Everybody wants to know, that's why the site is so important and must be preserved for future study. Mounds of this type do not usually contain human remains and are not burial mounds. They may contain human artifacts or not. They will certainly contain organic and geologic samples that help determine the environment, internal structure, and many other things. These type mounds are among the oldest in the country and may be ceremonial, although ceremonial mounds are typically larger. Or they may be a marker between two tribes, a forerunner to the famous baton rouge. They could possibly be a defensive work, once surrounded by a palisade. The mound, ditch and palisade is among the oldest known fort types. Most of these are found along major rivers like the Mississippi and could possibly be a lookout point. It is significant that the terrace bluff that the mounds stand upon is the first high ground encountered when coming up the Mississippi . . . 231 river miles from Head of Passes. It is in fact possible that these mounds were built for ancient stone-age children to roll down. :yelwink2: They still need to be preserved and studied and they are irreplaceable. There are other hills nearby for kids to play on. When I win the friggin' Powerball I will build a mound near Tiger Stadium for the kids to slide down. There is a giant point because this is a significant prehistoric site. Can you not grasp the significance of a building that old? If confirmed by next year's excavation, these will be the oldest mounds in North America.
And in another 6000 years lifeforms will be talking about how human children once slide down the hills on a substance called "cardboard" before large gatherings where young adults beat each other over a "pigskin". Why should we be left out of history for the sole purpose of preserving it? :hihi:
Comparing the oaks and the mounds is about as off as comparing LSU and TULANE...one is a living breathing organism and the other isnt an inanimate object. Not to mention it takes far less outside forces to kill a tree then it would to bring down the mounds. Not saying that the mounds shouldnt be persevered because they should...just your comparison is way way off.
I am not comparing them based on their animation, the comparison is based on LSU's decision to save them. If they are worth saving , then LSU has a right to do so, regardless of the desires of a child or their parents. If this were a monument that skateboarders were wearing out, it would be the same thing. Being alive has nothing to do with it. Perhaps, but hundreds of kids are not jumping and stomping on the oaks 8 times/year. And you have no idea what it takes to bring down the mounds. Nor do you know how to measure the cumulative damage that has occurred due to weather and foot traffic. But the geologists & archaeologists do. I will defer to the experts.
This is what I am talking about I know if I take an axe and hit that oak tree in the same spot 50 times there is almost 100% chance the tree is gonna die or become infested with some sort of fungus or bug....if I hit the mound with the same axe the same number of times...the effect is not gonna be as great nor as fast. Your stating in your logic that kids playing on the mounds 7 days a year are just as destructive as allowing the cars to park on the oaks...and your wrong...you cant compare the destructive nature of a force to a living thing to the destructive nature of a force to a nonliving thing...the effects each have on the object they are effecting is greatly different and in some cases immediately felt. LSU has the right to protect ANYTHING on their campus just as much as I have the right to protect anything on my property or you on yours...i'm not debating that. I'm saying your comparison between the two is wrong....if both are left untouched those trees have a hard fight to stay alive then the mounds have to stay upright.
I will say this if your gonna block them on Gameday then block them off at all times. Build a fence around them, put up signs and informational stuff, and treat them as if its an exhibit in a museum.
I can tell you why they were placed there cause many moons ago before the corps built the levees the mighty angry old man river was allowed to roam freely through out the land and the red man was sick and tried of having to tread water for many days and many nights until the mighty river returned to his home...so one day this indian from the north had lost his way...they called him....HimWhoWearHatToHigh and he showed up right as the river was at his angryist...well the local redmen took notice to how HattoHigh was able to keep his hat dry...and THAT is Why the Mounds are Important
What a wasted thread. There is nothing wrong with rolling down the hills as I did that every summer when I went to Dale Brown's b-ball camp along with random times throughout the year when we went to LSU.
