Weather: Showers - 59/72F
Route: 221 mi SSW mostly on Highway 61
Significance: It is the most extensive monumental earthworks built by hunter-gatherers in North America that still exists. No earthworks would eclipse it for 2000 years, and then they were built by farming societies.
Further Reading:
Ellerbe, Jenny & Greenlee, Diana. Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City
Websites:
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Louisiana State Parks Site
Poverty Point website by State of Louisiana Office of Tourism
Videos:
Produced by Louisiana Travel with visuals of the site
Anthropologist T.R. Kidder discussing why Poverty Point is such an important site
Photo:
Artist rendering from Louisiana Public Broadcasting site
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