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    Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the...
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    The Poverty Point culture is the archaeological culture of a prehistoric indigenous peoples who inhabited a portion of North America's lower Mississippi...
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    Poverty is a state or condition in which one lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living. Poverty can have diverse environmental...
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    cooking balls. "Poverty point objects," earthenware, believed to be for cooking, Poverty Point Clay female figurines, Poverty Point Carved shell gorgets...
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    In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. In 2020, there were 37.2 million people in poverty. Some of the many causes include...
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    The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line...
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    found at Poverty Point in 2009 by archaeologists from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Mississippi State University, led by Poverty Point station...
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  • In economics, a cycle of poverty or poverty trap is when poverty seems to be inherited causing subsequent generations to not be able to escape it. It...
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    Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift...
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    projectile point Beaver Lake point Cascade point Cumberland point Eden point Golondrina point Goshen point Plainview point Plano point Simpson point Suwannee...
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    pre-ceramic, hunter-gatherer societies. They preceded the better known Poverty Point culture and its elaborate complex by nearly 2,000 years. The Mississippi...
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    point Clovis point Plano point Eden point Cumberland point Levanna projectile point Jack's Reef pentagonal projectile point Lamoka projectile point Susquehanna...
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    the oldest mound complex in the Americas. It precedes that built at Poverty Point by nearly 2,000 years (both are in northern Louisiana). More than 100...
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    Poverty in the United Kingdom is the condition experienced by the portion of the population of the United Kingdom that lacks adequate financial resources...
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    Poverty Point Reservoir State Park is a state park in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana located along a 2,700 acres (4.2 sq mi) man-made reservoir...
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    across. Watson Brake is dated to 1,900 years before the better-known Poverty Point in northern Louisiana; begun about 1500 BCE, it was previously thought...
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    station along the Thomson River to the north west, which was called Poverty Point. After many years of lobbying from business interests, the Victorian...
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    pattern of increasing regional generalization like the Southwest, Arctic, Poverty, Dalton, and Plano traditions. These regional adaptations would become...
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    Brake was being constructed nearly 2,000 years before the better-known Poverty Point, and the building continued for 500 years. Middle Archaic mound construction...
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    including the Poverty Point terminus site and the former tramway route were utilized during the twentieth century. The Poverty Point firebreak which...
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    Poverty porn, also known as pornography of poverty, development porn, famine porn, or stereotype porn, has been defined as "any type of media, be it written...
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  • the study of Caddoan culture, and at a number of major sites such as Poverty Point, John Pearce (just N. of U.S. Hwy 171, a short distance E. of the De...
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    The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union...
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    America. In South America, the similar related Fishtail or Fell projectile point style was contemporaneous to the usage of Clovis points in North America...
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    such complex construction. It is nearly 2,000 years older than the Poverty Point site. Construction of the mounds went on for 500 years until the site...
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    projectile point Barnes projectile point Cascade point Clovis point Cumberland point Eden point Elko point Folsom point Greene projectile point Jack's Reef...
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  • February 21, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2022. "Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on February...
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    Woodlands" begin to build massive earthworks, mounds of earth and stone. Poverty Point, Louisiana is the earliest one. c. 1300 BC – 1200 BC—Treasury of Atreus...
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  • Feminization of poverty refers to a trend of increasing inequality in living standards between men and women due to the widening gender gap in poverty. This phenomenon...
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    2020. As of 2009, Poverty Point is a public park owned and operated by the state of Louisiana. See Poverty Point#History "Poverty Point National Monument"...
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