*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Two decades ago, Weinstein et al. (2003:103) noted that “Poverty Point has been dug into, written about, and speculated about probably more often than any other site in Louisiana or the entire Lower Mississippi Valley.” Since then, fieldwork and collections research at the Poverty Point site and, more broadly, at culturally affiliated sites in the US Southeast have continued to enhance our understanding of the Poverty Point cultural phenomenon. These recent and ongoing investigations explore questions about the landscapes, subsistence, material culture, and chronology of the Poverty Point culture. The data reveal new levels of complexity that challenge archaeological models of site development and indigenous lifeways during the Late Archaic period.