Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America
The Ancients
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The Poverty Point of All Names
There is a 43 acres central plaza in the very middle of the site and it was constructed earthwork. Outside of that plaza are six semi elliptical ridges that were constructed between four and six or seven feet high. The outer diameter of these ridges is three quarters of a mile or almost exactly one kilometer. There's also another mound on the site, which is mound D, constructed by a later culture about 1800 years after the poverty point culture had vanished by 1100 BCE.
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