I live near a single solitary Hopewell mound called Towner's Mound. It was excavated, but almost all of the data and artifacts from it have been lost. It breaks my heart that we'll never know more about the people who built it.
Aloha Kayleigh, Finally, I have come across a comment that our mounds in the Mississippi Valley may have been for flood protection. Instead of being a least likely purpose, as seen in evaluations by mainstream archaeologists, it is, in my opinion, the most likely purpose - and all for the reasons you outlined! Again, you have done a very good job in an area of research that needs the research and the presentation. The egalitarian social need for flood protection far exceeds the hierarchical suggestions being made. Anthropologists keep finding that children worldwide in "older" cultures, respond to questions of motivation and sharing with a community first motivation. Keep it up! You are doing a great job! Aloha
Thank you Ken! I've found your email in my spam folder this morning, i will respond in a few days once i have the time to 🤗 First i will have to finish this next video🥰
I found a mound that dwarfs the sizes stated in this video. It is located between Crown Point and Lafitte , La. It is in the swamps located in the Baratatia basin. I have always wanted to do a little research and maybe digging.
I wish lidar could be done all over the lower Mississippi Valley. It would likely reveal more sites that either never knew existed or have been partially destroyed.
great video about a great culture. it's strange that anyone would want to remove evidence of such an ancient people on our continent. one would think that we'd be proud to have such early builders works in situ. would have liked to have been one who was allowed to excavate there. really good to have you back with new videos, Kayleigh!
I'm happy to be back! Thankfully i am recharged and ready for a new year 🤗 Let's hope in the future the mounds won't get destroyed and researched better! 🤞
@@HistoryWithKayleigh i'm with you on that. we need to protect as many of these prehistoric sites as possible. you never know what can be learned from ancient cultures. we have already benefitted from knowledge of ancient remedies for pain and other types of maladies. who knows?
@@HistoryWithKayleigh i think educating the public can go a long way toward that goal. which is what you do with your videos. they are quite indepth yet easy to understand. hopefully, your fame will spread and more people will be hooked, as many of us are now. keep uploading and we'll keep watching.
It is going to be a sad footnote of the US. We have long had this idea of making the place ours and erasing anything that gets in the way. I used to hear stories growing up in New England of ancient stone structures torn apart to use the rock to pave roads and build bridges during the colonial era. But I guess short term memories also foster thoughts of these ancient structures. Growing up you would find these rock walls through all of New England that were everywhere, even rural wooded areas. Now we know what they were, but that mystery before the internet was a nice gateway into exploring these sorts of things.
It's a shame that much has been destroyed over time, they did destroy quite a lot here and in the middle east as well to create buildings and pave roads.. Hopefully we can preserve what is left and research that and find out more about the ancient history in the US. The rock walls do sound awesome 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Two things going on here. There are pre-colonial rock structures in New England, and farther south. Even west. For instance. There is a stone structure, a tower of sorts on the coast of Massachusetts that predates the United States. There is a site on a hill top in Vermont. “The American Stonehenge”. Similar to, but not as impressive as the original. It’s been dated back to pre-Colombian times. Much has been made of the fact that both American sites and Stone Henge lie on the same great circle line. If you know anything of nautical or aeronautical navigation you’ll be fascinated by three points on a great circle line, but not astounded. The walls he references are ubiquitous here. They date back to colonial settlement by Irish, Scots, and English. I have several here on my farm in Tennessee. I played on such one summer while on Maine in the early 1960’s. They mark field boundaries as the land was plowed and cleared. Rocks. Lots of rocks were drug from the fields and stacked thusly. Our civil war was frequently fought from behind such walls. Lead bullets can be found on one side of many walls, while canteens, ram rods and buttons are on the opposite side. With a metal detector. Pre-Colombian natives were smart. They might erect large stone cairns, but not stone walls. Silly colonists would work that hard. Either way you commenter is right. Those stone walls are a source of loose one-man stone. I’ve had several offer to buy and remove my more accessible stone walls. No sale!
When the Taliban destroyed the 90 ft tall Buddas in Alf I realized that religions are intolerant of each other. They are simply destroying evidence that their religion is bullshit. Christinsanity is no different.
Really interesting video - I can't get my head around the state not having a fundamental right to archaeological sites, and worse that barbaric landowners can bulldoze these sites without consequnce.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Hi Kayleigh. Just stumbled across your channel being recommended by UA-cam. Excellent work here! I used to work near the mounds in Ohio and have found dozens of points. I worked in the environmental field for USDA then with many dozens of landowners. We had to fill out pages of documentation if we found any artifacts. Archaeological sites are protected in most states and documented on very secretive maps we kept under lock and key. The problem has been trespassers and grave robbers looking for treasure more than landowners who most generally will allow some folks to look around. I have never worked with a landowner out of thousands who would desecrate sacred grounds. I have worked with developers who did. Ground penetrating radar can be very effective today. I can tell "you're not from around here" with all due respect. Wish my son could find a smart and pretty girl like you! Slim pickin's in the states today for 20 year old farm boys. Thanks for what you do! History, archaeology and culture my favorite topics. Looking forward to your next video.
Hi James, I'm incredibly happy to hear that the Archaeological sites are being protected, it made me Incredibly sad to think they weren't. Grave robbers unfortunately ruin a lot for many people on all continents.. some people want to watch the world burn i think? Let's hope your son finds a lass with some intelligence, we need more of that on this planet 😂🤭 I'm from the Netherlands, lived here my entire life so my accent might be a bit thick 😂
WHAT IN THE "I can't believe that I live RIGHT HERE, in he area she's talking about, and have NEVER heard of this before. NO,, I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAN! LIKE, .. i haven't even been able to figure out why ANYONE lives here NOW, ... and NOW, I am learning that this is one of the 'oldest sites in North America'. Well, at least it makes sense, because if people were so dumb, back then, that they thought 'What should I do today? OH, YEAH! A bunch of other things, that look like me, and are also REALLY stupid, are over there PILING UP that stuff that we all sleep and shit on. and making a whole bunch of big things that don't even have a name yet. I GUESS, I'll go do that too.' , then THAT explains why everyone around here is not that much smareter than that now." IS GOING ON HERE?
