Notice2025-12824
Notice of Inventory Completion: Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site, Kentucky State Parks, Wickliffe, KY
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Published
July 10, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site, Kentucky State Parks, has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 130 (Thursday, July 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30666-30667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12824]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040469; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Wickliffe Mounds State Historic
Site, Kentucky State Parks, Wickliffe, KY
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site,
Kentucky State Parks, has completed an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Carla Hildebrand,
Park Manager, Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site, Kentucky State
Parks, 94 Green Street, P.O. Box 155, Wickliffe, KY 42087, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7a191b08161b541213161e1f18081b141e3a1103541d150c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8be8eaf9e7eaa5e3e2e7efeee9f9eae5efcbe0f2a5ece4fd">[email protected]</span></a>, and Jennifer Spence, Parks Curator, Kentucky
State Parks, 94 Green Street, P.O. Box 155, Wickliffe, KY 42087, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3b515e5555525d5e4915484b5e55585e7b5042155c544d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5d37383333343b382f732e2d38333e381d3624733a322b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site, Kentucky State Parks, and
additional information on the determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found in its inventory or related
records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, 524 individuals have been
identified. The 41,857 associated funerary objects are: 41,795 ceramic
sherds, seven effigy fragments, 41 worked lithics, four rearticulated
pots, three earspools, four bone fishhooks, and three bone awls. These
objects were found mixed with human remains, faunal bones, lithic
debitage, and other miscellaneous materials from the excavation units.
Archaeological excavations were conducted at Wickliffe Mounds State
Historic Site, Wickliffe, Ballard County, Kentucky. Archaeological site
#15BA4. Excavated materials were removed and curated on-site at
Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site. Radiocarbon dating, ceramic
analysis, and artifact comparisons indicate that the site was occupied
A.D./CE 1100 to 1350, placing its Indigenous population within the
Mississippian Culture. There are no known potentially hazardous
substances used to treat any of the human remains or associated
funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site, Kentucky State Parks, has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 524 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 41,857 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Miami
Tribe of Oklahoma; Quapaw Nation; The Osage Nation; and The Chickasaw
Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
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authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August
11, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site, Kentucky State Parks must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site, Kentucky State
Parks, is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian
Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and
any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 25, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-12824 Filed 7-9-25; 8:45 am]
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