The trade routes of the Great White Road which ran along the length of the entire Gulf Coast plus with all the inland waterway trading routes throughout the Mississippi valley this particular location was a hub of activity. Case in point - Across the Mississippi River to the east was the Yazoo tribe which had migrated from what is now the state of Washington in the far northwest USA. These mounds are a testament to the tenacity, ingenuity and cohesiveness of the indigenous peoples of this land, they were travelers, traders, craftsmen, medicine men, mathematicians, engineers, hunters and farmers, warriors and noblemen, also female leaders were noted in the very earliest Spanish manuscripts. There is a wealth of hidden information being withheld from an inquiring public which goes back in time which is awful, the Smithsonian is a major culprit. Each small discovery leads us to greater ones and a larger picture forms, the paradigm has to change. Let us deal with these facts and the hubris of academia be obliterated. The bigger question is, "What precisely are they hiding?" Thank you for this video!
I love this video. My dad and all my aunts and uncles grew up near here. I have visit this place twice and now I want to take my new wife up to visit the Roberts growing up days.
So many gems shown here and those plummets (1:39) look like perfect dowsing pendulums indeed! 3:06 many of these shapes reminded me of plasticine/clay. Particularly the round ones (e.g. 3:29) where irregularities seem to be made by a roll-shaping motion (someone's palms?). 20:43 So this place should be called Riches Point instead 😜 Truly appreciated the tour 😀
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Also, we don't know what plummets were used for. I found a quartzite plummet at a Tchefuncte Poverty Point site last week. It was bell shaped, which wouldn't have worked for dowsing. I wondered if it couldn't have been a tool for shaping the inside of clay vessels with the groove serving as a lanyard attachment. I'm going to recreate the plummet and try it. The most common find at my site, after bone, are Poverty Point Objects or "cooking balls". I saw a few in your video.
Plummets were most likely used as sinkers tied to fishing nets. Another video (better technically) said fish was the staple of the diet there. Clay balls and objects were used to cook in small pits as they held heat. Hugh is completely wrong about the clay objects being used as game pieces.
Very interesting! thank you. If your mound was for lightning, these metallic 'plummets' might be used for added effect. Highly charged and/or heated 'lightning rocks' would have been sensational. magic powers or what! It's also interesting that it's a low lying place as are the other guys across the Gulf of Mexico.
Poverty Point Objects look eerily similar to Harappan game pieces. Also, in the Indus are carnelian beaded jewelry that look strikingly similar to Native American Chest Plates. Coincidence? The mounds near Poverty Point at LSU are 11,000 years old so it begs the question, who sailed where taking mound and tell culture with them first? Extremely interesting!!!
If you're making a case for it to be the origin of the Mound Building culture, maybe the ringed formation is modeled on the city of Atlantis? Maybe this was "New Atlantis", a colony or outpost?
Equinox sunrise orientation would be directly east of the mound. More likely great mound iis oriented to Summer Solstice sunrise point, which is north of east.
Thanks for taking us here, Hugh. A couple of points...if the river has kept its approximate course, it would have represented the 'Serpent' - Milky Way. I am wondering if the arcs in the complex design were at one time complete circles mirroring the Northern stars circumnavigating the N. Pole? The 'north of east' alignment would point to the summer solstice sunrise and Moon's northernmost rising point on the horizon, as I am sure you know. The Bird (Cygnus-Spirit), Mother (Moon-Earth), Serpent (river-Milky Way), Father (sun) and Lightning (conception-incarnation) all represent Creation, as you say. The 'plummets' could have been used in ritual to charge up the e-m field to attract the lightning.
Avia Salter... I have read that a geologist has claimed evidence that the river has changed course, and destroyed part of the complete circle the mounds originally formed. I am sure the symbols you describe were integral to the construction of this site. I’ve also read that trade goods from all across the America’s have been found at the site. Indicating sophisticated trade systems being an important element of the culture living there.
The Birdseye view shows the original shape of the site...its a pregnant women body...folks, we have a giant tree seed here...these natives recognized it buried in the ground from the ancient past...and they restructured the water to enclose the seed....they were birthing a plant for the plan ...to the left of the "c" location in that time stamp...center of amphitheater...they would focus their energy in this spot.
