In the Late Archaic period, a massive earthwork of unprecedented scale was constructed in Northeast Louisiana. Tied to the movements of the sun and connected to monuments 1500 years older, no other monumental structure would compare to it for two thousand years.

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Further Reading:

Tristram R. Kidder, 2012
Poverty Point. In The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology,
edited by Timothy R. Pauketat

Kenneth Sassaman, 2010
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized. AltaMira Press, New York.

William F. Romain, and Norman L. Davis, 2011
Astronomy and Geometry at Poverty Point. Louisiana Archaeology 38

Mark A. Hill, Diana M. Greenlee, and Hector Neff, 2016
Assessing the provenance of Poverty Point copper through LAICPMS
compositional analysis.

Onsite photos by Aubrey Roemer.

Poverty Point World Heritage website:
https://www.povertypoint.us/