Given that I have walked past these mounds innumerable
times on the Louisiana State University campus and sat
on top of them as an undergraduate student decades ago,
I found the latest research surprising. I actually know many
the coauthors on the below paper.

This is going to be controversial and fun.

New Research Shows LSU Campus Mounds as
the Oldest Known Man-made Structures in the Americas
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, August 18, 2022
[www.lsu.edu]

Oldest human-made structure in the Americas is older than
the Egyptian pyramids By JoAnna Wendel, Live Science, August 27, 2022
[www.livescience.com]

The paywalled paper is:

Brooks B. Ellwood, Sophie Warny, Rebecca A. Hackworth,
Suzanne H. Ellwood, Jonathan H. Tomkin, Samuel J. Bentley,
Dewitt H. Braud and Geoffrey C. Clayton. The LSU campus
mounds, with construction beginning at circa11,000 BP, are the
oldest known extant man-made structures in the Americas
American Journal of Science, 322 (6) 795-827
[www.ajsonline.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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