of dirt that make up the mound, Kidder and his colleagues said. But hunter-gatherers likely did it with bushel baskets. "The Poverty Point mounds were built by people who had no access to ...

EPPS, LOUISIANA—Sediment tests have shown that archaeologist Diana Greenlee has discovered another mound in a remote, wooded area at Poverty Point. “I wasn’t sure it was a mound because ...

of dirt that make up the mound, Kidder and his colleagues said. But hunter-gatherers likely did it with bushel baskets. "The Poverty Point mounds were built by people who had no access to ...

The illustration above shows the core features of the Poverty Point site in northern Louisiana ... The pattern south of Mound E is the result of farm activity. Many of the low areas around ...

Based on more than a decade of excavations, core samplings and sophisticated sedimentary analysis, the study's key assertion is that Mound A at Poverty Point had to have been built in a very short ...

Enjoy a moonlit night exploration of the ancient mounds of Poverty Point State Historic Site Saturday ... Visitors will also have an opportunity to climb Mound A to star gaze and get a bird ...

AT POVERTY POINT, Louisiana, a remarkable monument overlooks ... out from a central “plaza”, together with five mounds. Mound A, the largest, towers 22 metres – the equivalent of a seven ...

Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana ... around 1100 B.C., no one knows much more than that. The largest mound and related earthworks, built by men and women carting baskets of earth on ...

The Poverty Point earthworks could be confused for an Ohio Hopewell site, except for two facts: It is located in Louisiana, and it’s more than 1,000 years older than any Hopewell mound.