Peoples of the Northwest Coast:
Their Archaeology and Prehistory
by Kenneth M. Ames
and Herbert D. G. Maschner
Posted on 08/13/2004 12:07:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
On September 19, 1997, the New York Times announced the discovery of a group of earthen mounds in northeastern Louisiana. The site, known as Watson Brake, includes 11 mounds 26 feet high linked by low ridges into an oval 916 feet long. What is remarkable about this massive complex is that it was built around 3400 B.C., more than 3,000 years before the development of farming communities in eastern North America, by hunter-gatherers, at least partly mobile, who visited the site each spring and summer to fish, hunt, and collect freshwater mussels... Social complexity cannot exist unless I it is supported by a productive subsistence economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at mc.maricopa.edu ...
Archaeology Volume 52 Number 5
September/October 1999
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Good essay, wish it looked more professional though.
I could not even read it with the text running through the spiral on the right.
Too bad.
Peoples of the Northwest Coast:
Their Archaeology and Prehistory
by Kenneth M. Ames
and Herbert D. G. Maschner
New Structure Found at Ancient Ohio Site
AP | 08/30/2005 | none credited
Posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:19 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1473813/posts
Ouachita River Mounds: A Five Millennium MysteryThe massive earthworks at Poverty Point near Epps were long considered the beginning of extensive mound construction. Non-native stones found on the site originated as far away as Wisconsin, Tennessee and Georgia indicate that Poverty Point was a major trade center circa 1500 BC. The Poverty Point culture spread over a large part of the Lower Mississippi Valley and flourished from around 1730 BC to 1350 BC. Until recently, Poverty Point was considered an amazing anomaly because no one had identified significant earlier sites... calibrated radiocarbon dates from several sites including Hedgepeth, Frenchman's Bend and Watson Brake... placed their construction between 3700 BC and 3000 BC. Saunders and others now have reason to believe that mound construction was widespread by 3000 BC in northern and southern Louisiana as well as Mississippi and Florida where other researchers have worked for years... When Allen obtained a core sample of the largest mound, he found advanced soil development. Saunders then decided the site was worth further study. Radiocarbon dating of Watson Brake places its construction in a 400-year period beginning at 3400 B.C. Watson Brake became a focal point of research into Middle Archaic mounds because it is larger, more securely dated and has been disturbed less than the others.
by Lori Tucker
circa 2000
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"* Tests showed the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago. The youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago."
These people used the same graveyard for 1,200 years.
That must have been one worn-out shovel.
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We live a couple of miles from the Poverty Point mounds and we have several smaller mounds in a field below our house. After a frog-strangler of a rain in our fields, I can find all sorts of artifacts ... really nice arrowheads too.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=hunter-gather+watkins+brake+louisiana
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