Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeast Louisiana. “Conservatively, they ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — In Louisiana sits one the United States oldest indigenous cultural and historical sites, but years on from its discovery scientists still debate what it was used for. Located in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a vast, temporary gathering of egalitarian communities seeking spiritual harmony ...

When Poverty Point was purchased by the state of Louisiana in 1972, it was through the assistance and encouragement of local community leaders. Although archaeologists have been working at Poverty ...

Catherine S. Comeaux and her family spent three summers exploring state, national and provincial parks — from Louisiana to Alaska then Nova Scotia and along the Mississippi River in between. This year ...

EPPS, La. (AP) — A new nonprofit organization has been formed to support the scientific and educational aspects of the Poverty Point State Historic Site. Gary Stringer, president of the nonprofit and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It’s long been known that Poverty Point served as a kind of trading hub for ancient hunter-gatherers spread throughout southeastern and midwestern ...

When it comes to experts on the ancient cultures that once inhabited Louisiana, Diana Greenlee vies for the top of the list. She is the University of Monroe's station archaeologist at the Poverty ...