Poverty Point, Louisiana: the monumental earthwork of American hunter-gatherers
3,700 years ago, Louisiana hunter-gatherers erected a complex of earthen semi-ridges covering two square kilometres. Poverty Point, a UNESC…
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3,700 years ago, Louisiana hunter-gatherers erected a complex of earthen semi-ridges covering two square kilometres. Poverty Point, a UNESC…
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