Lots on this continent too of past civilizations prior to the planet orbit(s) changes and their resulting disasters. This is perhaps yet another nod to what was seen filling the sky, Earth's rings as part of the misty "celestial waters". The overlapping planetary plasma sheaths were also recorded in the petroglyphs world wide.
I wish i had a time machine!!! The smithy sonny robbed us all of some amazing history but i read and watch these videos and get a idea of some of the ancients greatness and advanced abilities!! So the smithysonian has failed to destroy it all or keep us from being interested!!!
Are there 59 mini-mounds? This is the right number to plot solar and lunar progression and forecast eclipses. Like the Aubrey Circle at Stonehenge. See 'Megalith Studies in Stone' page 171.
A great, quick tour of a site well deserving of more serious study and consideration. I agree wholeheartedly with the bad naming of this site and of the culture as it relates to our current language. Poverty Point and the Poverty Point culture needs a new name. It is degrading and unfortunate, literally.
Louisiana & Mississippi, South Eastern Texas, Southern Georgia and Alabama have always been the most poverty stricken sections of Anglo/ Colonial America even in current times. A hard place to scratch a living from the earth ( before exploitation of fossil fuels and lumber), The English language especially in the racist plagued southeast is very crude and even gutteral in it's phonetic delivery & confusing contexts. Yet this redneck speak makes for a good legal language because the same words/sounds can have so many different meanings hence the phrase "double speak" and with constant lying and a long history of non respect for non white human life in this part of the english speaking world as in the old cliche points out that "white man speaks with forked tongue" this area is still impoverished and thats the point of the namesake given. Like the name "Indian" used as a racial identity is a slanderous term to many indigenous peoples, when in fact most tribal names simply mean "the people"
Go to 9:28 of this video. I visited this site in 2021 and was immediately struck by what seemed obvious to me. Has anyone explored the possibility that this site originally a full circle, and the course of the river has washed it away over time to it's current semi-circular condition? How long ago was the course of the river further south to allow for this to be a full circle? That might help with the true dating of the site.
I always wonder why no Cyclopean type megaliths are ever found in North America, and I mean truly man-made, 1000-ton stones like in Baalbek and elsewhere. Perhaps the gigantic flows of the ice age mega floods buried them too deeply to be found?
Mystery Hill in NH used some pretty massive stones, but nothing like Baalbek or Sacsayhuaman. I imagine it was because they didn't have any large quarries within a reasonable distance. Cahokia was built with multicolored clay mined and transported from several other states, so it definitely wasn't because they were incapable of transporting a lot of weight.
No burials because it was the first? All others were more religious and representative of that one. The original was a tool/calendar type of thing so why associate it death? Maybe that’s why there’s no bones. The replicas from other cultures would have related it to other things and elevated to a point of wanting to be buried there
I can't help but wonder, has there ever truly been a serious attempt to excavate and understand the mound building cultures in a similar manner as was done with the Mayans, Olmechs or Egyptians? I don't believe so.
To change the unfortunate terminology, "poverty point people" i suggest changing the words around - how about, "the people of poverty point?" This way the people are separated from the name of the place. The same has been done with the term, "slave." We now use, "enslaved African" or "enslaved people of African decent," more words, yes but i think everyone is willing for the greater good.
Yes absolutely! I was just about to make this comment, but you did it first. They look identical to those stones found in Scotland and other ancient places, and the way that they find them in random locations indicates to me that it was probably a game that they played and the stones that we find in random spots are probably the ones that accidentally got lost while they were playing the game. The random patterns on the stones also feels like they were probably just on designed to help your fingers grip, and to be able to tell the difference between your stone and your opponents stones.
Who are the people and where are they now? I will answer that for you. Reclassified as Black and “African American”. Maybe y’all could add that into the research.
The Olmec were Polynesians. You're giving our Indians too much credit. They were very religious "cultish" people. They were also vain, just like we are today, and enjoyed trends. At one time, mound building was the trend. Later, someone built a truncated mound so everyone else followed suit. It's my belief, that the mounds which dot our country, were built entirely by women. My ancestor was a captive of the brutal Shawnee in the 1760's. He recalled that his "Indian life" was the finest time of his life. He was fifteen. The women did ALL of the work and the men napped, fished, & hunted when they wanted. I believe it was the same way back when.
