In Northeastern Louisiana at a site located near the upper right-hand corner of the state

is an arrangement of prehistoric earthen structures created by humans nearly 3,000 years ago.

The site is comprised of six long mounds, intricately aligned in

concentric arks. The design is strange, haunting even, clearly constructed with some greater purpose.

But what boggles the mind is the sheer work required to make them.

These mounds and others elsewhere on the premises would have required hauling loads of heavy soil and rock.

Of course, trucks had no part of this.

This was pure human labor, as were the pyramids of Giza, the Mayan temples, Stonehenge.

But this is Poverty Point, right here in Louisiana,

and it raises all the same mysterious questions

as those other human endeavors. The how, the who, the why any human society

would go to such great lengths to build anything of such scope and ambition.

What was the reason? scope and

ambition. what was the reason? .

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– Hello everybody it's Don Wildman and welcome to another episode of American history

hit in Northeastern Louisiana near what is today West Carroll Parish is evidence

of a Native American settlement dating to a period

thousands of years ago. The expansive and specific nature of the place, its

intricate layout, its remarkable design,

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