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has gloss | eng: Crooks Mound is a large Marksville culture mound site, located in La Salle Parish in south central Louisiana. It is a large, conical, burial mound that was part of at least six episodes of burials. It measure about 16ft high and 85ft wide. It contains roughly 1150 remains that were placed however they were able to fit. Sometimes body parts were removed in order to achieve that goal. Some believe that this was a holding house for this area that was emptied periodically in order to achieve this type of set up. |
lexicalization | eng: Crooks mound |
instance of | (noun) (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" people |
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geo loc | geographic location 31.52449 -92.01728 |
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