It would be great if the site could be renamed with a suitable Native American name. The local natives would belong to a later culture but they could come up with some name respecting the peoples who were there before.
Could Have the Ptolemys killed the Mayans? If you add the though of the Illinois cave to poverty point, you could assume that Cleopatra's Children for Mark Anthony came to the The American Mayan Civilisation; and there were some American Indian tribes that were associated with the Ptolemaic Empire.
The trade routes of the Great White Road which ran along the length of the entire Gulf Coast plus with all the inland waterway trading routes throughout the Mississippi valley this particular location was a hub of activity. Case in point - Across the Mississippi River to the east was the Yazoo tribe which had migrated from what is now the state of Washington in the far northwest USA. These mounds are a testament to the tenacity, ingenuity and cohesiveness of the indigenous peoples of this land, they were travelers, traders, craftsmen, medicine men, mathematicians, engineers, hunters and farmers, warriors and noblemen, also female leaders were noted in the very earliest Spanish manuscripts. There is a wealth of hidden information being withheld from an inquiring public which goes back in time which is awful, the Smithsonian is a major culprit. Each small discovery leads us to greater ones and a larger picture forms, the paradigm has to change. Let us deal with these facts and the hubris of academia be obliterated. The bigger question is, "What precisely are they hiding?" Thank you for this video!
Thank you! I am incredibly interested.
That was fun to watch! I live about an hour away from this site. I haven’t been in years. Now I can’t wait to go back!
About to do all the caddoan sites in ok/ak/tx, this is on my list after that!
I love this video. My dad and all my aunts and uncles grew up near here. I have visit this place twice and now I want to take my new wife up to visit the Roberts growing up days.
Great video! Just the right length, just enough detail and great overview of the site.
Very good. Interesting artifacts. Awesome site.
So many gems shown here and those plummets (1:39) look like perfect dowsing pendulums indeed! 3:06 many of these shapes reminded me of plasticine/clay. Particularly the round ones (e.g. 3:29) where irregularities seem to be made by a roll-shaping motion (someone's palms?).
20:43 So this place should be called Riches Point instead 😜 Truly appreciated the tour 😀
@@indivestor well then, I must have gone to the future to watch!
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Or could it be that I'm one of those rare "twonks" supporting Megalithomania through Patreon and getting earlier access?
I'll let you decide 😜
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The plummets are carved from iron ores (not sure about novaculite) They might have been used for holding fishing nets down. Better than regular stone
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Also, we don't know what plummets were used for. I found a quartzite plummet at a Tchefuncte Poverty Point site last week. It was bell shaped, which wouldn't have worked for dowsing. I wondered if it couldn't have been a tool for shaping the inside of clay vessels with the groove serving as a lanyard attachment. I'm going to recreate the plummet and try it. The most common find at my site, after bone, are Poverty Point Objects or "cooking balls". I saw a few in your video.
Plummets were most likely used as sinkers tied to fishing nets. Another video (better technically) said fish was the staple of the diet there. Clay balls and objects were used to cook in small pits as they held heat. Hugh is completely wrong about the clay objects being used as game pieces.
Excellent video on Poverty Point.
Very interesting! thank you. If your mound was for lightning, these metallic 'plummets' might be used for added effect. Highly charged and/or heated 'lightning rocks' would have been sensational. magic powers or what! It's also interesting that it's a low lying place as are the other guys across the Gulf of Mexico.
I saw paw prints in some of those stones at the start… definitely part of some game… soon as I saw them I thought of something like bocce
Poverty Point Objects look eerily similar to Harappan game pieces. Also, in the Indus are carnelian beaded jewelry that look strikingly similar to Native American Chest Plates. Coincidence? The mounds near Poverty Point at LSU are 11,000 years old so it begs the question, who sailed where taking mound and tell culture with them first? Extremely interesting!!!
If you're making a case for it to be the origin of the Mound Building culture, maybe the ringed formation is modeled on the city of Atlantis? Maybe this was "New Atlantis", a colony or outpost?
Thank you! We need more done in North America. Look forward to learning more.
Another interesting and pleasant episode.
Do you and/or JJ have any lectures lined up for later this year? How has the virus situation affected you?
