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Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America

The Ancients

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The Exotic Artifacts of Poverty Point

Poverty point screams similarities with a place like the Nesse Brodga in Orkney, which is also potentially seen as this pilgrimage site. They're bringing all kinds of different flints and shirts like Novaculite from Central Arkansas. Most of these being projectile points as far as styles of different things. So there's, I believe, 16 different styles of projectile points that have been found associated with this culture on site.

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