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A 5 page paper exploring the societal importance of this massive series of prehistoric earthworks which overlook the Mississippi River swamplands in northeastern Louisiana. The author of this paper explores the construction techniques employed at the site and the problems which are encountered when archaeologists try to interpret its meaning. This paper contends that manner in which the earthworks at Poverty Point were constructed stands in testament to its tremendous importance to the people that built the site and the diverse material culture of the site indicates it was associated with a tremendous trade network. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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when archaeologists try to interpret its meaning. This paper contends that manner in which the earthworks at Poverty Point were constructed stands in testament to its tremendous importance to
the people that built the site and the diverse material culture of the site indicates it was associated with a tremendous trade network. Bibliography lists 3 sources. PPnaMnd2.rtf
An Archaeological Investigation into Poverty Point: Native American Earthworks by - 10 Nov 2001 --
properly! The archaeological site known as Poverty Point,
a massive series of Native American earthworks overlooking the Mississippi River swamplands in northeastern Louisiana, is believed to have been constructed between the fourteenth and eighteenth century B.C. (Gibson, 1996).
The age and the size of the site indicate that it was in the forefront of an emerging complex society. The site is thought to have been of
tremendous commercial and governmental importance to those people who constructed it and, indeed, to the surrounding geographic area (Gibson, 1996). The extent of this importance can in part be
gauged by the incredible material diversity which is present at the site, a diversity which documents an extensive trade network with those people who lived to the north in the
Ouachita and Ozark Mountains and in the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys, in Alabama and Georgia, and even more distant locations in the geographic reason which is now referred to
as the eastern United States (Gibson, 1996). The manner in which the earthworks at Poverty Point were constructed stands in testament as well to its tremendous importance to the
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