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Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana. Evidence of the Poverty Point culture extends throughout much of the Southeastern Woodlands of the Southern United States.
Aerial view of the Poverty Point earthworks, built by the prehistoric Poverty Point culture, located in present-day Louisiana.. The Poverty Point culture is the archaeological culture of a prehistoric indigenous peoples who inhabited a portion of North America's lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 1730 – 1350 BC.
Poverty Point National Monument is located in Pioneer, LA about 95 miles, or just over an hour and a half, away from Jackson. Visitors of Poverty Point can explore the remnants of an ancient ...
Poverty Point National Monument is listed as a National Park Service area although title for the site has not been transferred from Louisiana to the federal government. Otherwise, excepting the El Camino Real de los Tejas trail, these are federally owned sites and enjoy greater protection than most National Historic Landmarks.
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A Junior Park Ranger badge that was awarded by the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument.. The Junior Ranger Program, in brief, is a program where kids (and adults) can learn about a park through self guided interactive activities, such as scavenger hunts, crosswords, and even poetry writing.
Marsden Mounds is an archaeological site with components from the Poverty Point culture (1500 BCE) and the Troyville-Coles Creek period (400 to 1200 CE). It is located in Richland Parish, Louisiana, near Delhi. [2] It was added to the NRHP on August 4, 2004, as NRIS number 04000803. [3]
The Poverty Point culture (3rd millennium BCE−1st millennium BCE) — a Mound builders culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley, during the Archaic period in North America. Archeological sites are located in the present day the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi .