UA archaelogist backtracks on claim about Oxford stone mound

The Anniston Star, via WHNT ^ | January 27, 2010 | Associated Press

[SunkenCiv]

A University of Alabama archaeologist has contradicted a report he signed last year claiming a stone mound in Oxford was likely made by humans about 1,000 years ago.

The Anniston Star reports that Robert Clouse told the Oxford city council Tuesday that erosion and other natural forces likely created the mound. Clouse heads the Office of Archaeological Research at the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama Museums.

Clouse was answering questions about the mound behind the Oxford Exchange and the apparent removal of another mound at the historic Davis Farm site.

Clouse last year signed a report on the potential archaeological significance of the mound. Protests erupted last year when the city tried to remove the hill under the mound to use as fill dirt to build a Sam's Club store nearby.

[SunkenCiv]

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[bert]

Here is a virtual tour of the University of Alabama Moundsville site/State park where there definitely are indian mounds

http://www.alabama360.com/moundville/tw_moundville.html

[wildbill]

Sometimes a mound is just a mound.

Metamorphosing mounds ping!

[colorado tanker]

Good one! Here, have a cigar . . . .