Crazy how I lived in Louisiana for years and no one talked about this. Makes me feel better in an odd way I wouldn't have been able to go see it if I did know about it lol
I understand that feeling, knowing it's there and not able to go there is worse than not knowing at the time. I was quite stunned to learn about such old earthworks in the United States 🤗
An extension to my idea of using a graphical timeline. It would be nice to start with a world map showing the location we visit today. It's such informative videos delivered in the calming voice of Kayleigh. There's a Danish word which can't really be translated called "hygge" and I sometimes find the videos on this channel to be "hyggelige".
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Maps are your friends. In 1985-86 I worked on a GIS of the lower Mississippi River. In so doing I crossed paths with another GIS of archeological sites. The two were not related. But, a good GIS is layered. You can sort by time and many other factors. One thing that jumps out of such a system IF you have the position of the ice sheet from the last glaciation input, is the proximity of sites both major and minor to the retreating edge of the ice sheet. Ice was a big deal then, and people basically scurried along as it advanced building mounds, henge, dolmens and other neat stuff. Often out of stones released by the very glacier they were near. So maps or GIS can give you a great perspective. Ya. You are gonna ask who had the GIS. I want to say NatGeo or Smithsonian.
Kayleigh your presentations just keep getting better. This is about 1 year but you have inspired me to go back to school for archaeology and blend it with my forensic crime scene background. Thank you
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This reminds me of when I got to go to Cahokia as a child. I love hearing about prehistoric life and civilizations so this channel is basically catnip to me.
Is this your first video on Neolithic Americas? As usual amazing work. Don't ever change this format. I'm so used to historytube showing one person walking around a site speculating - the small details may not be interesting for everyone, but this sort of content is exactly what I crave.
This was indeed my first video looking into Neolithic America, I'm definitely going to look into South America in the future as well 🤗 The intricate details are the things that interest me personally the most 🤭 I'm happy you enjoy watching! 🥰
Hi Kayleigh, thanks for another fascinating presentation. I hope that your work is rewarded by you being able to visit these sites and share your enthusiasm of personal experience. Please learn to dive or if that's is too much to ask send minion photographers or use stock footage (well worth the fee)of underwater sites of interest like Yonaguni for example as l would appreciate your opinion.
Such mounds exist across the SE United States. There is a site in southern Mississippi on the Natchez Trace Parkway. This is a National Parkservice facility open to the public. I have visited this site on several occasions. There is an observation put forth by a graduate student at Vanderbilt university in Nashville. As the ice sheet from the last ice age withdrew to the north, mounds were built near the edge of the ice. Thus the oldest mounds lie on a roughly E-W line. Those mounds found farther north are correspondingly younger. I has always been assumed these were burial mounds or held some spiritual significance. The few that were fully excavated have artifacts, bones, and the like. But nothing special. Crudely put they look like garbage dumps. The unapproved theory, then is that people lived atop these mounds. These mounds were built up over several generations. Given that a lot of ice was melting there would be a lot of water. The mounds may simply have been that most coveted of creature comforts, a dry place to sleep. Fuel for your future study? Fox-of-the-south.....back to you.
I wonder if there's a simple answer, which is the mounds got them up above often damp ground. I can see them building them out in circles or arcs with a common area inside, but each tent or tepee or wood shelter on its own mound. They might even cook family meals there. Like the Netherlands, Alabama and Mississippi are coastal lowlands, except in a subtropical climate. A small mound of silty, sandy soil above the surrounding land would drain easily and keep their homes dry.
There are mounds ALL over Louisiana. I was born in Marksville Louisiana. When I was a kid we would literately play on the mounds. We had no idea what they were. Unfortunately the vast majority of mounds have be plowed under for farm land. I also found a very large midden area full of discarded poetry, and bone tools. Amazing that it was thousands of years old. I still know the locations,, but I'm keeping that to myself. It's a real shame when private land owners destroy historical sites. If the government had it's priorities straight, it could offer farmers fair and ample compensation for access to the sites. But,,, NOOOOOOO that doesn't seem to happen. Not much is known about the Louisiana people..
As a note, aside from the hierarchy concept, it is worth reminding ourselves that resource abundance is a key to understanding larger construction projects… you mentioned this in the Meche video as well, where, without knowing the current status of data there, I’d argue the builders could have been very active fishers and harvesters of sea weeds which would be abundant there, and easily collected. It remains true that with adequate resources, the ability to take the time and energy, as well as to develop the skills needed to build large projects would be at best challenging.
Kayleigh, What is the oldest mound burial site in the world? Do they have a timeline of Mound Burials, and pyramids somewhere ? Im making one, but Im lazy, and I dont want to. So if it already exists will you please make a video about it?
Thank you so much for another very well done video! Suggestion: The Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois are far larger than the Watson Brake Mound Complex. The largest mound, named "Monk's Mound", has a base that is larger than the base of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. If you have time, this site could also form the basis of another very interesting video. It is estimated that at one time about 20,000 people lived at this complex. There was also a giant circle of wooden poles which has been given the name "Wood Hinge" and appears to have been used for some sort of ritual solar observances.
Great video. Here in the USA anything that is found with indigenous people is taken by them and not allowed to be in a college or museum these days. Bodies a snatched up a buried usually to rot or decay without any scientific study. It’s almost as bad as before when people destroyed things from ignorance in the early days of archaeology.
the sumerians trace their culture back as far as 5500 4500 bc which was helped from the halaf culture isn't it interesting that the same dates in the united states
I grew up in this area and as a child had no idea of the rich history it contained. As a geology student at the nearby university,,, NLU. I was befriended by the archeology professor, Glen Greene, who was a big influence. I took several classes in the early 80’’s with him and he took the class out to several mounds in the local area and without exception the sites where vandalized by “pot hunters”’, as the Doc described them, or by the landowners. The owners were typically farmers who feared having their land taken by the state under eminent domain and paid a fraction of the worth. That was the motivation usually given for pushing over the mounds and the hills were an easy deposit of fill dirt to use in construction.