3:15 The orbs look a lot like Scotland's carved stone balls, but less advanced.
Those giant bone needles look like they could be used for weaving fishing nets. If you’ve ever made lace you’ll see what I mean!
Equinox sunrise orientation would be directly east of the mound. More likely great mound iis oriented to Summer Solstice sunrise point, which is north of east.
Thanks for taking us here, Hugh. A couple of points...if the river has kept its approximate course, it would have represented the 'Serpent' - Milky Way. I am wondering if the arcs in the complex design were at one time complete circles mirroring the Northern stars circumnavigating the N. Pole? The 'north of east' alignment would point to the summer solstice sunrise and Moon's northernmost rising point on the horizon, as I am sure you know. The Bird (Cygnus-Spirit), Mother (Moon-Earth), Serpent (river-Milky Way), Father (sun) and Lightning (conception-incarnation) all represent Creation, as you say. The 'plummets' could have been used in ritual to charge up the e-m field to attract the lightning.
Avia Salter...
I have read that a geologist has claimed evidence that the river has changed course, and destroyed part of the complete circle the mounds originally formed. I am sure the symbols you describe were integral to the construction of this site. I’ve also read that trade goods from all across the America’s have been found at the site. Indicating sophisticated trade systems being an important element of the culture living there.
Good observations. It is built over a gas and oil deposit and salt dome.
you nailed it man! The head of the decapitated pregnant corpse is just to the north. The face where the eye is montley mound! Its the answer!
Graham Hancock's book "America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization" brought me here. So wonderful to see it in video!
Those square and rectangle nodules, remind me of the ball-like ones in the UK.
The Birdseye view shows the original shape of the site...its a pregnant women body...folks, we have a giant tree seed here...these natives recognized it buried in the ground from the ancient past...and they restructured the water to enclose the seed....they were birthing a plant for the plan ...to the left of the "c" location in that time stamp...center of amphitheater...they would focus their energy in this spot.
Great video
Great video. I've never been to Poverty Point.
Lots on this continent too of past civilizations prior to the planet orbit(s) changes and their resulting disasters. This is perhaps yet another nod to what was seen filling the sky, Earth's rings as part of the misty "celestial waters". The overlapping planetary plasma sheaths were also recorded in the petroglyphs world wide.
The rings in the mound do look like waves when rain drops in a body of water
Amazing!
6:44 kinda looks like a smaller version of the giant face of Guatemala that was destroyed n lost
As a civil engineering student, plummets wasn’t in our vocabulary. Plum bobs, yes. Etymology is a grand science.
I'm willing to bet that there was no bayou's or waterways near the site 4,000 years ago.
These earthworks reminds me of an ancient greek theater.Is it possible that Greeks have gone to the Americas in the antiquity?
I wish i had a time machine!!! The smithy sonny robbed us all of some amazing history but i read and watch these videos and get a idea of some of the ancients greatness and advanced abilities!! So the smithysonian has failed to destroy it all or keep us from being interested!!!
I can't help but wonder, where the hell did they haul all the dirt from?
Are there 59 mini-mounds?
This is the right number to plot solar and lunar progression and forecast eclipses. Like the Aubrey Circle at Stonehenge.
See 'Megalith Studies in Stone' page 171.
Plumbobs,used to mark points in an area.Hope it is spelt correctly
A great, quick tour of a site well deserving of more serious study and consideration. I agree wholeheartedly with the bad naming of this site and of the culture as it relates to our current language. Poverty Point and the Poverty Point culture needs a new name. It is degrading and unfortunate, literally.
Louisiana & Mississippi, South Eastern Texas, Southern Georgia and Alabama have always been the most poverty stricken sections of Anglo/ Colonial America even in current times. A hard place to scratch a living from the earth ( before exploitation of fossil fuels and lumber), The English language especially in the racist plagued southeast is very crude and even gutteral in it's phonetic delivery & confusing contexts. Yet this redneck speak makes for a good legal language because the same words/sounds can have so many different meanings hence the phrase "double speak" and with constant lying and a long history of non respect for non white human life in this part of the english speaking world as in the old cliche points out that "white man speaks with forked tongue" this area is still impoverished and thats the point of the namesake given. Like the name "Indian" used as a racial identity is a slanderous term to many indigenous peoples, when in fact most tribal names simply mean "the people"
Go to 9:28 of this video. I visited this site in 2021 and was immediately struck by what seemed obvious to me. Has anyone explored the possibility that this site originally a full circle, and the course of the river has washed it away over time to it's current semi-circular condition? How long ago was the course of the river further south to allow for this to be a full circle? That might help with the true dating of the site.
