Belcher Mound Site

[2] The Belcher Site was a ceremonial center with a mound, cemetery, and village area inhabited circa 900 - 1700 CE.

Later, circular structures with interior roof supports and central hearths were constructed atop the mound.

The grave goods included earthenware pottery, a ceramic spindle whorl and hair ornament, a stone celt and shell artifacts.

[2] The Belcher people made tools such as celts(axes), arrow points, flint scrapers and gravers, and sandstone hones from a variety of rocks.

They also made awls, needles and chisels from animal bones, and hoes for farming from mussel shells.

[5] Sites in the Texarkana and Belcher Phase areas were an assortment of sizes, from large, permanent settlements with mounds and cemeteries, to smaller dispersed hamlets and farmsteads.

Map of the Caddoan Mississippian culture and some important sites, including the Belcher Mound Site
A reconstructed wattle and daub house at the Spiro Mounds Site
Hernando de Soto route through the Caddo area, with known archaeological phases of the time, including Belcher