
  • Kelly Farrell
  • Kylee Cole
  • Leita Spears
  • Maggie Howard
  • Melissa Ray
  • Ron Salley
  • Tara Gillanders
  • Tim Scott
  • Waymon Cox
  • Zachary Fisher
  • [X] Amy Griffin

Date Published

  • June 2020

Connecting to a Prehistoric People   

Jun 2020
  ⁄  
Amy Griffin

Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park in Scott, Arkansas is a unique American Indian mound complex that was the cultural center of the Plum Bayou people, who interacted with their environment and each other much as we do today. The Plum Bayou people are a group of prehistoric American Indian mound builders who lived here between 650 – 1050 AD. They built one of the...

Sun setting over a mound at Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park
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