Mound A at Poverty Point World Heritage Site is the largest mound at the site. Located just west of the enclosure of ridges, mound A, which stands more than 70-feet high and measures 640-feet along ...

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 ...

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 ...

By some miracle of estimation, archaeologists claim that 23,000 people lived at Poverty Point in 1300 B.C. during the height of its culture, the same period that King Tutankhamun ruled Egypt. They ...

Here's something to think about: When King Tut and Queen Nefertiti each ruled over Egypt, a culture thrived among a series of mounds in a region that would become known as Louisiana. Now ponder this: ...