Re: [Geology2] Louisiana geology

Oh.. that is fascinating, esp regarding mounds on the LSU campus. I visited my cousin there but only got acquainted with a bar called the White Horse...lol. I have not visited Poverty Point yet but here in Milwaukee I am not too far from the remains of Cahokia. I have some land near Natchitoches, La., and there are mounds there but I won't do anything there without some sort of professional presence. I was born in La, grew up in Tx and by some weird machination...ended up here in WI. As you may have noted I am strictly a layperson on this list. Allison

From: ChuckB <gumboyaya@cox.net>
To: geology2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Geology2] Louisiana geology

 

Allison,

You wrote:

 

Hey Chuck...did you study there or are you from there? There are lots of Indian mounds there too... although that is not strictly speaking, geology...unless you count the artifacts from other places buried there.

Ph.D. in physics from LSU. My wife is the native Cajun, though.

There are Woodland period mounds on the campus of LSU and plenty of potsherds and projectile points in the same waters as the fossils. They seem to have the same density, since you tend to find them sorted together with a certain type of gravel, mostly Troyville-Coles Creek culture. The oldest dated Archaic site in Louisiana is also in Baton Rouge, the Monte Sano mounds. I have visited Poverty Point (Late Archaic) and Watson Brake (Middle Archaic) sites.

Chuck

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