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Date: January 5th, 2025 4:54 PM
Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™)

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Oldest human-made structure in the Americas is older than the Egyptian pyramids

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By JoAnna Wendel published August 26, 2022

The grass-covered mounds represent 11,000 years of human history.

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Students pictured walking past two large grassy mounds on the LSU campus

The LSU Mounds can be found at the north end of Louisiana State University's campus. (Image credit: LSU)

To find the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas, you don't need to hike into the wilderness or paddle down a raging river — all you need to do is visit Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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At the north end of Louisiana State University's (LSU) campus sit two grassy mounds, rising in a gentle slope to a height of about 20 feet (6 meters). The mounds are just two of more than 800 similar human-made mounds in Louisiana, built by Indigenous Americans. Although researchers knew they were old, a new study has determined just how old these ancient structures are.

The grassy surface hides layers of ancient clay, dirt and ash. And researchers recently found that the oldest mound is 11,000 years old, making it the oldest human-made structure discovered in either North or South America.

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"There's nothing known that is man-made and this old still in existence today in the Americas, except the mounds," study first author Brooks Ellwood, emeritus professor of geology and at LSU, said in a university statement. The research was published in the June issue of Yale University's American Journal of Science.

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History of the mounds

For the study, the researchers took sediment cores from each of the mounds to determine their age. In these cores, the researchers found layers of clay and ash from burned reed and cane plants, as well as microscopic animal bone fragments.

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Because the flames from reed and cane are too hot to cook food with, the researchers think that the mounds were built up and used for religious or ceremonial purposes.

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LSU researchers pictured atop one of the mounds, collecting samples

LSU researchers collected and analyzed sediment core samples of the LSU Campus Mounds that revealed the discovery of thousands of years old charred mammal bone fragments and plant material dating back to 11,000 years ago. (Image credit: LSU)

The two mounds aren't the same age. Mound B, which lies to the south of Mound A, is the oldest of the two. Using radiocarbon dating, which measures how much of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 has decayed in organic matter, the researchers determined that Mound B is 11,000 years old, while Mound A is around 7,500 years old. The finding reveals that both mounds are older than the ancient Egyptian pyramids; the oldest pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was constructed at Saqqara about 4,700 years ago.

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By studying the cores and the surrounding landscape, the researchers built a general timeline for the mounds' construction. A large depression in the ground near LSU's Hill Memorial Library hinted that Mound B was probably constructed from material in that area starting around 11,000 years ago. Over thousands of years, ancient humans continued to build up the mound with clay and by burning plants and animals on the mound.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659539&forum_id=2Elisa#48521327)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 1:04 AM
Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659539&forum_id=2Elisa#48522700)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 1:20 AM
Author: peeface

"For the study, the researchers took sediment cores from each of the mounds to determine their age. In these cores, the researchers found layers of clay and ash from burned reed and cane plants, as well as microscopic animal bone fragments. "

so they're comparing an ash pile to the pyramids?

"Then, around 8,200 years ago, Mound B was abandoned — and researchers aren't sure why. But a rapidly changing climate could have had an impact. Starting around 8,200 years ago, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere suddenly dropped around 35 degrees Fahrenheit (19.4 degrees Celsius), for reasons unknown, and stayed that way for about 160 years, according to the statement."

probably climate change caused by burning all that stuff on their ash pile



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659539&forum_id=2Elisa#48522710)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 1:25 AM
Author: Kris Kringle Did Nothing Wrong (TDNW)

lol @ believing this shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659539&forum_id=2Elisa#48522720)



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Date: January 7th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659539&forum_id=2Elisa#48526217)



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Date: January 7th, 2025 3:24 AM
Author: GNOME CHOMSKY

I think I've seen these mounds driving onto campus to go to the library at LSU

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659539&forum_id=2Elisa#48526365)