Poverty Point: A Culture of the Lower Mississippi Valley

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Jon L. Gibson

Editor's Note

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

POVERTY POINT CULTURE: A DEFINITION

SETTLEMENT

FOODS

EVERYDAY TOOLS

SYMBOLIC OBJECTS AND CEREMONIES

SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT

A FINAL APPRAISAL

REFERENCES CITED

Transcriber's Notes

Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission
Anthropological Study No. 7

POVERTY POINT

Bird design from Poverty Point stone art.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

STATE OF LOUISIANA

Edwin W. Edwards
Governor

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, RECREATION AND TOURISM

Noelle LeBlanc
Secretary

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND ANTIQUITIES COMMISSION

Ex-Officio Members

Dr. Kathleen Byrd State Archaeologist
Mr. Robert B. DeBlieux Assistant Secretary, Office of Cultural Development
Mr. B. Jim Porter Secretary, Department of Natural Resources
Mrs. Dorothy M. Taylor Secretary, Department of Urban and Community Affairs

Appointed Members

Mrs. Mary L. Christovich
Mr. Brian J. Duhe
Mr. Marc Dupuy, Jr.
Dr. Lorraine Heartfield
Dr. J. Richard Shenkel
Mrs. Lanier Simmons
Dr. Clarence H. Webb

First Printing April 1983
Second Printing, with corrections September 1985

The second printing of this document was funded by the Louisiana Research Foundation and the U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund. This document was published by Bourque Printing, Inc., P. O. Box 45070, Baton Rouge, LA 70895-4070.

POVERTY POINT:
A Culture of the Lower Mississippi Valley

Jon L. Gibson

To Carl Alexander,
with gratitude

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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