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Supposed Solar Alignments at Poverty Point

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert D. Purrington
Robert D. Purrington*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
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Abstract

The suggestion of Brecher and Haag that the Poverty Point, Louisiana, earthwork structure possesses solar alignments is shown to be incorrect. The existence of other astronomical markers is problematical.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 157 - 161
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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