Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America
The Ancients
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Mount A: A Pilgrimage Site for Ancient Cultures
It is extraordinary to think how important this site must have been for communities of these hunter-fisheric aetheras stretching from the Atlantic coast to Alabama, some 3500 years ago. This place was an important centre for tens of thousands of people living this long ago in prehistoric North America. It's true that it's not provable, but the size, complexity of the site, including all the exotic and foreign materials that arrived here over a span of 600 years, point to Mount A being the place to see and the place to be seen. That's a very popular idea with the archaeologists working on the site right now. But again, it's very hard to falsify. We
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