At Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana, an earthen mound still stands 66 feet above the flat delta ground more than 3,000 years after it was piled up, and researchers who have since studied its ...

Across Louisiana, long earthen ridges and conical hills rise from flat ground, some tucked behind campus buildings, others hidden in pine woods or framed by modern highways. Archaeologists now argue ...

Mound A at Poverty Point World Heritage Site is the largest mound at the site. Located just west of the enclosure of ridges, mound A, which stands more than 70-feet high and measures 640-feet along ...

Wendy Rodrigue Apr 7, 2011 Apr 7, 2011 3 min to read Poverty Point Mound A, also called the Bird Mound, 1300 B.C. Poverty Point as it looks today, aerial view 'Indians, Cajuns, and Cowboys' (detail), ...

Pre Poverty Point -- Paleoindians -- Lower Jackson Mound -- The City of Poverty Point -- Mound B -- Mound E -- The slough -- The plaza and ridges -- Circles -- Mound A -- Mound C -- Mound F -- The ...

The illustration above shows the core features of the Poverty Point site in northern Louisiana. The green to the right is the Mississippi River flood plain. The orange is Macon Ridge, the higher ...

Here's something to think about: When King Tut and Queen Nefertiti each ruled over Egypt, a culture thrived among a series of mounds in a region that would become known as Louisiana. Now ponder this: ...