Good video! A little correction the state owns it and has since the late 90's when it was looked at more closely. I live not far from this location. It is mostly timber land with farm land across the road between it and the river. Most of the land around this area is pine timber for the timber industry. The pictures you show are not 100% accurate to this location. Yes we do have a few alligators and such things, but in this are it is mostly tall pines with oak and such in the creek bottoms. I would predict that in that time the oak and hard woods were more prevalent but I suspect they might have cleared the land in small segments for different reasons. I once tried to find the place, but the mounds are not that big and it is a thick wooded area. We have rolling hills here also so the mounds would not stand out of the ordinary anyway. And one more correction the diet of this are is still the same for the most part. We enjoy or catfish and deer and duck.
Didn’t know about these mounds, thank you. In my reading I have discovered that we underestimate many of our ancestors. They had their geniuses like we do today. They planted trees, shrubs and other plants near by, and they set fish traps that remained full of fish. Their markets if you will.
In the interest of accuracy, the Newgrange complex is in the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. You make archaeology very interesting, thank you.
I have to ask a silly question. I love the different flowers you have are the orkids. I spelt it wrong. But I know your smart. So hopefully you can understand my disexya
Theres literally 2 mounds on the LSU campus which i grew up riding down on cardboard. Very little history is discussed about them but from what ive researched one of them dates back to about 2700 BC which is 200 years before the pyramids
Thank you. I had heard of Poverty point, but not of Watson Brake. does it not make your blood boil to hear of the destructions? |religious fanatics destroying ancient history in the USA, Iraq, Afghanistan...
Some of those projectile points looked unusual, they had an exaggerated cross piece where they were hafted. I've held a lot of really clear quartz projectiles and such, my dad and I use to find them all the time, he has them put away somewhere. But I've never seen anything like those pieces with the cross like that. That makes me curious if those were unique to that place in LA or have any ever been found elsewhere?
Inuit's of Alaska used to store big catches of fish in small stone mounds, maybe these mounds had a similar purpose. I think this also was the original purpose behind many European stone mounds.
Oh I’m so glad you’re going to do more mound videos! I just found your channel because of some other history UA-camrs. I’ve been binging and I’m loving your channel! Mounds in the US are my favorite thing so I can’t wait for more videos about them! Thank you!
i remember when i was in high school (20 years ago) and then later in college doing projects/papers on mound building societies (with whatever the current discoveries there were at the time). human history has always been fascinating to me. i call myself a christian but i'm definitely open to loose interpretations of parts of the old testament. drives me crazy when people try to draw a line in the sand and say nonsense like "if the bible says that the earth was created in X days then it was created in X days!".... in my opinion, if 'God' is outside of the dimension of time then what difference should it make to these people of the universe was created in a day or over the course of a billion + years?
So a third place in the world where complex structures were created prior to wide spread agriculture! (This place, Place you discussed in Peru and Ancient Place in Anatolia!)
As a Louisiana native and resident why am i just seeing this now, i know about poverty point, i’ve seen some mounds on the natchez trace in Mississippi too
The mounds are a defense. If you stand on top of the mound you will be able to see a GIANT coming from a long way off. If the GIANT was in close proximity you could use the mound to manicure. This land was full of GIANTS at one time. They had six fingers which is why the Indians would hold their hand up when creating to see if you were a six finger or a five finger. This and elongated heads are people of the NEPHILIM.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh do you find it peculiar that the only right the american natives still are allowed to have is the right to take any body found back to proper burial sites? Never to be investigated by archaeologists. Stripped of all other rights except the one which could further our knowledge of human connection in antiquity. American history is as self consuming as European history. This is not to disregard native american culture but I can't help but think that their belief might have been imposed on them!
I find it mostly peculiar that the native people from the land ar pushed into reservations where they have little to no chances to make it in this world where the American dream is a staple.. Native American history has been a long standing fascination of mine but i stopped looking into it because it's saddens me too much.. I'm glad to be able to shed light on some of their ancient history, the foundation of what eventually made their civilization flourish ❤️
You might have an actual chance to see them, i hope you do 🤗 I was amazed by the existence.of these mounds, unfortunately i won't ever be able to see them 🙂
11/09/2121 Thank you Kayleigh; well done. As an Australian I am very interested in the 70,000 years plus, which we have been inhabited. I understand that some of our earlier peoples may have wander further north and then accross the land bridge to the Americas with a number of these peoples surviving to this day in the very far south of the land mass. Has this been verified and were they part of the cultures which grew up in Peru and other areas? Keep up the good work!
Oh ok. Great video by the way. I love videos on ancient civilizations. We know so little and how much archeology has been destroyed and hidden through the years.
Love all the detail in your videos. I’m fascinated with paleoarchaeology and paleoanthropology, and you’re right that the Americas have some catching up to do when it comes to really old civilizations. Unfortunately there are a lot religious fundamentalists in some of the most interesting areas. The laws and the people are really backward and it makes it frustrating to do science. It’s easier to get permission for a dig in Iraq, Egypt, or Israel/Palestine than on private land in the US! Very interesting video, just like all of yours I’ve seen. Cool sporttrui - het staat je goed 😊
Oh hey suddenly some Dutch 🤭 I'm not used to that 😂 Dank je wel! I do feel like laws need to change in the States on the highest level so private landowners are forced to have their land investigated for ancient remnants.. A girl can dream..
Catching up on your earlier Presentation on Watson Brake which is 5 hours drive from me. I’m in South eastern Louisiana Watson Brake is in North Central Louisiana. The property was closed by owners for a very long time and not available for visitors. Locally we have a Midden that was unfortunately basically destroyed by agricultural development in the post WW2 years. Little remains. 😢
Right? Because they didn't find bones in the hills, they are 100% sure its an egalitarian society. Just wish these kinds of videos would add a few disclaimers. Say 'We believe" or "Because of X,Y,Z, it has been speculated that..."
