Despite knowing all this, though, no one exactly knows what the site was used for, or why it was eventually abandoned. The site was created over the course of 600 years (from about 1650 to 700 BCE), taking more than five million hours of labor to build. Built by the Poverty Point Culture, it’s filled with mounds and concentric rings made of earth that take up some 900 acres, and millions of artifacts have been found onsite. More than 3,000 years old, Poverty Point is a mysterious site found in northeastern Louisiana. Settlements were governed by priest-rulers, and are famous for their enormous public works-mounds that dominate the landscape today Poverty Point, Louisiana There were smaller extensions up into Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well into the Great Plains. It comprised of a huge network of Native Americans, spread across what are now Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The Mississippian culture was the last major prehistorical cultural development in North America. You can visit the mounds and the recently-renovated museum, which houses many of the site’s artifacts. The village was surrounded by a bastioned wooden palisade, which contained 26 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. It currently spread across 185 acres, but used to be a village that occupied 300 acres on a bluff overlooking the Black Warrior River. Occupied around 1000-1450 CE, Moundville Archaeological Park is believed to be the regional political and ceremonial center of the Mississippian culture. Los Alamos, NM: The Gateway to 3 National Parks Today, there are around 75,000 descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans, spread now between the modern Pueblo tribes, including the Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, and Laguna. Spanning some 1,500 years, their history is long and varied around 750 CE, the construction of large buildings like those at Chaco Canyon began, and around 1150, they began to create cliff dwellings. Who were the Ancestral Puebloans?Īround 100 CE, the Ancestral Puebloans (also known as the Anasazi, a Navajo word that has been translated as “the ancient enemy”) civilization developed in the Four Corners region of the U.S. And many of them are enormous, both in length and underground and aboveground structures. Some of the buildings’ walls aligned with cardinal points, while other aligned with the 18.6-year lunar cycle. Want to see the one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the U.S.? Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancestral Puebloans, and their complexes were built along a 9-mile stretch of canyon floor. So before you spend thousands of dollars to see sites abroad, why not see these sites at home? America’s history started long before 1776, and it’s calling your name. The 10 Best Cities for Historical Preservation Some are enormous, or incredibly complex, or incredibly old-and all are well-worth a visit. itself, because spread across this country are great numbers of ancient archeological sites. When you think of ancient sites, where does your mind go first? Chichén Itzá in Mexico? The Parthenon in Greece? The Nazca Lines in Peru? Well, you should think no further than the U.S. New Mexico / Courtesy of mksfca under a CC 4.0 license.
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