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  2. Crooks Mound - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. List of Hopewell sites - Wikipedia

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    A Marksville culture mound site, it is located in La Salle Parish, Louisiana. It is a large, conical, burial mound that was part of at least six episodes of burials. It measures about 16 ft high (4.9 m) and 85 ft wide (26 m). Dunns Pond Mound: The Dunns Pond Mound is a historic Native American mound in northeastern Logan County, Ohio.

  5. Marksville culture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of burial mounds in the United States - Wikipedia

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    La Salle Parish, Louisiana: 100 BCE to 400 CE Early Marksville culture: A large Marksville culture mound site in La Salle Parish in south central Louisiana. It is a large conical 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).

  7. Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Hopewell tradition - Wikipedia

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    The Marksville culture was a Hopewellian culture in the Lower Mississippi valley, Yazoo valley, and Tensas valley areas of present-day Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas. It evolved into the Baytown culture and later the Coles Creek and Plum Bayou cultures. It is named for the Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site in Marksville ...

  9. Marksville, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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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] Louisiana's first land-based casino, Paragon Casino Resort, opened in Marksville in June 1994.