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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Watson Brake Alternative Name: Ouachita Mounds, Watson's BrakeCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.163 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Monroe
Latitude: 32.369222N Longitude: 92.130278W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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The eleven oval and circular mounds were built on a hill overlooking the Ouachita River. The tallest of the group was over 20 feet tall originally.
The mounds date back to 3400 BC, older than the mounds at Poverty Point. With no burials, and few artifacts, or even signs of use after their initial building, the mounds are assumed to have had some ceremonial use, even if it were only a unique exercise in marking group identity or a singular instance of focused coercion.
The people who created the Watson Brake mounds did not live on the site. Evidence of habitation from the same period in Louisiana indicates the people had not yet developed agriculture in any focused way, and led lives of seasonal settlement.
The location given is for the watercourse of Watson Break and not the site itself, which is located on properties owned by the Archaeology Conservancy and a private owner. Currently several of the mounds are covered by trees and other vegitation. The site us not accessible to the public at this time.
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