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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...