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The foundation Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dates to 1719, at the site of a ''bâton rouge'' or "red pole" Muscogee boundary marker. It became the state capital of Louisiana in 1849. ==Prehistory== Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism )〕 Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC.〔(Rebecca Saunders, "The Case for Archaic Period Mounds in Southeastern Louisiana" ), ''Southeastern Archaeology'', Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 1994, accessed November 4, 2011〕 Proto-Muskogean divided into its daughter languages by about 1000 BC; a cultural boundary between either side of Mobile Bay and the Black Warrior River begins to appear between about 1200 BC and 500 BC, the Middle "Gulf Formational Stage". Eastern Muskogean began to diversify internally in the first half of the 1st millennium AD.〔 Nicholas A. Hopkins, (The Native Languages of the Southeastern United States ) (2007), with older literature.〕 The early Muskogean nations were the bearers of the Mississippian culture which formed around AD 800. By the time the Spanish made their first forays inland from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the early 16th century, many political centers of the Mississippians were already in decline, or abandoned, the region at the time presenting as a collection of moderately-sized native chiefdoms interspersed with autonomous villages and tribal groups.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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