Mounds of the Louisiana Coast (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Mounds of the Louisiana Coast

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Hundreds of ancient mound sites, depicted here with yellow triangles, still survive in coastal Louisiana. A new study teases out the natural and human history of one of these mound-top villages, a site known as Grand Caillou, shown in red.

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Graphic by Julie McMahon after Mehta and Chamberlain.

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Graphic by Julie McMahon after Mehta and Chamberlain.

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