May be is true what you say because according to the bible mankind has 6046 years old counting this year and the Noah's flood happened 4391 years ago counting this year too
DEAR KAYLEIGH, WOW WERE IN NORTH AMERICA WHERE I LIVE OF COURSE I LIVE IN THE CATSKILLS, BUT STILL AMERICA, LIKE SOME OF THE POINTS I GOT OUT IN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU DO A VIDEO ON THE EFFIGY MOUNDS ALSO!!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS AND GOD OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING THEY CAN'T DO THAT, THOSE BIBLE THUMPING IDIOTS, OF THE SOUTH!!!GARY SORRY I AM RANTING, TRUST ME THOUGH LIVE AMONGST THEM AND YOU WOULD RANT TOO!!! GARY
Love the videos, but please stop the adds that go on forever… I listen before I go to sleep n have to get up just to hit skip because there god knows how long.. lol.. if possible I suggest just using the 5-10 second add that just roll on
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I thought poverty point went back 8 thousand years but I could be wrong, either way those places are awesome and I have a question for you, I live in southeast Missouri and on my families property there is a big rock wall with native American pictures on it and a few years ago we were told it is a shrine to the underwater panther god but other than that we don't know much, I'd like to send you pictures of the drawings to get your opinion if you would like to, this place isn't on the record at all other than a few folks that live around it
@@HistoryWithKayleigh it will take me a few weeks because I'm going to Wisconsin tomorrow but I certainly will when I get back, the only folks who have looked at it were from Washington University in STL and they drank my dad's booze, used our side by sides, took a bunch of pictures and didn't tell us anything other than it's an underwater panther shrine and they weren't going to publish anything about it due to the chance of vandalism which is understandable I guess
We have mounds in south central Florida and if you even step foot on one you could go to jail. land owners are not aloud to dig or alter mounds. If they do and are caught they could go to jail.
This was cool! I knew about the Miami, the Mississippi mound builders, Snake Mound in Ohio, and my newest discovery; megalithic sites in the Hudson Valley of New York state. A couple hours drive for me. The TV show America Unearthed has shown a lot of different sites in my country. The United States has a rich and diverse ancient history that is never taught in school. And it is older than the Clovis culture.✌️🐱 Pets and scritches to the kitties, and great video!
I heard about the Cahokia mounds and learned that Florida had them, so i started researching and found that this is one of the oldest earthworks but definitely the most complex earthwork from that timeframe 😍 I hope that in a few years more about the ancient history will be taught at schools. We need to shed more light on these ancient structures ❤️
There's one in Alabama that's only recently been discovered I think it maybe connected to the Mayans that came to Georgia. Look into clay to make Mayan blue with. Anyway the site is a snake effigy. It's on skeleton mountain in Calhoun county. It's only accessible thru a guided trip via local state college.
I very much appreciate the work you did on this, like your other videos. There is too little work done on the history of North America. The history is fascinating. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I was stunned by this ancient site and was sad to see not many people knew about it. Currently working on a south American location, very excited for that!
I was trying to explain to my neighbor who claims he is part Cherokee that the Cherokee came here much later and originally not first native Americans such as the Hopewell.
It's very unclear who the first cultures in north America were. Not much that they left behind and it's mostly disturbed with the gold rushes and the deforestation 🙂 I do know in the Mesa Verde area that they found extremely old artefacts, so that is for sure a clue 🙂
Awesome video! Very well researched and very well presented! Thumbs up! 👍
Thank you so much! 🤗
I live near a single solitary Hopewell mound called Towner's Mound. It was excavated, but almost all of the data and artifacts from it have been lost. It breaks my heart that we'll never know more about the people who built it.
Enjoyed this, you have definitely done your research
Thank you so much! 🤗
Another fascinating and interesting piece of history..
It sure is Terry, i was amazed by it's antiquity 🤗
Another great video thanks.
Thank you! 🥰
Aloha Kayleigh, Finally, I have come across a comment that our mounds in the Mississippi Valley may have been for flood protection. Instead of being a least likely purpose, as seen in evaluations by mainstream archaeologists, it is, in my opinion, the most likely purpose - and all for the reasons you outlined! Again, you have done a very good job in an area of research that needs the research and the presentation. The egalitarian social need for flood protection far exceeds the hierarchical suggestions being made. Anthropologists keep finding that children worldwide in "older" cultures, respond to questions of motivation and sharing with a community first motivation. Keep it up! You are doing a great job! Aloha
Thank you Ken!
I've found your email in my spam folder this morning, i will respond in a few days once i have the time to 🤗
First i will have to finish this next video🥰
thank you kayleigh
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I found a mound that dwarfs the sizes stated in this video. It is located between Crown Point and Lafitte , La. It is in the swamps located in the Baratatia basin. I have always wanted to do a little research and maybe digging.
LIDAR is a great technology that could help here.
It would truly help a lot 🥰
I wish lidar could be done all over the lower Mississippi Valley. It would likely reveal more sites that either never knew existed or have been partially destroyed.
great video about a great culture. it's strange that anyone would want to remove evidence of such an ancient people on our continent. one would think that we'd be proud to have such early builders works in situ. would have liked to have been one who was allowed to excavate there. really good to have you back with new videos, Kayleigh!
I'm happy to be back! Thankfully i am recharged and ready for a new year 🤗
Let's hope in the future the mounds won't get destroyed and researched better! 🤞
@@HistoryWithKayleigh i'm with you on that. we need to protect as many of these prehistoric sites as possible. you never know what can be learned from ancient cultures. we have already benefitted from knowledge of ancient remedies for pain and other types of maladies. who knows?
Fingers crossed we can preserve the ancient sites 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh i think educating the public can go a long way toward that goal. which is what you do with your videos. they are quite indepth yet easy to understand. hopefully, your fame will spread and more people will be hooked, as many of us are now. keep uploading and we'll keep watching.
Thank you for you Incredibly kind words! That is my ultimate goal 🤗
A most succinct and to the point presentation of this exceptional site, thank you.
Thank you!
It is going to be a sad footnote of the US. We have long had this idea of making the place ours and erasing anything that gets in the way. I used to hear stories growing up in New England of ancient stone structures torn apart to use the rock to pave roads and build bridges during the colonial era.
But I guess short term memories also foster thoughts of these ancient structures. Growing up you would find these rock walls through all of New England that were everywhere, even rural wooded areas. Now we know what they were, but that mystery before the internet was a nice gateway into exploring these sorts of things.
It's a shame that much has been destroyed over time, they did destroy quite a lot here and in the middle east as well to create buildings and pave roads..
