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Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site, also known as the Marksville site, is a Marksville culture archaeological site located 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. The site features numerous earthworks built by the prehistoric indigenous peoples of southeastern North America .
A map showing the geographical extent of the Marksville cultural period. The Marksville culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Lower Mississippi valley, Yazoo valley, and Tensas valley areas of present-day Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, [1] and extended eastward along the Gulf Coast to the Mobile Bay area, [2] from 100 BCE to 400 CE.
The parish seat is Marksville. [2] The parish was created in 1807, with the name deriving from the French name for the historic Avoyel people, one of the local Indian tribes at the time of European encounter. [3] Today the parish is the base of the federally recognized Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe, who have a reservation there. The tribe has a ...
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Marksville is a small city in and the parish seat of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,702 at the 2010 census , an increase of 165 over the 2000 tabulation of 5,537. [ 4 ]
Crooks Mound (French: Monticule d'Escrocs) is a large Marksville culture archaeological site located in La Salle Parish in south central Louisiana. It is a large, conical burial mound that was part of at least six episodes of burials. It measured about 16 ft high (4.9 m) and 85 ft wide (26 m).
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La Mesa is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 728 as of the 2010 census. La Mesa has a post office with ZIP code 88044. [4] [5] NM 28 passes through the community.