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Project: To make general public and county officials aware of the connections of Hancock County’s Claiborne site to Louisiana’s Poverty Point, recently given the designation World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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Exciting news
Last week, a young lady who is with the University of Colorado, and serves as the liaison with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, brought me some exciting information.
This lady, who has been following my website and is acquainted with the Claiborne connection to Poverty Point, installed on my computer an hour-long lecture she had attended. It was given by a renowned anthropologist from the University of Florida. His talk included the relationship of Claiborne to Poverty Point.
A clear hypothesis emerges from the lecture indicating that Claiborne came first. In the words of the speaker, "I would argue that the people of Claiborne had a direct hand in the orientation and engineering calculus of Poverty Point." .
There is no other way to interpret his remarks without wondering that our site, though smaller, not only preceded Louisiana's, but may have been instrumental in the design of the larger site.
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This is a substantial addition to what we already knew from a study of our artifacts made by another scientist a couple of years ago. The following is a direct quote: