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Most archaeological excavations of the ridges at Poverty Point consist of small 3.3 ft × 3.3 ft (1 m × 1 m) units that cannot reveal the extent of an entire household. An exception is the 1980–1982 Louisiana State University excavations that explored a 16 ft × 98 ft (4.9 m × 29.9 m) trench placed on the Northwest Ridge 1. The trench ...
The largest and best-known site is at Poverty Point, located on the Macon Ridge near present-day Epps, Louisiana. The culture is named for the archeological site, which is in turn named after a 19th century cotton plantation built in the area. [3] The Poverty Point culture may have hit its peak around 1500 BC.
Poverty Point World Heritage Site is an ancient earthwork made of mounds and ridges located in West Carroll Parish.
Poverty Point, built about 1500 BCE in what is now Louisiana, is a prominent example of Late Archaic mound-builder construction (around 2500 BCE – 1000 BCE). It is a striking complex of more than 1 square mile (2.6 km 2 ), where six earthwork crescent ridges were built in concentric arrangement, interrupted by radial aisles.
The vast earthen complex at Poverty Point was constructed between 1700 and 1100 BCE, during the Late Archaic Period. It was created by a foraging society of fishermen-hunter-gatherers, instead of a settled agricultural society. The complex consists of semi-elliptical ridges with a central plaza, and several mounds.
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 earthworks at Poverty Point occupy one of the largest-area sites in North America, as they cover some 920 acres (320 ha) of land in Louisiana. [24] Military earthworks can result in subsequent archaeological earthworks. Examples include Roman marching forts which can leave small earthworks.
Boundaries: Poverty Ridge’s limits are on the north by R Street, on the east between 24th and 25th streets, on the south by the Capital City Freeway and on the west between 18th and 19th streets.