Les noms des biens figurent dans la langue dans laquelle les
Etats parties les ont soumis. Between 1700 BCE and 1100 BCE, an
integrated architectural complex consisting of three or four
earthen mounds, a series of six vast concentric semi-elliptical
earthen ridges (ranging in diameter from 600 to 1200 meters), a
large flat plaza defined by the innermost ridge (14 hectares or
35 acres in size), and several borrow areas, was constructed at
this site on a bayou (a marshy tributary) not far from the west
bank of the Mississippi River. The ridges are believed to have
served as living areas. Three mounds, one of which is the second
largest earthen structure in North America, are outside the
ridged enclosure; two are inside it. The vast earthen
architecture of this site was constructed by a foraging society
of hunter- gatherers, not a settled agricultural people, which
makes it all the more remarkable a site. It is still not
understood how and why such a society could so totally transform
this landscape. It may well