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RED JASPER CARVINGS OF OWLS ARE AMONG THE MOST MYSTERIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL OF ARTIFACTS UNCOVERED AT AN ANCIENT MOUND-BUILDING SITE IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA This vast complex of earthen structures, constructed 3,100-3,700 years ago, may be the largest hunter-gatherer settlement that has ever existed. Located on a bayou west of the Mississippi River in northeastern Louisiana, it is an integrated complex of earthen mounds, enormous concentric ridges, and a large plaza. Not only was it the largest and most elaborate settlement of its time in North America, it was, more significantly, built by a foraging society of hunter-gatherers, not a settled agricultural people, which makes it without parallel in world archaeological and ethnographic records, challenging anthropology’s basic assumptions about hunter-gatherer societies. — from a U.S. Department of the Interior announcement describing the PHOTOS BY JENNY ELLERBE Poverty Point National Monument, Federal Register, July 14, 2011. Winter 2012-13 • Louisiana CuLturaL Vistas 41 

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