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Astronomical Alignments at Poverty Point

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Kenneth Brecher  and
William G. Haag
Kenneth Brecher
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215
William G. Haag
Affiliation:
Department of Geoscience, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
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Abstract

We reiterate our previous suggestion that the Poverty Point earthwork possesses solar and possibly other stellar alignments.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 161 - 163
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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