Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Watson Brake. 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] It is older than the Ancient Egyptian pyramids or Britain’s Stonehenge.
Stone tools preserve more readily than tools of many other materials. [1][2] So the oldest tools that we can find in many areas are going to be stone tools. It could be that these tools were once accompanied by, or even preceded by, non-stone tools that we cannot find because they did not preserve. Similarly, hard materials like bone or shell ...
Troyville Earthworks (16 CT 7) is a Woodland period Native American archaeological site with components dating from 100 BCE to 700 CE during the Baytown to the Troyville- Coles Creek periods. It once had the tallest mound in Louisiana at 82 feet (25 m) in height. It is located in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana in the town of Jonesville. [1]
Preceding the Poverty Point Culture is the Watson Brake site in present-day Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, where eleven earthwork mounds were built beginning about 3500 BC. 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 ...
Mound Builders. Monks Mound, built c. 950–1100 CE and located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica. Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed " Mound Builders ", but the term has no formal meaning.
During the Archaic period, Louisiana was home to the earliest mound complex in North America and one of the earliest dated complex constructions in the Americas. The Watson Brake site is an arrangement of human-made mounds located in the floodplain of the Ouachita River near Monroe in northern Louisiana. It has been dated to about 3400 BC.
Marsden Mounds (16 RI 3) is an archaeological site with components from the Poverty Point culture (1500 BCE) and the Troyville - Coles Creek period (400 to 1200 CE). It is located in Richland Parish, Louisiana, near Delhi. [2] It was added to the NRHP on August 4, 2004, as NRIS number 04000803. [3]
The Belcher Mound Site (16CD13) is an archaeological site in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. [1] It is located in the Red River Valley 20 miles north of Shreveport [2] and about one-half mile east of the town of Belcher, Louisiana. [3] It was excavated by Clarence H. Webb from 1959 to 1969. [3]