It is the 22nd UNESCO site in the U.S. Other domestic sites include the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon, while international sites include Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids and the Roman Coliseum.
Poverty Point, a Louisiana Office of State Parks property named for a plantation that occupied the site in the antebellum period, is an ancient American Indian earthworks site that was created about 3,400 years ago. The network of six mounds, six concentric semi-elliptical ridges and a central plaza were used for residential and ceremonial purposes, and the landscape was the largest and the most elaborate of its time in North America.
In addition, recovered artifacts displayed at the on-site museum, such as projectile points and other stone tools made from raw materials that originated as far east as the Appalachian foothills of what is now Alabama and Georgia and as far north as the Tennessee and Ohio river valleys, indicate Poverty Point's hunter-gatherer residents were part of an extensive American Indian trading network.
Already designated a Smithsonian Affiliate and a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of Interior, Poverty Point is located near Epps about 50 miles east of Monroe. Visit www.PovertyPoint.us and LaStateParks.com for more information.
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