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.

The builders, known as the Poverty Point culture, lived in the lower Mississippi Valley. They were hunter-fisher-gatherers, not farmers, which makes the site's complexity extraordinary.

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 ...

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

Poverty Point World Heritage Site manager Mark Brink says that the site is clearly enough a ceremonial space, but having been abandoned around 1100 B.C., no one knows much more than that.

Poverty Point State Historic Site offer visitors the opportunity to study the culture of area inhabitants from 1600 to 1100 B.C. The $4 admission fee provides access to the area museum, video and ...

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 ...

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 ...