Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of PSP Rewind Commercial

Free Versions of Past Episodes podcast blasts from the past. I put these up when I can't

do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations. These podcasts will appear

in standard iTunes Stitcher and other feeds, but will be titled PSP Rewind Episodes and

numbered accordingly.

And today we are rewinding back to November 26, 2019, right about three years ago. Today's

episode was originally episode 2917, sustainable civilization lessons from Poverty Point, Louisiana.

Now Poverty Point is what the place is called. It wasn't that one. It was this sustainable

civilization that was part of ancient America. It was built about 3500 years ago and was

at its peak about 3,000 years ago, about 900 acres in size and supported between 4,000 and

5,000 inhabitants. That's all I'll say about that for now because we'll cover all this

as we go through the episode today. But this was part of a journey I took. I took a course

from a place called The Great Courses by a really cool college professor on ancient

North American civilization. And of all the lessons, the one that covered this was the most

fascinating to me for a variety of reasons that we'll get into as we drop into the Rewind.

But I'll be honest with you, choosing this one as the final one for the Rewind series

was kind of self-interest. If you haven't seen it yet, we did livestream all the present

annotations and one of the presentations that was given at the workshop this time was

by me and it was about the diet of early Americans. And there's something to get said in that

presentation multiple times and it is and then something terrible happened. And there's

times we're pretty sure what the terrible thing is. And there's times that we really don't

know. And there's times where it seems terrible, is it terrible? We don't know. We just know

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