[1] Its inhabitants may have moved from the Marshall Site, which is a slightly older settlement located on the nearest adjacent bluff spur.

For a regional administrative center, Turk is a small site, but this is because of constraints placed on it by the geography of the bluff spur it sits on.

The layout of the site is characteristically Mississippian, with a number of platform mounds surrounding a central plaza.

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