T-shaped earthen structure preceded Moundville by more than 2,000 years

[L. Coyote]

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T-shaped earthen structure preceded Moundville by more than 2,000 years
Tommy Stevenson, March 7, 2009 at 3:30 a.m.

Archaeologist T.R. Kidder gives a lecture about the Poverty Point mound in Louisiana on the University of Alabama campus on Friday.
The mound “is the second-largest earthen mound in all of North America, second only to one in Illinois,” Kidder said.

TUSCALOOSA | About 3,300 years ago, a group of archaic period Native Americans living in what is now northeast Louisiana decided to build a great mound.

Ninety days after the project was begun by the Stone Age hunters and gatherers, the T-shaped, earthen mound — 70 feet high, 1,000 feet long in one direction and 700 feet long in the other — was complete.

The site, near modern-day Monroe, La., is known today as “Poverty Point,” ..... “The paradox is, what was going on .................

[Judi Lynn]

1. Very interesting. Didn't know Louisiana had this. Thank you. n/t