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Ancient Sites in Louisiana
Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana is among the most disorienting ancient sites in North America — massive earthworks built around 1700-1100 BCE by a hunter-gatherer society. That scale of organized construction is usually associated with agricultural civilizations. But the people who built six concentric C-shaped residential ridges and a mound 72 feet tall were nomadic. Mound A is the second-largest mound in North America by volume. It was built before the pyramids of Egypt were finished, before the Mycenaean Greeks, before almost anything we think of as ancient civilization. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Poverty Point World Heritage Site
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeastern Louisiana preserving a massive earthwork complex built around 1700-1100 BCE by a hunter-gatherer society — extraordinary because this scale of construction is usually associated with agricultural civilizations. Six concentric C-shaped ridges (where people lived) and several large mounds spread across a bluff above the Macon Bayou. Poverty Point Mound A is 72 feet tall and the second-largest mound in North America by volume. Open daily 9am-5pm. National Monument and state park. Near Epps, West Carroll Parish, about 35 miles from Monroe, LA.
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