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A dozen miles southeast of Little Rock, two large mounds rise from the flat Arkansas River floodplain. These structures—one almost 50 feet high and the other standing 39 feet—once marked the main religious and political center of an Indigenous group archaeologists call the Plum Bayou culture. From about a.d. 650 to 1050, these people