Poverty Point

Mississippian · United States

Field notes

civilizations

Mississippian

types

Tumulus · Geoglyph

occupied

1,700 BCE — 1,100 BCE

country

United States

The site

Poverty Point is a prehistoric earthwork complex in the United States, built by mound-building peoples between roughly 1700 and 1100 BCE. Its concentric ridges and monumental earthen mounds form vast geometric shapes across the landscape. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it stands as one of North America's most striking early feats of large-scale earthen construction.

Nearby sites

~356 km

Moundville Archaeological Site

~635 km

Etowah Indian Mounds

~680 km

Cahokia

~1,010 km

Serpent Mound