Magnolia Mound Complex

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The Magnolia Mound Complex is by far the largest and potentially most scientifically
valuable site in all southeastern Louisiana. If this site had been located prior to the recognition of the
Marksville site in central Louisiana, archaeologist today would probably be referring to the the Magnolia Culture rather than the Marksville Culture, when speaking of Hopewellian influences in the Lower
Mississippi Valley.
This site is a series of mounds and shell middens that was occupied between the late Marksville(c.100-300 A.D.) and late Mississippi (c.1300-1500 A.D.)
This site is located on the Mississippi's ancestral Bayou Laloutre.It is built atop the natural levee that is still protected from the Gulf by the coastal marsh.The individual mounds are above marsh level and thereby provide dry soil for shrubs and trees (Oaks and apparently Magnolias) to anchor into.
They can be discerned in this imagery by the shades of green against the otherwise dull late fall brown of the marsh grasses.Also by the shade projected from the elevated trees.

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