Crooks Mound16 LA 3 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Crooks Mound16 LA 3 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Crooks Mound () (16 LA 3) is a large Marksville culture archaeological site located in La Salle Parish in south central Louisiana. It is a large, conical burial mound that was part of at least six episodes of burials. It measured about and . It contained roughly 1,150 sets of remains that were placed. However, they were able to be fit into the structure of the mound. Sometimes body parts were removed in order to achieve that goal. Archaeologists think it was a holding house for the area that was emptied periodically in order to achieve this type of setup. Read more on Wikipedia
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