One of the 11 mounds at Watson Brake rises above the surrounding Louisiana landscape. The tallest mound reaches approximately 7.5 metres, an impressive fea
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One of the 11 mounds at Watson Brake rises above the surrounding Louisiana landscape. The tallest mound reaches approximately 7.5 metres, an impressive feat for a community of what were traditionally considered nomadic hunter-gatherers. The site was largely unknown to archaeology until 1981 and was not fully recognized as 5,500 years old until radiocarbon dating in the 1990s.
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