Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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As mysterious as Stonehenge is Poverty Point, a collection of large mounds built by hunters and gatherers over three thousand years ago in Louisiana. Archaeologist T.R. Kidder asks the question, "How (and why) was it built?"

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