Of course, at the bottom of the article it mentions that they are going to be dug up next year anyway...
They have been carefully preserved and never excavated, only cored once. They are 6,000 years old and among the oldest buildings in North America and highly significant anthropologically. It's their AGE, Gilligan. These are ancient human-made structures far older than the effigy mounds. The pyramids are literally piles of stone. The LSU mounds were 1,000 years old when the pyramids were built. You must be very proud of all illegal looters and vandals of archaeological sites. :insane:
Why is it a big deal to preserve anything, much less something that has been proven to be so old? People got over the new regulations regarding the oak trees a few years ago. We can appreciate some trees but not a structure built by ancient peoples? I realize it looks like a simple grassy hill, but it's not. Seems like a simple request. Go play anywhere else but here. Dumb thing to get mad about.
There's nothing wrong with preserving them. They are just going overboard. 7 days out of a year where kids slide down them on cardboard isn't going to hurt anything. It's far less wear and tear than the weather already does.
Why don't all these LSU anthropologist start digging? People normally get that and I'm kinda curious.
come on Red, you think a handful of kids sliding down those mounds on cardboard is more damaging than mother nature, and natural erosion?