Electric sun novas every 12,000 years and zaps the Earth. The Thunderbolts Project agrees with Megalith research.
I always wonder why no Cyclopean type megaliths are ever found in North America, and I mean truly man-made, 1000-ton stones like in Baalbek and elsewhere. Perhaps the gigantic flows of the ice age mega floods buried them too deeply to be found?
Mystery Hill in NH used some pretty massive stones, but nothing like Baalbek or Sacsayhuaman. I imagine it was because they didn't have any large quarries within a reasonable distance. Cahokia was built with multicolored clay mined and transported from several other states, so it definitely wasn't because they were incapable of transporting a lot of weight.
I think the balls and things were used for cooking in the ground.
No burials because it was the first? All others were more religious and representative of that one.
The original was a tool/calendar type of thing so why associate it death? Maybe that’s why there’s no bones.
The replicas from other cultures would have related it to other things and elevated to a point of wanting to be buried there
Those objects just after the faces u showed look like squashed and pumpkins
I can't help but wonder, has there ever truly been a serious attempt to excavate and understand the mound building cultures in a similar manner as was done with the Mayans, Olmechs or Egyptians?
I don't believe so.
This is the land of the giants. Miners of metal for world export
Fully Fullerton of course
To change the unfortunate terminology, "poverty point people" i suggest changing the words around - how about, "the people of poverty point?" This way the people are separated from the name of the place. The same has been done with the term, "slave." We now use, "enslaved African" or "enslaved people of African decent," more words, yes but i think everyone is willing for the greater good.
Maybe an old sphynx by shape
Bars and Tablets not Tables! Lol. Plummets are magnetized from being made. Rubbing etc. Plummets were loom weights.
you look baked ,Hugh
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Loom weights.
They look like the Scottish shaped stones
Yes absolutely! I was just about to make this comment, but you did it first. They look identical to those stones found in Scotland and other ancient places, and the way that they find them in random locations indicates to me that it was probably a game that they played and the stones that we find in random spots are probably the ones that accidentally got lost while they were playing the game. The random patterns on the stones also feels like they were probably just on designed to help your fingers grip, and to be able to tell the difference between your stone and your opponents stones.
@@kylerichard7459 that’s a very good observation.
Who are the people and where are they now? I will answer that for you. Reclassified as Black and “African American”.
Maybe y’all could add that into the research.
You are correct!!!
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Dear New Human, the stumpy statues look like they are kneeling down.
Hugh is Olmec
Red black and white ? Atlantis colors
The Olmec were Polynesians. You're giving our Indians too much credit. They were very religious "cultish" people. They were also vain, just like we are today, and enjoyed trends. At one time, mound building was the trend. Later, someone built a truncated mound so everyone else followed suit. It's my belief, that the mounds which dot our country, were built entirely by women. My ancestor was a captive of the brutal Shawnee in the 1760's. He recalled that his "Indian life" was the finest time of his life. He was fifteen. The women did ALL of the work and the men napped, fished, & hunted when they wanted. I believe it was the same way back when.
You're wrong the Olmec DNA exists now.
They are indigenous to North America
The sun gives life, the creator made the sun (Native American)
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It would be great if the site could be renamed with a suitable Native American name. The local natives would belong to a later culture but they could come up with some name respecting the peoples who were there before.
Agreed
Could Have the Ptolemys killed the Mayans? If you add the though of the Illinois cave to poverty point, you could assume that Cleopatra's Children for Mark Anthony came to the The American Mayan Civilisation; and there were some American Indian tribes that were associated with the Ptolemaic Empire.
There isn't any "Olmec connection"
Plumb bobs. Archeture tools.
If there were giants there would be huge arrowheads huge arrows huge Spears.
Until then you people should stop talking about Giants
First, give me all of your money. Pounds, of dollars.
Why the creepy music? Or any music for that matter. $HOWBU$INE$$?
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