Louisiana Hopewell featured on The Archaeology Channel
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TV and RadioThe rise of the Marksville Culture in central Louisiana represented the spread of cultural influences all the way from Ohio and Illinois and the continuing development of complex culture even before the advent of a fully agricultural economy.Ancient Mound Builders: The Marksville State Historic Site, the latest video featured on our public education website, The Archaeology Channel (www.archaeologychannel.org), details this fascinating episode in North American cultural history.
Two thousand years ago, people in central Louisiana developed a sophisticated culture represented today by a group of earthworks and mounds protected today at the site of Marksville. The Marksville Culture, a southeastern variant of the Hopewell culture centered in Ohio and Illinois, embraced elaborate mortuary rituals, constructed conical burial mounds and other earthworks, and had complex trade networks and decorative pottery. This video describes the Marksville site and the remarkable prehistoric American society that built it.
Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org
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