Hopefully we can preserve what is left and research that and find out more about the ancient history in the US.
The rock walls do sound awesome 🤗
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Two things going on here. There are pre-colonial rock structures in New England, and farther south. Even west. For instance. There is a stone structure, a tower of sorts on the coast of Massachusetts that predates the United States. There is a site on a hill top in Vermont. “The American Stonehenge”. Similar to, but not as impressive as the original. It’s been dated back to pre-Colombian times. Much has been made of the fact that both American sites and Stone Henge lie on the same great circle line. If you know anything of nautical or aeronautical navigation you’ll be fascinated by three points on a great circle line, but not astounded.
The walls he references are ubiquitous here. They date back to colonial settlement by Irish, Scots, and English. I have several here on my farm in Tennessee. I played on such one summer while on Maine in the early 1960’s. They mark field boundaries as the land was plowed and cleared. Rocks. Lots of rocks were drug from the fields and stacked thusly.
Our civil war was frequently fought from behind such walls. Lead bullets can be found on one side of many walls, while canteens, ram rods and buttons are on the opposite side. With a metal detector.
Pre-Colombian natives were smart. They might erect large stone cairns, but not stone walls. Silly colonists would work that hard. Either way you commenter is right. Those stone walls are a source of loose one-man stone. I’ve had several offer to buy and remove my more accessible stone walls. No sale!
People have done that the all over the world
When the Taliban destroyed the 90 ft tall Buddas in Alf I realized that religions are intolerant of each other. They are simply destroying evidence that their religion is bullshit. Christinsanity is no different.
@@MrJento Nice name. I was shocked when I first learned that Foxes are not Canids.
Really interesting video - I can't get my head around the state not having a fundamental right to archaeological sites, and worse that barbaric landowners can bulldoze these sites without consequnce.
It's Incredibly sad to see the state of these monuments, especially when you only see trees and it seems like nothing is there.. 😢
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Hi Kayleigh. Just stumbled across your channel being recommended by UA-cam. Excellent work here! I used to work near the mounds in Ohio and have found dozens of points. I worked in the environmental field for USDA then with many dozens of landowners. We had to fill out pages of documentation if we found any artifacts. Archaeological sites are protected in most states and documented on very secretive maps we kept under lock and key. The problem has been trespassers and grave robbers looking for treasure more than landowners who most generally will allow some folks to look around. I have never worked with a landowner out of thousands who would desecrate sacred grounds. I have worked with developers who did. Ground penetrating radar can be very effective today. I can tell "you're not from around here" with all due respect. Wish my son could find a smart and pretty girl like you! Slim pickin's in the states today for 20 year old farm boys. Thanks for what you do! History, archaeology and culture my favorite topics. Looking forward to your next video.
Hi James, I'm incredibly happy to hear that the Archaeological sites are being protected, it made me Incredibly sad to think they weren't.
Grave robbers unfortunately ruin a lot for many people on all continents.. some people want to watch the world burn i think?
Let's hope your son finds a lass with some intelligence, we need more of that on this planet 😂🤭
I'm from the Netherlands, lived here my entire life so my accent might be a bit thick 😂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh As were some of my my ancestors. A place I have always wanted to visit! Nice to hear from you. :)
So your last name used to have the ij instead of the y i presume haha, we have a lot of Snijder families in the Netherlands 🤗
WHAT IN THE "I can't believe that I live RIGHT HERE, in he area she's talking about, and have NEVER heard of this before. NO,, I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAN! LIKE, .. i haven't even been able to figure out why ANYONE lives here NOW, ... and NOW, I am learning that this is one of the 'oldest sites in North America'. Well, at least it makes sense, because if people were so dumb, back then, that they thought 'What should I do today? OH, YEAH! A bunch of other things, that look like me, and are also REALLY stupid, are over there PILING UP that stuff that we all sleep and shit on. and making a whole bunch of big things that don't even have a name yet. I GUESS, I'll go do that too.' , then THAT explains why everyone around here is not that much smareter than that now." IS GOING ON HERE?
Nice sweatshirt.
MOUNDS (best Beavis voice)! 🤣🤣🤣
Crazy how I lived in Louisiana for years and no one talked about this. Makes me feel better in an odd way I wouldn't have been able to go see it if I did know about it lol
I understand that feeling, knowing it's there and not able to go there is worse than not knowing at the time.
I was quite stunned to learn about such old earthworks in the United States 🤗
An extension to my idea of using a graphical timeline. It would be nice to start with a world map showing the location we visit today.
It's such informative videos delivered in the calming voice of Kayleigh. There's a Danish word which can't really be translated called "hygge" and I sometimes find the videos on this channel to be "hyggelige".
I sometimes do a world map thing, i can do that more often 🙂
Just need to remember to open Google earth 😅😂
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Maps are your friends. In 1985-86 I worked on a GIS of the lower Mississippi River. In so doing I crossed paths with another GIS of archeological sites. The two were not related.
But, a good GIS is layered. You can sort by time and many other factors. One thing that jumps out of such a system IF you have the position of the ice sheet from the last glaciation input, is the proximity of sites both major and minor to the retreating edge of the ice sheet. Ice was a big deal then, and people basically scurried along as it advanced building mounds, henge, dolmens and other neat stuff. Often out of stones released by the very glacier they were near.
So maps or GIS can give you a great perspective. Ya. You are gonna ask who had the GIS. I want to say NatGeo or Smithsonian.
Kayleigh your presentations just keep getting better. This is about 1 year but you have inspired me to go back to school for archaeology and blend it with my forensic crime scene background. Thank you
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This reminds me of when I got to go to Cahokia as a child. I love hearing about prehistoric life and civilizations so this channel is basically catnip to me.
Ha catnip 🤭
You've come to the right place Rosie 🥰
Yes this is another place I would love to visit and learn about
If their were gators around, at that time. Id say ask them where the beads went. 🤣
Is this your first video on Neolithic Americas? As usual amazing work. Don't ever change this format. I'm so used to historytube showing one person walking around a site speculating - the small details may not be interesting for everyone, but this sort of content is exactly what I crave.
