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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY-Kancock County Port and Harbor Commission Director Wilson Webre, right, examines findings discovered by Archaeologist Dale Greenwell at a 25-acre site in the Port Bienville Industrial Park. (Staff photo-Leslie Williams)
Dig unearths prehistoric evidence at Port Bienville
By LESLIE WILLIAMS An archaeological survey has produced enough evidence to request excavation of several acres at Hancock County?s Port Bienville Industrial Park where a Poverty Point culture village is believed to have existed in 1500 B.C.
The Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission-sponsored survey was begun Sunday by Biloxi Archaeologist ...Dale Greenwell, an instructor at the ?University of Southern Mississippi Gulf r Park branch in Long Beach. f ? Greenwell said Monday, ?Enough"' evidence has been found to support the
presence of a Poverty Point culture?s village here? (a 25-acre site at Port Bienville).
?I will now recommend to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that they consider excavation of the northern section of this 25-acre site,? declared Greenwell Monday.
Greenwell was doubtful he would find enough evidence to warrant an excavation of the site when he began, his survey Saturday, because the site had been devastated by private collectors and bulldozers.
He also said Saturday that surveys are superficial and what the area needed was excavation.
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