Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeast Louisiana. “Conservatively, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poverty Point is the earliest city in North America the largest for centuries. What made such an impressive city possible at ...

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 ...