This was indeed my first video looking into Neolithic America, I'm definitely going to look into South America in the future as well 🤗
The intricate details are the things that interest me personally the most 🤭
I'm happy you enjoy watching! 🥰
Hi Kayleigh, thanks for another fascinating presentation. I hope that your work is rewarded by you being able to visit these sites and share your enthusiasm of personal experience. Please learn to dive or if that's is too much to ask send minion photographers
or use stock footage (well worth the fee)of underwater sites of interest like Yonaguni for example as l would appreciate your opinion.
Hello!
Apologies, the site mentioned is a challenging dive due to sea current
I have just remembered this so please forgive my silly suggestion.
Such mounds exist across the SE United States. There is a site in southern Mississippi on the Natchez Trace Parkway. This is a National Parkservice facility open to the public. I have visited this site on several occasions.
There is an observation put forth by a graduate student at Vanderbilt university in Nashville. As the ice sheet from the last ice age withdrew to the north, mounds were built near the edge of the ice. Thus the oldest mounds lie on a roughly E-W line. Those mounds found farther north are correspondingly younger.
I has always been assumed these were burial mounds or held some spiritual significance. The few that were fully excavated have artifacts, bones, and the like. But nothing special. Crudely put they look like garbage dumps.
The unapproved theory, then is that people lived atop these mounds. These mounds were built up over several generations. Given that a lot of ice was melting there would be a lot of water. The mounds may simply have been that most coveted of creature comforts, a dry place to sleep. Fuel for your future study? Fox-of-the-south.....back to you.
I enjoy how much information you pack into your videos. Always clear and concise. Thanks.
Thank you so much! I try to put in everything i can find without making it too overwhelming 🤗
I wonder if there's a simple answer, which is the mounds got them up above often damp ground. I can see them building them out in circles or arcs with a common area inside, but each tent or tepee or wood shelter on its own mound. They might even cook family meals there. Like the Netherlands, Alabama and Mississippi are coastal lowlands, except in a subtropical climate. A small mound of silty, sandy soil above the surrounding land would drain easily and keep their homes dry.
There are mounds ALL over Louisiana. I was born in Marksville Louisiana. When I was a kid we would literately play on the mounds. We had no idea what they were. Unfortunately the vast majority of mounds have be plowed under for farm land. I also found a very large midden area full of discarded poetry, and bone tools. Amazing that it was thousands of years old. I still know the locations,, but I'm keeping that to myself. It's a real shame when private land owners destroy historical sites. If the government had it's priorities straight, it could offer farmers fair and ample compensation for access to the sites. But,,, NOOOOOOO that doesn't seem to happen. Not much is known about the Louisiana people..
As a note, aside from the hierarchy concept, it is worth reminding ourselves that resource abundance is a key to understanding larger construction projects… you mentioned this in the Meche video as well, where, without knowing the current status of data there, I’d argue the builders could have been very active fishers and harvesters of sea weeds which would be abundant there, and easily collected.
It remains true that with adequate resources, the ability to take the time and energy, as well as to develop the skills needed to build large projects would be at best challenging.
Kayleigh, What is the oldest mound burial site in the world? Do they have a timeline of Mound Burials, and pyramids somewhere ? Im making one, but Im lazy, and I dont want to. So if it already exists will you please make a video about it?
How do you even know all of this? A fountain of knowledge 😍 very nice video!
Aaah thank you! It takes a while to find all the information and create a script, hopefully that hard work is worth it 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh absolutly!
Thank you so much for another very well done video! Suggestion: The Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois are far larger than the Watson Brake Mound Complex. The largest mound, named "Monk's Mound", has a base that is larger than the base of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. If you have time, this site could also form the basis of another very interesting video. It is estimated that at one time about 20,000 people lived at this complex. There was also a giant circle of wooden poles which has been given the name "Wood Hinge" and appears to have been used for some sort of ritual solar observances.
Great video. Here in the USA anything that is found with indigenous people is taken by them and not allowed to be in a college or museum these days. Bodies a snatched up a buried usually to rot or decay without any scientific study. It’s almost as bad as before when people destroyed things from ignorance in the early days of archaeology.
the sumerians trace their culture back as far as 5500 4500 bc which was helped from the halaf culture isn't it interesting that the same dates in the united states
I think all the cultures had their origins between 10.000&5000 BCE.. they pop up everywhere and the cave art is even older than these structures 🤗
I'm from this area and the people here sometimes can be obstinate... Enjoyed your presentation Kaleigh... One of your best.
I grew up in this area and as a child had no idea of the rich history it contained. As a geology student at the nearby university,,, NLU. I was befriended by the archeology professor, Glen Greene, who was a big influence. I took several classes in the early 80’’s with him and he took the class out to several mounds in the local area and without exception the sites where vandalized by “pot hunters”’, as the Doc described them, or by the landowners. The owners were typically farmers who feared having their land taken by the state under eminent domain and paid a fraction of the worth. That was the motivation usually given for pushing over the mounds and the hills were an easy deposit of fill dirt to use in construction.
Good video! A little correction the state owns it and has since the late 90's when it was looked at more closely. I live not far from this location. It is mostly timber land with farm land across the road between it and the river. Most of the land around this area is pine timber for the timber industry. The pictures you show are not 100% accurate to this location. Yes we do have a few alligators and such things, but in this are it is mostly tall pines with oak and such in the creek bottoms. I would predict that in that time the oak and hard woods were more prevalent but I suspect they might have cleared the land in small segments for different reasons. I once tried to find the place, but the mounds are not that big and it is a thick wooded area. We have rolling hills here also so the mounds would not stand out of the ordinary anyway. And one more correction the diet of this are is still the same for the most part. We enjoy or catfish and deer and duck.
Yeah ! USA! We don't have much old stuff....
Didn’t know about these mounds, thank you. In my reading I have discovered that we underestimate many of our ancestors. They had their geniuses like we do today. They planted trees, shrubs and other plants near by, and they set fish traps that remained full of fish. Their markets if you will.
In the interest of accuracy, the Newgrange complex is in the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. You make archaeology very interesting, thank you.
