Horse Creek (Tombigbee River)
Location and characteristics
Horse Creek originates near the Choctaw Corner in Clarke County, at coordinates of 31°56′11″N 87°45′31″W / 31.93626°N 87.75861°W, and discharges into the Tombigbee River near Putnam in Marengo County, at coordinates of 32°04′38″N 88°03′15″W / 32.07709°N 88.05418°W. It has a watershed of 60.4 square miles (156 km) and a discharge of 28,100 cubic feet (800 m) per second.
Prehistoric period
Archaeological work during the 1980s indicated that Horse Creek may mark the southern boundary for the Miller 1 phase of the Miller culture. Prior to this work, the boundary was thought by scholars to lie 15 miles (24 km) north, near Breckenridge landing.
A truncated pyramidal platform mound near the mouth of the creek was briefly investigated by archeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore on March 5, 1905, during his expedition around the Southern United States aboard his steamboat, the Gopher. Moore thought the mound to be domiciliary, as it was unlike the small rounded burial mounds that are typical of the area. Due to the scarcity of Mississippian sites in the lower Tombigbee River Valley, Moore tentatively dated it to the Woodland period.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Horse Creek
- ^ Geological Survey (U.S.) (2001). U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply Paper. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 77.
- ^ Jenkins, Ned J.; Krause, Richard A. (1986). The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 61. ISBN 9780817302818.
- ^ Moore, Clarence Bloomfield; Sheldon, Craig T. (2001). The Southern and Central Alabama Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 56, 86. ISBN 9780817310196.