WEST CARROLL PARISH — U.S. National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis didn't hesitate when asked about the significance of Poverty Point's inclusion as a World Heritage Site. "This changes ...

Nestled in the northeast corner of Louisiana, the Poverty Point site stretches across nearly 900 acres. The heart of the city lies atop a natural bluff overlooking the Mississippi floodplain—a ...

Located in West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, sits a prehistoric earthwork known as Poverty Point. The earthworks of Poverty Point consist of six C-shaped ridges that extend to the ...

Tell us a little about yourself. I have been the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s station archaeologist at the Poverty Point site since 2006. I work with Office of State Parks staff to ...

"While all of this was going on, the mounds were being built at Poverty Point," said Mark E. Brink Jr. The name of Louisiana's ancient site once was part of an ancient culture, then later ...

DELHI, La. (AP) - A United Nations agency has named Poverty Point State Historic Site in West Carroll Parish as a World Heritage site. The U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...

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the earthen works at Poverty Point, La., have been described as one of the world's greatest feats of construction by an archaic civilization of hunters and gatherers. Now, new research in the ...

Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Poverty Point, qui doit son nom à une plantation du XIX e siècle proche du site, est situé dans la vallée inférieure du Mississippi, sur un ...

The remains of earthen mounds built by the mysterious civilization still rise as much as 66 feet above the ground at Poverty Point, Louisiana. The new study, published in the journal Southeastern ...