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Archaeologists have been investigating the ruins of Poverty Point for decades, piecing together a fascinating picture of a 3, 500-year-old hunter-gatherer way of life. But Poverty Point is more than an archaeological treasure-trove. It's also an eerie locus for southeastern native lore. Cold breezes on warm nights stir up spirit foxes and singing locusts. Otherworldly messages find their conduit in the drumming of trees and hooting of owls. Ar...

Archaeologists have been investigating the ruins of Poverty Point for decades, piecing together a fascinating picture of a 3, 500-year old hunter-gatherer way of life. But Poverty Point is more than an archaeological treasure-trove. It's also an eerie locus for southeastern native lore ..."--Back cover

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This book is a genre all its own. Renowned archaeologist and raconteur, Jon Gibson, blends travel adventure, science mystery, autobiography, history of science, and fantasy in a pleasurable narration of the discoveries in America's oldest mounds. Gibson recounts the first World Trade Center-like disaster of the Americas over 3000 years ago, as well as the construction and exaltation of giant pyramids at Poverty Point, revealing a social and em...

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Ten scholars whose specialties range from ethnohistory to remote sensing and lithic analysis to bioarchaeology chronicle changes in the way prehistory in the Southeast has been studied since the 19th century. Each brings to the task the particular perspective of his or her own subdiscipline in this multifaceted overview of the history of archaeology in a region that has had an important but variable role in the overall development of North Ame...

By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization among Archaic societies.

A coming-of-age story set in the isolated, murky swamps of Louisiana.

Jon Gibson confronts the intriguing mystery of Poverty Point, the ruins of a large prehistoric Indian settlement that was home to one of the most fascinating ancient cultures in eastern North America. The 3, 500-year-old site in northeastern Louisiana is known for its large, elaborate earthworks -- a series of concentric, crescent-shaped dirt rings and bird-shaped mounds. This is the first full-scale political, economic, and organizational ana...