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Poverty Point National Monument and World Heritage Site – Louisiana

Images of Poverty Point National Monument and World Heritage Site – Northeastern Louisiana, taken in October 2022.

Poverty Point National Monument and World Heritage Site protects the largest earthen mounds north of Mexico. Construction of these mounds began sometime around 1400 B.C. and the area was populated by at least a few hundred people and possibly as many as a few thousand. This hunter-gatherer society abandoned the area at around 1100 B.C. for mysterious reasons. It is not known who the American Indians were that built these mounds or what they were called but the name Poverty Point refers to a plantation which was established around 1850.
World Heritage Site designation on the park signage in Poverty Point NM
World Heritage Site designation on the park signage in Poverty Point NM 		Map of mounds, ridges and plaza in Poverty Point NM
Map of mounds, ridges and plaza in Poverty Point NM		 Decorated artifacts found in Poverty Point NM
Decorated artifacts found in Poverty Point NM		 Weights, polished stones used by the ancient inhabitants in Poverty Point NM
Weights, polished stones used by the ancient inhabitants in Poverty Point NM		 Figurines found in Poverty Point NM
Figurines found in Poverty Point NM
Mound A, one of the biggest aboriginal earthworks in North America, built after 1400 B.C. in Poverty Point NM
Mound A, one of the biggest aboriginal earthworks in North America, built after 1400 B.C. in Poverty Point NM		 Looking up the ramp to the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM
Looking up the ramp to the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM		 View down the Mound A ramp in Poverty Point NM
View down the Mound A ramp in Poverty Point NM		 Mound E as seen from the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM
Mound E as seen from the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM		 Closeup of Mound E as seen from the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM
Closeup of Mound E as seen from the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM
Wildflowers in Poverty Point NM
Wildflowers in Poverty Point NM		 Looking up the ramp to the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM
Looking up the ramp to the top of Mound A in Poverty Point NM		 Mound A, one of the biggest aboriginal earthworks in North America, in Poverty Point NM
Mound A, one of the biggest aboriginal earthworks in North America, in Poverty Point NM		 Distant view of Mound A in Poverty Point NM
Distant view of Mound A in Poverty Point NM		 Goldenrod growing in Poverty Point NM
Goldenrod growing in Poverty Point NM
Mound B, the oldest mound in Poverty Point NM
Mound B, the oldest mound in Poverty Point NM		 View of Mound B where construction began about 1600 B.C. in Poverty Point NM
View of Mound B where construction began about 1600 B.C. in Poverty Point NM		 Markers in postholes on the plaza in Poverty Point NM
Markers in postholes on the plaza in Poverty Point NM		 Mound C next to Bayou Macon in Poverty Point NM
Mound C next to Bayou Macon in Poverty Point NM		 Early Euroamerican graves (1851) on Mound D in Poverty Point NM
Early Euroamerican graves (1851) on Mound D in Poverty Point NM

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