I have to ask a silly question. I love the different flowers you have are the orkids. I spelt it wrong. But I know your smart. So hopefully you can understand my disexya
I indeed almost always have an Orchid in my videos 🥰
They're my favorite flowers 🥰
Theres literally 2 mounds on the LSU campus which i grew up riding down on cardboard. Very little history is discussed about them but from what ive researched one of them dates back to about 2700 BC which is 200 years before the pyramids
Thank you. I had heard of Poverty point, but not of Watson Brake. does it not make your blood boil to hear of the destructions? |religious fanatics destroying ancient history in the USA, Iraq, Afghanistan...
Some of those projectile points looked unusual, they had an exaggerated cross piece where they were hafted. I've held a lot of really clear quartz projectiles and such, my dad and I use to find them all the time, he has them put away somewhere. But I've never seen anything like those pieces with the cross like that. That makes me curious if those were unique to that place in LA or have any ever been found elsewhere?
Inuit's of Alaska used to store big catches of fish in small stone mounds, maybe these mounds had a similar purpose. I think this also was the original purpose behind many European stone mounds.
That's a new perspective i hadn't heard of, thank you 🙂 they could've definitely had a different purpose 🤗
To my knowledge, the natives here in Louisiana built mounds as burial mounds, land marks to meet for trade, and/or sacred sites.
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Oh I’m so glad you’re going to do more mound videos! I just found your channel because of some other history UA-camrs. I’ve been binging and I’m loving your channel! Mounds in the US are my favorite thing so I can’t wait for more videos about them! Thank you!
I'll definitely be covering more American mounds in the future 🤗🤗🥰
mosquitoes, they built the mounds to get higher in higher air flow and escape mosquitoes :)
Cool... I live near there ❤... Thanks Kayleigh 😊
Really interesting video once again, Kayleigh! Totally new information for me, very valuable for the history of America!
I was like 69 ^^
Ha! like #69 😂
I was quite amazed with the ancient history i uncovered in this research 🤗
Definitely going to look into it more in the future 💕
A very nice and informative video. It is especially interesting in light of discoveries at Gobekli Tepe.
Thank you 🤗
Hunter gathers don't build large structures like that...clearly these ppl are more civilized that ppl are wanting to give them credit for.
There is a mound on the LSU campus (Baton Rouge) which is farther South that was dated to 12k yo..
i remember when i was in high school (20 years ago) and then later in college doing projects/papers on mound building societies (with whatever the current discoveries there were at the time). human history has always been fascinating to me.
i call myself a christian but i'm definitely open to loose interpretations of parts of the old testament. drives me crazy when people try to draw a line in the sand and say nonsense like "if the bible says that the earth was created in X days then it was created in X days!"....
in my opinion, if 'God' is outside of the dimension of time then what difference should it make to these people of the universe was created in a day or over the course of a billion + years?
Please look into the Serphant Mound in ohio.
i've had it on the list for a future video, definitely will cover it! 😍
Thanks
So a third place in the world where complex structures were created prior to wide spread agriculture! (This place, Place you discussed in Peru and Ancient Place in Anatolia!)
As a Louisiana native and resident why am i just seeing this now, i know about poverty point, i’ve seen some mounds on the natchez trace in Mississippi too
Wonderful presentation, as always! 🤗
Thank you so much Barry! 🤗
The mounds are a defense. If you stand on top of the mound you will be able to see a GIANT coming from a long way off. If the GIANT was in close proximity you could use the mound to manicure. This land was full of GIANTS at one time. They had six fingers which is why the Indians would hold their hand up when creating to see if you were a six finger or a five finger. This and elongated heads are people of the NEPHILIM.
Thanks, I needed this for my world history project.
I've been studying the Caddo Mounds for some time now. The Spiro Mounds are particularly interesting.
WOW! very informative and the wildlife in their habitat are beautiful, thank you!
Nice job. I live in Ohio. Let me know if you need any footage from out mounds near Newark OH.
I will 🤗
Great video Kayleigh. I am familiar with the mound builders ,but was not aware of this one.
Nice work!
Did you happen to note which organisation of archaeology was given access to the surviving sites?
Unfortunately there is no information, the families apparently only give special access to certain archaeologists. There wasn't more i could find.. 🙁
@@HistoryWithKayleigh do you find it peculiar that the only right the american natives still are allowed to have is the right to take any body found back to proper burial sites? Never to be investigated by archaeologists. Stripped of all other rights except the one which could further our knowledge of human connection in antiquity. American history is as self consuming as European history. This is not to disregard native american culture but I can't help but think that their belief might have been imposed on them!
I find it mostly peculiar that the native people from the land ar pushed into reservations where they have little to no chances to make it in this world where the American dream is a staple..
Native American history has been a long standing fascination of mine but i stopped looking into it because it's saddens me too much..
I'm glad to be able to shed light on some of their ancient history, the foundation of what eventually made their civilization flourish ❤️
Someone , ANYONE please preserve our History and knowledge from religious extremists, like the US version of ISIS indicated here.
HNY Kayleigh! 😁❤
I’m kin to the Gentry’s through my grandmother Jan Gentry that own the land that the mounds are located. I would love to see them one day
You might have an actual chance to see them, i hope you do 🤗
I was amazed by the existence.of these mounds, unfortunately i won't ever be able to see them 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh they found traces of + 17000 year old civilisations bevore the so called Clovis people
11/09/2121 Thank you Kayleigh; well done. As an Australian I am very interested in the 70,000 years plus, which we have been inhabited. I understand that some of our earlier peoples may have wander further north and then accross the land bridge to the Americas with a number of these peoples surviving to this day in the very far south of the land mass. Has this been verified and were they part of the cultures which grew up in Peru and other areas? Keep up the good work!
I'll have to look a lot more into it, I'm not the most well versed about the migration of populations 🙂
Where are you from? Can't place accent?
I'm from the Netherlands 🤗
Oh ok. Great video by the way. I love videos on ancient civilizations. We know so little and how much archeology has been destroyed and hidden through the years.
