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Overview
| Designation | UNESCO World Heritage (cultural, 2014) |
| Name | Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point |
| Country | United States of America |
| Nearby cities | Dallas, Houston, New Orleans |
| Nearby sites | Hot Springs National Park |
| Latitude, longitude | 32.64, -91.41 Google Maps |
| Themes | Prehistory, Culture, Archaeological sites |
About
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014 as a cultural site.
Why it was inscribed
A unique testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.
Poverty Point, in north-east Louisiana, sits on a ridge in the lower Mississippi valley and is named after a 19th-century plantation nearby. It consists of five mounds, six concentric semi-elliptical ridges and a central plaza, built about 3,700 to 3,100 years ago by hunter-fisher-gatherers for living and ceremonies, one of the earliest and largest earthwork complexes of its kind in North America.
Photo credits: Mound A at Poverty Point, Louisiana, USA: Kniemla (CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)