Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America
The Ancients
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The Poverty Points
Tristan: Do we think this is almost a place for feasting or the center of communities gathering? Some archaeologists feel that the site may be exclusively, you know, ceremonial or exclusively community created by local people. But I think these ideas are not mutually exclusive based on the evidence that that I've seen right now. So there was a year-round community. It was a place for exchange of goods and information. And it was a massive ceremonial site.
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