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Poverty Point, built about 1500 BCE in what is now Louisiana, is a prominent example of Late Archaic mound-builder construction (around 2500 BCE – 1000 BCE). It is a striking complex of more than 1 square mile (2.6 km 2 ), where six earthwork crescent ridges were built in concentric arrangement, interrupted by radial aisles.
Watson Brake is an archaeological site in present-day Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, from the Archaic period.Dated to about 5400 years ago (approx. 3500 BCE), Watson Brake is considered the oldest earthwork mound complex in North America. [1]
Jordan Mounds is a multimound archaeological site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. [1] It is the type site for the Jordan Phase of the local chronology. The site was constructed during the protohistoric period between 1540 and 1685.
There is a depression that divides the mound, which is thought to have been created by a 19th-century wagon road which proceeded northward to the old town of Floyd, Louisiana. Multiple radiocarbon dates for Mound C bracket the entire occupation of the site, but one radiocarbon test result from beneath the base of the mound suggests Mound C is ...
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Watson Brake is one of the earliest mound complexes in the Americas. [2] Next oldest is the Poverty Point Culture, which thrived from 1730 to 1350 BC, during the late Archaic period in North America. Evidence of this mound builder culture has been found at more than 100 sites, including the Jaketown Site near Belzoni, Mississippi.
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The largest mound, Mound 5 ( also known as the "Great Mound" ), was 82 feet (25 m) in height. [1] It was the tallest precolumbian mound in Louisiana and the second tallest in North America. Its base covered an acre of ground [5] and had three levels, the bottom two rectangular and the third on the top a truncated conical mound. [6]