Poverty Point National Monument | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-18

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Poverty Point National Monument


00:01:40 1 Site description
00:02:31 1.1 Six C-shaped ridges
00:03:29 1.2 Mound A
00:05:06 1.3 Mound B
00:06:18 1.4 Mound C
00:07:05 1.5 Mound D
00:07:40 1.6 Mound E
00:08:54 1.7 Lower Jackson and Motley mounds
00:10:03 2 History
00:10:12 2.1 Construction
00:12:59 2.2 Purposes
00:14:53 2.3 Poverty Point people
00:17:09 2.3.1 Artifacts
00:20:07 3 Discovery, excavation and tourism
00:20:17 3.1 Discovery and archaeological excavation
00:24:22 3.2 Public access &amp; Site Maintenance
00:26:35 3.3 UNESCO World Heritage Site designation
00:27:46 4 See also



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SUMMARY
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Poverty Point State Historic Site (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture.  The Poverty Point site is located in present-day northeastern Louisiana though evidence of the Poverty Point culture extends throughout much of the Southeastern United States.  The culture extended 100 miles (160 km) across the Mississippi Delta and south to the Gulf Coast.  The Poverty Point site has been designated as a U.S. National Monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Southern United States, the site is 15.5 miles (24.9 km) from the current flow of the Mississippi River, and situated on the edge of Maçon Ridge, near the village of Epps in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
The Poverty Point site is made of earthen ridges and mounds, built between 1700 and 1100 BC (3700 - 3100 BP) during the Late Archaic period in North America. Archaeologists have proposed a variety of possible functions for the site including as a settlement, a trading center, and/or a ceremonial religious complex.  Other writers have proposed pseudo-archaeological and New Age associations.
The 402-acre (163 ha) site has been described as "the largest and most complex Late Archaic earthwork occupation and ceremonial site yet found in North America". The site was discovered in the modern era in the early 20th century and has been the focus of professional excavations since the 1950s .  The Poverty Point earthworks are named after a nearby plantation.