I try to uncover more and I'm enjoying learning this much about the ancient civilizations 🥰
Love all the detail in your videos. I’m fascinated with paleoarchaeology and paleoanthropology, and you’re right that the Americas have some catching up to do when it comes to really old civilizations. Unfortunately there are a lot religious fundamentalists in some of the most interesting areas. The laws and the people are really backward and it makes it frustrating to do science. It’s easier to get permission for a dig in Iraq, Egypt, or Israel/Palestine than on private land in the US! Very interesting video, just like all of yours I’ve seen. Cool sporttrui - het staat je goed 😊
Oh hey suddenly some Dutch 🤭
I'm not used to that 😂
Dank je wel!
I do feel like laws need to change in the States on the highest level so private landowners are forced to have their land investigated for ancient remnants..
A girl can dream..
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Just confusing that it is called "Evans Culture" when it is Native American.
The US has a poor archeology record, seems they (elite and leaders) don't want ths pre-immigrants history to be know. So sad!
Lol OK
I wonder if the artifacts were found on the mounds or in front of 🤔
Artefacts were mostly found on the mounds, and some around it 🤗
Catching up on your earlier Presentation on Watson Brake which is 5 hours drive from me. I’m in South eastern Louisiana Watson Brake is in North Central Louisiana. The property was closed by owners for a very long time and not available for visitors. Locally we have a Midden that was unfortunately basically destroyed by agricultural development in the post WW2 years. Little remains. 😢
Sadly, this site located in a private property.
Very sad indeed
You should check out Australia's Mullumbimby Stone Circle
Kayleigh!! I love when you have the blackboard with the white letters out!😅🎉 so fun !!! Haha 😹 😎
This is awesome!
Thank you Barry! I hope I've done the location and it's builders justice ❤️
Egalitarian my ass. BC, AD.
Right? Because they didn't find bones in the hills, they are 100% sure its an egalitarian society. Just wish these kinds of videos would add a few disclaimers. Say 'We believe" or "Because of X,Y,Z, it has been speculated that..."
May be is true what you say because according to the bible mankind has 6046 years old counting this year and the Noah's flood happened 4391 years ago counting this year too
Fellow Named George skipper burned alive in his car in Alabama recently.
DEAR KAYLEIGH, WOW WERE IN NORTH AMERICA WHERE I LIVE OF COURSE I LIVE IN THE CATSKILLS, BUT STILL AMERICA, LIKE SOME OF THE POINTS I GOT OUT IN ARIZONA AND
NEW MEXICO, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU DO A VIDEO ON THE EFFIGY MOUNDS ALSO!!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS AND GOD OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING THEY CAN'T DO THAT, THOSE BIBLE THUMPING IDIOTS, OF THE SOUTH!!!GARY SORRY I AM RANTING, TRUST ME THOUGH LIVE AMONGST THEM AND YOU WOULD RANT TOO!!! GARY
Love the videos, but please stop the adds that go on forever… I listen before I go to sleep n have to get up just to hit skip because there god knows how long.. lol.. if possible I suggest just using the 5-10 second add that just roll on
Similar spear heads as same as those excavated at 48000 year old Pahiyangala site in Sri Lanka
Poverty point is older than that and it's in Louisiana as well
It's not older 😉
It's actually at least 1000 to 1500 years younger 😉
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I thought poverty point went back 8 thousand years but I could be wrong, either way those places are awesome and I have a question for you, I live in southeast Missouri and on my families property there is a big rock wall with native American pictures on it and a few years ago we were told it is a shrine to the underwater panther god but other than that we don't know much, I'd like to send you pictures of the drawings to get your opinion if you would like to, this place isn't on the record at all other than a few folks that live around it
Poverty point is some 3000-3500 years old 🙂
You can find my email on my about page here on UA-cam, feel free to send me an email with pictures 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh it will take me a few weeks because I'm going to Wisconsin tomorrow but I certainly will when I get back, the only folks who have looked at it were from Washington University in STL and they drank my dad's booze, used our side by sides, took a bunch of pictures and didn't tell us anything other than it's an underwater panther shrine and they weren't going to publish anything about it due to the chance of vandalism which is understandable I guess
Take all the time you need 😉
We have mounds in south central Florida and if you even step foot on one you could go to jail. land owners are not aloud to dig or alter mounds. If they do and are caught they could go to jail.
This was cool! I knew about the Miami, the Mississippi mound builders, Snake Mound in Ohio, and my newest discovery; megalithic sites in the Hudson Valley of New York state. A couple hours drive for me. The TV show America Unearthed has shown a lot of different sites in my country. The United States has a rich and diverse ancient history that is never taught in school. And it is older than the Clovis culture.✌️🐱 Pets and scritches to the kitties, and great video!
I heard about the Cahokia mounds and learned that Florida had them, so i started researching and found that this is one of the oldest earthworks but definitely the most complex earthwork from that timeframe 😍
I hope that in a few years more about the ancient history will be taught at schools.
We need to shed more light on these ancient structures ❤️
There's one in Alabama that's only recently been discovered I think it maybe connected to the Mayans that came to Georgia. Look into clay to make Mayan blue with. Anyway the site is a snake effigy. It's on skeleton mountain in Calhoun county. It's only accessible thru a guided trip via local state college.
Why am I just now hearing about this and I’m from Monroe
Thanks Kayleigh!
Who dat?
Louisiana is extremely racist. Trust me I live in Monroe
How were their abodes? Were any human bones found?
I very much appreciate the work you did on this, like your other videos. There is too little work done on the history of North America. The history is fascinating. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I was stunned by this ancient site and was sad to see not many people knew about it.
Currently working on a south American location, very excited for that!
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Thank you again. I will look forward to it.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Oh! And by the way, Ancient Architects deserves a shout out for referring me to your channel.
Ancient Architects has been incredibly kind by shouting me out, I'm beyond grateful 🤗
Baton Rouge means red stick
Why were eagles so important to these indians?
I was trying to explain to my neighbor who claims he is part Cherokee that the Cherokee came here much later and originally not first native Americans such as the Hopewell.
It's very unclear who the first cultures in north America were. Not much that they left behind and it's mostly disturbed with the gold rushes and the deforestation 🙂
I do know in the Mesa Verde area that they found extremely old artefacts, so that is for sure a clue 🙂
Where did the name “Watson Brake” come from?
Could you do a video on the Koster sitre in Illinois?
My swamp is so beautiful