Archaeological culture · c. 1700–1100 BCE
Poverty Point culture
Late Archaic hunter-fisher-gatherers of the lower Mississippi Valley who built the great earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana. Their settlements stretched more than 100 miles across the Mississippi Delta and south toward the Gulf Coast.
They traded for stone over long distances, including soapstone vessels from the Appalachian foothills, and showed that monuments did not need farming.
See Poverty Point culture on the map in 1700 BCE
- On the map
- 1700–1100 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; known from earthworks, stone tools and imported stone, dated by radiocarbon.
Sites
- Poverty Point c. 1700–1100 BCE