Representatives from UNESCO will make site visits this summer to Poverty Point, an archeological site in northeast Louisiana where mammoth earthen mounds were erected some 3,000 years ago. Poverty ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — In Louisiana sits one the United States oldest indigenous cultural and historical sites, but years on from its discovery scientists still debate what it was used for. Located in ...

Polished stone tools, such as these plummets, used as weights for fishing nets, were made circa 1500 B.C. at Poverty Point. For summer vacation two years ago, Jackie and I determined to travel to ...

When Poverty Point was purchased by the state of Louisiana in 1972, it was through the assistance and encouragement of local community leaders. Although archaeologists have been working at Poverty ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a vast, temporary gathering of egalitarian communities seeking spiritual harmony ...

Although Louisiana is famous for its Mardi Gras celebrations and food destinations — like Gonzales, a city called the Jambalaya Capital of the World — the state's multi-layered cultural heritage dates ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E ...

Analysis on four Poverty Point objects found that three were made from the same soil as is found about 18 feet below the surface of Poverty Point, Hormes said. The fourth object had a different ...

Pre Poverty Point -- Paleoindians -- Lower Jackson Mound -- The City of Poverty Point -- Mound B -- Mound E -- The slough -- The plaza and ridges -- Circles -- Mound A -- Mound C -- Mound F -- The ...

When it comes to experts on the ancient cultures that once inhabited Louisiana, Diana Greenlee vies for the top of the list. She is the University of Monroe's station archaeologist at the Poverty ...