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Poverty Point, recently inscribed onto the UNESCO World Heritage List, is a monumental earthworks site built ca. 3700-3100 BP by hunter-fisher-gatherers. Until very recently, the original Late Archaic configuration was believed to include four mounds; six concentric, semi-elliptical, earthen ridges; and a large interior plaza. A fifth mound was added about 1800 years later. In August 2013, a small, suspicious rise in the woods on the northeast edge of the Poverty Point monumental core was...
New Evidence for Poverty Point’s Complex Developmental History (2018)
Magnetic survey at Poverty Point reveals new information about ritual facilities, ridge construction and use, and a complex developmental history that included both planned and organic growth. Thirty-eight circles (diameters range from 8 to 66 m with a mean of 35 m) in the plaza are interpreted as ritual facilities. Targeted excavation in four circles encountered large postholes in three but the fourth consists of pits. Magnetic images suggest closely spaced postholes in many circles, possibly...
Prepared Floors on Mound A Revealed through Near-Surface Geophysics (2018)
Mound A is the largest earthen construction at Poverty Point and the second largest mound in North America. Limited excavations on the mound have documented the construction history of the deposit, but have failed to find evidence of how the mound was used. Recent geophysical surveys (including resistivity, ground penetrating radar, and magnetometry) reveal specialized use areas – including prepared floors that we interpret as dance and presentation platforms. The discovery of these platforms...
A Tale of Two Sites: the Connections Between Poverty Point and Tick Island (2015)
Poverty Point and Tick Island were two of the most important sites in the southeast during the Late Archaic period. Previously we have demonstrated a probable connection between the sites, which are separated by over 700 miles, through the identification of Lower Mississippi Valley loessal PPOs at Tick Island, and St Johns pottery, likely from the area of Tick Island, found at Poverty Point. In this paper we identify an additional set of artifacts that are found at both sites but are not know...