Poverty Point: Centre of Ancient America
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
An ancient, colossal site in Northeastern Louisiana, Poverty Point is a mystery amongst archaeologist and anthropologists a like. Dating back nearly 4 millennia, Poverty Point is renowned for it's massive earthworks, with gigantic concentric circles, complex mounds, and towering ridges - it's a site to behold. But who exactly built Poverty Point, and more importantly - why?
In this episode Tristan welcomes Poverty Point's Park Manager, Mark Brink, to the podcast to help decipher some of the mystery surrounding this Prehistoric site. Looking at the incredible earthworks, examining the recent archaeology, and delving in Prehistoric American society - what do we actually know about Poverty Point?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, this is Scott. |
| 0:03.4 | If you love learning about Greece and Rome, but are also interested in all the ancient civilizations |
| 0:09.2 | that came before them, then check out the Ancient World Podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | You'll learn about the Sumerians and Acadians, the Babylonians and Assyrians, the Hittites |
| 0:20.3 | and Ancient Egypt, the Minotans, the Elamites, and much, much more, including the infamous |
| 0:27.2 | Bronze Age Collapse. |
| 0:29.9 | And that's just the first series. |
| 0:32.8 | In later series, you'll learn how all these civilizations were rediscovered, follow the |
| 0:38.0 | story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra's descendants over ten generations, and take a deep dive |
| 0:44.3 | into the Iron Age and the Hellenistic Era. |
| 0:47.7 | That's the Ancient World Podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | Available on all podcasting platforms, or go to AncientWorldPodcast.com. |
| 0:59.9 | It's the Entrance on History Hit. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and in today's episode where we're going back to prehistoric |
| 1:15.5 | North America. |
| 1:17.2 | We're going to Louisiana, to the Mississippi River, and a site that is some 3500 years old. |
| 1:25.0 | It's called Poverty Point, and truly it is one of the jewels of Ancient America. |
| 1:30.8 | It's Plaza, it's several urban ridges, it's great monumental prehistoric mountains that |
| 1:36.6 | were created several thousand years ago. |
| 1:40.7 | It seems to be in this important center of prehistoric America with people venturing |
| 1:45.6 | here from very far away. |
| 1:49.0 | Now that being said, there is still so much about Poverty Point that remains shrouded in |
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