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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.
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).
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 ...
The land where Marksville was founded on was once a meeting place, leading to the present day Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site. [6] Marksville is named after Marc Eliche (Marco Litche or Marco de Élitxe, as recorded by the Spanish), a Sephardic Jewish trader believed to be from Venice, who established a trading post after his wagon broke ...
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Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site: Also known as the Marksville State Historic Site, it is the type site for the Marksville culture and is located about one mile southeast of Marksville, Louisiana. Moorehead Circle: A triple woodhenge constructed about two millennia ago at the Fort Ancient Earthworks in Ohio. Mounds State Park