Poverty Point World Heritage Site, 6859 La. 577, Pioneer, outside of Epps, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $4 per person and free for seniors age 62 and older and children age 3 and ...

Poverty Point was abandoned for unknown reasons around 1100 B.C., but a later Native American community built on top of it about A.D. 700.

Remains discovered near Louisiana lake date back 3,500 years, likely belonging to Poverty Point Culture by: Kylee Bond. Posted: Apr 27, 2023 / 01:43 PM CDT. Updated: Apr 27, 2023 / 06:38 PM CDT.

Poverty Point, a prehistoric earthwork built over 3,000 years ago, continues to puzzle scientists. ... The builders, known as the Poverty Point culture, lived in the lower Mississippi Valley.

LA VIDA by Oscar Lewis. 669 pages. Random House. $10.At 40, Fernanda Fuentes Ríos, a Puerto Rican American of Negro blood, has had six husbands. Junior, her sixth, is 19. Fernandá's ...

Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana, site of one of history’s great mysteries, is a bit off the beaten track. But more than 3,000 years ago it was a happening place, ...

Today, Poverty Point National Monument is open for visitors daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, with exception for certain holidays.

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 ...

On November 17, at 6 p.m., Poverty Point State Historic Site will host a nature base night hike. The program will consist of discussing the various animal furs in the ...

Tristram R. Kidder, of Washington University in St. Louis, will present "Poverty Point as a Radical, Cosmological Ritual Intervention." Abstract: Drawing almost exclusively from Western concepts of ...

Nearly 40 years after fragments of a human skull were found along the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, officials have determined the remains date back to prehistoric times.