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Supposed Solar Alignments at Poverty Point
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
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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