re: Poverty Point, Louisiana

The old man lives on the south side of the reservoir. They find really nice arrowheads, spear tips, etc. all the time out in their pasture.

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I feel like it’s all I hear about.

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Would not know. Graduated from high school (Broadmoor) and joined the Army. Have only briefly lived in Louisiana since (couple of years) and visited from time to time. Guess I need to nerd out and go up and see the site. Sounds very cool.

Pieces have been excavated/studied but a site wide, comprehensive dig has never been done. It's just too big.

It's older than we think.

Fun Fact: Louisiana and the South were covered in Indian mounds. Those mounds were used to build roads in the 40s 50s without ever being studied. Louisiana was still bull dozing mounds in the 70s.

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Not so fun fact: Many of the mounds in this state were destroyed by the highway department for road fill in the early twentieth century.

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There were likely a few sites destroyed when they built the Poverty Point Reservoir, but Francis DGAF.

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Are you old?

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Yes.

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Centered in St George

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There's actually King George Indian Mounds off the Amite River.

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INDIAN MOUNDS FOUND ALL OVER ALONG THE AMITE RIVER BASIN !!
AND OH YEA, THEY ARE ANCIENT !!!
(FRENCH SETTLEMENT NATIVE HARRY BRIGNAC JR ARCHEOLOGIST ) EXCAVATED THESE MOUNDS IN 2010...
KING GEORGE INDIAN MOUNDS

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https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1152/

LIDAR images

Native Americans before European settlement didn't have horses, or any other sort of pack animal. They depended on waterways for transportation, or hauling any large amount of materials. Louisiana floods. They built mounds along the waterways as a safe haven from the floods because they lived along the waterways.

Our forefathers were idiots if they showed up here, seen a bunch of mounds built by ancient peoples, and dlidn't think the area was susceptible to flooding.

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They built mounds along the waterways as a safe haven from the floods because they lived along the waterways.

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That's not what I read in the LSU study

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The King George Island Mounds site (16LV22) is one of four conical mound sites located along the lower Amite River in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Gagliano originally reported the site in 1957 as containing two conical mounds. Initially, it was postulated that the Lower Amite River mounds might date to the Marksville period based on the similarities of shape. Recent research conducted at the site indicates that the site may contain up to five conical mounds that date to the Late Archaic period. Geomorphological, pedological, and archaeological data indicate an initial Archaic occupation. Archaic period artifacts were recovered from excavations above, in, and below a buried A horizon at the King George Island Mounds site. These included exotic lithic materials, dart points, four-sided drills, pebble-pointed hammerstones, and microlithic drills. Radiocarbon dates of the buried A horizon in the ridge provide a Late Archaic terminus post quem for activity at the site. Despite the recent research, site function remains unclear. The lack of evidence of residential features may indicate that the King George Island Mounds site served ceremonial and/or territorial functions.

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Fun trip. They have a Fox's Pizza Den in Delhi, LA that's a good stop after the 3 mile hike around Poverty Point. Last time I went, the cat with the beard was there and let us try to throw the atlatl. We stunk, but that cat was humming fastballs with em.

Thank you for your service.