Poverty Point

Louisiana · United States of America

Poverty Point, United States of America
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Concentric earthen ridges and mounds built by a hunter-gatherer society more than three thousand years ago. The scale of the earthworks, raised without draft animals or the wheel, marks it as a major prehistoric engineering feat.

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