[Rockhounds] 11, 000 BP Age of the LSU Campus Mounds(Louisiana) Critically Reevaluated (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

[Paul]

11,000 BP Age of the LSU Campus Mounds(Louisiana) Critically Reevaluated 
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

The proposed 11,000 BP age of the LSU Mounds in Baton Rouge
is critically reevaluated at:

McGimsey, C., Saunders, R. Homburg, J., Hawkins, N., McKillop, H.,
and Mann, R., 2022. The Age and Construction of the LSU Campus
Mounds: Consideration of Ellwood and Colleagues (2022). The SAA,
Archaheological Record. 22(5), pp. 18-27.

Open access PDF avilable at:
https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=768625

Or linked at “2022 – Volume 22,” list of issues at:
https://www.saa.org/publications/the-saa-archaeological-record

There is another discussion of the LSU Mounds dating at:

Oldest Mound Site in North America? with Dr. Shane Miller
and Dr. Jesse Tune - Ep 126 A Life In Ruins
https://podcasts.apple.com/gy/podcast/oldest-mound-site-in-north-america-with-dr-shane/id1460532947?i=1000579902997

The paywalled paper that the above paper critically discusses is:

Ellwood, B.B., Warny, S., Hackworth, R.A., Ellwood, S.H., Tomkin,
J.H., Bentley, S.J., Braud, D.H. and Clayton, G.C., 2022. The LSU
campus mounds, with construction beginning at∼ 11,000 BP, are the
oldest known extant man-made structures in the Americas. American
Journal of Science, 322(6), pp.795-827.
https://www.ajsonline.org/content/322/6/795

Yours,

Paul H.