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Watson Brake
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Richwood
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Watson Brake is an archaeological site in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, from the Archaic period. Dated to about 5400 years ago (approx. 3500 BCE), Watson Brake is considered the oldest mound complex in North America. It is older than the Egyptian pyramids and England’s Stonehenge. The arrangement of human-made mounds was constructed over centuries by members of a hunter-gatherer society, and is located in the floodplain of the Ouachita River, near present-day Monroe in northern Louisiana, United States. Watson Brake consists of an oval formation of eleven earthwork mounds from three to 25 feet (7.6 m) in height, connected by ridges to form an oval nearly 900 feet (270 m) across. Watson Brake is dated to 1,900 years before the better-known Poverty Point in northern Louisiana, begun about 1500…
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