Talk:LSU Campus Mounds

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Claims of 11,000 BP
The proposed 11,000 BP age of the LSU Mounds in Baton Rouge is critically reevaluated at:

McGimsey, C., Saunders, R. Homburg, J., Hawkins, N., McKillop, H., and Mann, R., 2022. The Age and Construction of the LSU Campus Mounds: Consideration of Ellwood and Colleagues (2022). The SAA, Archaheological Record. 22(5), pp. 18-27. Open access PDF avilable at: 

Or linked at “2022 – Volume 22,” list of issues at: 

PDF of entire issue linked at 2022 – Volume 22, list of issues at: 

There is another discussion of the LSU Mounds dating at:

Oldest Mound Site in North America? with Dr. Shane Miller and Dr. Jesse Tune - Ep 126 A Life In Ruins 

The paywalled paper that the above paper and podcast critically discusses is:

Ellwood, B.B., Warny, S., Hackworth, R.A., Ellwood, S.H., Tomkin, J.H., Bentley, S.J., Braud, D.H. and Clayton, G.C., 2022. The LSU campus mounds, with construction beginning at 11,000 BP, are the oldest known extant man-made structures in the Americas. American Journal of Science, 322(6), pp.795-827. [www.ajsonline.org] Thanks to User:Paul H. More available in the Wikipedia library, eg "LSU mounds could be oldest man-made structure, but peer review necessary, professor says. Periodical By: RDDAD, YOUSSEF. Newsletter of the Louisiana Archaeological Society. Spring2020, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p13-14. 2p." Doug Weller talk 09:58, 7 May 2023 (UTC)