📜 Historical
Poverty Point National Monument
📍 Pioneer, Louisiana
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Poverty Point in northern Louisiana is the largest known earthwork complex in North America — six concentric earthen ridges half a mile in diameter, built between 1700 and 1100 BCE by a sophisticated hunter-gatherer society. These people built a city without agriculture, a fact that overturned archaeologists' assumptions about what complexity requires. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.